The son of an elderly woman who was conned out of tens of thousands by her friend has this month called for an overhaul of Power of Attorney laws. Margaret Rigby, from Kent, had assumed responsibility for Barbara Lewis’ finances after her friend was...
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has this month published a white paper setting out draft legislation to open up the right to develop and operate onshore electricity transmission assets. According to the white paper, transmission assets...
A bank manager who thrived in selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) has been awarded £7,500 for wrongful dismissal after she struggled to settle into a new banking culture. Lynne Adams, a former senior personal banking manager with the TSB, had...
A survey by the Family Mediators Association (FMA) has revealed that separating and divorcing couple are struggling to access the information they need to help them make informed decisions about their family and financial issues during what is already a...
An increasing number of pensioners are avoiding leaving hospital because of fears about the spiralling cost of care home fees. Figures published this month show that a growing number of elderly people are refusing to be discharged, even though they are...
An employment tribunal involving a school at the heart of the Trojan Horse affair has ended with judges upholding a claim for unfair dismissal by one teaching assistant while rejecting related cases by her three Muslim colleagues. The tribunal heard claims...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched a consultation to ensure that regulation in the energy sector encourages innovation and to get industry views on the effectiveness of current regulatory innovation. The consultation, which runs...
The Court of Protection has ruled that a third party should take over responsibility for the financial affairs of a woman who previously had a frontal lobotomy to treat schizophrenia. The elderly individual, who has not been named, underwent the procedure...
According to the latest figures from the Department for Education (DfE), approximately 70,000 children in the UK currently live in care and the number is set to rise, prompting calls for more foster families. The number is the highest recorded over the...
The UK Government is expected to make shale gas exploration even easier for energy companies by scrapping the requirement for planning permission to be in place before exploration work can be carried out. Despite the fact that drilling boreholes and...
A woman has been denied the right to take control of her elderly father’s finances amid fears she was exerting “undue influence” over him. The Court of Protection agreed that there were unanswered questions about the daughter’s...
In a recent Court of Appeal case, Lady Justice Black revealed that a three-year-old girl was at the centre of 17 family court hearings, due to ongoing legal action by her separated parents. The girl’s mother and father, from the midlands, had been...
The average cost of care home fees has risen by almost 25 per cent in the space of 12 months, recent figures have revealed. League tables show that the bills for both residential and nursing care have increased dramatically. This is thought to be, in part,...