More than ten years after their initial divorce, the wife of a self-made fashion mogul has been granted a £2.7million divorce settlement. Teachers Glen and Nicola Briers first divorced in 2002, following 18 years of marriage and three children...
The Government has announced the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay from 2 April 2017. The figures were published on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) website on Monday. The current...
New research suggests that more than half of the UK’s electricity was sourced from low-carbon and renewable energy sources between July and September. The news, which comes shortly after Good Energy launched Britain’s first ever renewable energy...
Miss Liddington worked with 2gether NHS Foundation Trust as a Community Practitioner. She complained that having made a safeguarding referral in relation to patient care issues at a private care home, someone at the home subsequently complained about the...
A campaign group has said that people can’t afford to put off setting their affairs in order. Toby Scott, from the Dying Matters coalition, this month told The Guardian that a general discomfort around discussing dying deterred many people from making...
The Government is under increasing pressure to review legislation which prevents heterosexual couples from entering into civil partnerships, after it was presented with a petition signed by over 70,000 people last week. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and...
The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) and Dedicated Highways (Landowner Statements and Declarations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1081) (“the 2016 Regulations”) were made on 9th November 2016 and...
A former BT worker has been awarded £31,000 compensation after being unfairly dismissed from his job due to claims that he was discriminatory towards another employee. Roderick Wilson, from Dundee, worked for the telecoms giant between 1998 and...
Business-led clean energy coalition group RE100 is calling upon the European Union (EU) to deliver a series of “transformational changes” to energy policy, in order to help firms meet their individual renewable energy targets. The calls come...
There has been a significant increase in the number of people putting arrangements in place for a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA). Data released this week following a Freedom of Information request by a pension company has revealed that more than 440,000...
If a final written warning was found to be manifestly inappropriate such that the employer ought to ignore it when considering further misconduct, is it open to the Employment Tribunal (ET) to consider whether dismissal would have been fair if only a written...
An employment tribunal held that a food company employee was fairly dismissed after she refused to work overtime in the run-up to Christmas. In Edwards v Bramble Foods Ltd , the Tribunal ruled that the claimant’s protests at being asked to work...
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling upon the Government’s recently-formed Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to provide ‘greater clarity’ on how the UK intends to shape future energy policy and...
A woman has issued a stark warning about the dangers of people using unregulated Will writers to set their affairs in order. Esther Guy said that she used a firm to draft a Will and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), unaware that they weren’t regulated....
The United Nations (UN) and a number of charity groups have argued that the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement, which took effect late last week, is “not enough” to effectively tackle climate change. The Agreement, which provides a legal...
New English language requirements for public-sector workers in customer-facing roles come into force on 21 November 2016, it has been announced. Following the publication of provisions under the Immigration Act 2016, workers must be sufficiently fluent in...
Concerns have been raised that more than half of British adults with dependent children are yet to make a Will. A survey conducted by Will Aid suggests that 53 per cent of mums and dads have failed to put their affairs in order. Given that around 40,000...
A UK heterosexual couple fighting for the right to enter into a civil partnership will take their case to the Court of Appeal next month, following a defeat at the High Court in January. Academics Charles Keidan, 40 and Rebecca Steinfeld, 35, say that they...
The Living Wage Foundation has today announced a 20p increase in its pay rate, representing a 3.7 per cent rise in wages for employees. The voluntary pay rate, which is not associated with the Government’s mandatory National Living Wage (NLW), has...