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New Public Guardian promises to improve processing of LPAs- Legal ruling gives new rights to Britain's six million carers
Most HMO landlords have now applied for licences
Sanctions against employing illegal workers start to take effect- Court ruling makes it easier to evict tenants with criminal records
- More women setting up businesses but they still lag behind the men
- Agency workers to get equal treatment after 12 weeks
- Manufacturer takes legal action to protect its trademark
- New guide to speeding up planning partnerships
- Companies to be named and shamed for hiring illegal workers
- OFT approves estate agents redress scheme
- Buy to let rises above the credit storm
- UK retains right for people to work more than 48 hours a week
- Accountancy firm wins appeal to strike out £88m negligence claim
- Man awarded £44,000 compensation for wrist fracture
- Court sets aside liability for inheritance tax
Appeal Court grants cohabitee a share of house- More parents to get the right to request flexible working
- Father granted unsupervised contact with his son
- Elderly sisters lose battle to change inheritance tax rules
- Injured motorcyclist awarded damages and care costs for life
- Pre-nuptial agreements could become legally binding following review
- Rising dementia figures highlight value of powers of attorney
- Housing article
- The danger in not following company articles of association
- Equality bill to promote equal pay and ban age discrimination
- Appeal Court rules in favour of father subjected to gay taunting
- Discrimination by association ruled unlawful
- Britain to opt in to new EU Regulation on contract disputes
- Father in gay taunting case gets support from Equality Commission
- Private rented sector to outstrip other types of investment property
- Butchers prosecuted for failing to pay minimum wage
- Encouraging staff to opt out of pension scheme to be banned
- Businessmen jailed for cartel offences
- Man who worked 25 years for nothing loses claim to inherit farm
- Delay can be costly when making a claim
- Both fathers and mothers must be named on birth certificates
- Tribunal decision could help bar and restaurant workers
- Appeal Court ruling could help victims of hit and run drivers
- EU votes to end opt-out from 48-hour maximum working week
- Landlords and letting agents could face new regulation system
- EU wants to simplify rules on mergers and divisions
- OFT to assess the process of buying and selling homes
- Persistent flouting of planning regulations leads to loss of tenancy
- Landlord loses appeal over failure to consult with tenants
- House owner not entitled to tear down fence that encroached on her land
- Husband wins appeal against excessive divorce settlement
- HIPs to provide more information for home buyers
- Oral agreement over pension rights fails to stand up in court
- Neighbours stop house extension that would spoil scenic views
- Add a little will power to your New Year resolutions list
- Man awarded nearly £3,000 after tripping on pavement
- Avoid the legal pitfalls if you rent out your home
- Changes to inheritance thresholds highlight need to make a will
- Know your rights if redundancy threatens
- Childline reveals anguish of children as parents divorce
- Homeowner wins dispute over unfair contract terms of builder
- Family lawyers oppose ‘draconian’ measures against absent parents
- More money made available to help first time homebuyers
- 12-year-old car accident victim receives £2.3m compensation
- Staff on long term sick leave qualify for full holiday entitlement
- Battling to save a failing business can put directors at risk
- Tougher penalties for safety offences come into force
- OFT persuades company to amend the terms of lease agreements
- Creditors to get more information about firms in pre-pack administration
- Builders win dispute with contractor over payments
- New tribunal award limits come into force
- Guide to making a will
- Guide to Making a Lasting Power of Attorney
- Northern Rock to pump £14bn into new mortgage lending
- Mother with shared residence order cannot relocate with daughter
- Victim of workplace sexist abuse awarded £9,000 pounds
- Financial crisis means ‘many wills now out of date’
- Family courts to come under more public scrutiny
- Economic downturn creates extra problems for divorcing couples
- Redundant worker compensated for loss of final salary pension benefits
- Factory owner successful in right to light case
- Injured motorcyclist receives £450,000 in compensation
- Injured motorcyclist receives £450,000 in compensation
Sharp rise in number of companies taking legal action over debts- Ruling makes it harder for disabled employees to claim discrimination
- Failure to follow lease provisions costs landlord £263,117
- A new way to tackle ‘Coke Cola’ style copycat branding
- Man who resigned then changed his mind loses unfair dismissal claim
- Firm wins compensation from agent for loss of business
- Employees will be able to request time off for training
- Two directors must pay for dishonesty of their brother
- Much criticised dispute resolution procedures are repealed
- Builders merchants were partners despite lack of written agreement
- Landlord wins appeal over validity of notice to end lease
- European court says compulsory retirement age must be justified
- Statutory holiday entitlement increases
- Now it is cheaper and easier to register Lasting Powers of Attorney
- HIPs now needed as soon as a property is put on the market
- Husband tried to use bankruptcy to avoid maintenance payments
- Teacher wins constructive dismissal case
- Father granted residency of his children during school term time
- Minister urges councils to right the wrong of unequal pay
- Woman who fell on shop staircase awarded damages
- Equality Bill outlines new approach to tackling discrimination
- Buy to let sentiment improves as landlords acquire more properties
- Court rules that a company shareholder can also be an employee
- Britain retains the right to opt out from 48-hour maximum working week
- Directors must pay up despite adviser’s lack of success
- Tougher powers to enforce minimum wage come into effect
- More than 65 firms a day are going out of business
- More parents to get the right to request flexible working
- Britain retains the right to opt out from 48-hour maximum working week
- Tougher powers to enforce minimum wage comes into effect
- New Bill will modernise rules relating to trusts
- Businessman hit by recession fails to reduce divorce settlement
- Man who worked 30 years for nothing finally inherits farm
- Safeguards put in place as family courts are opened to the media
- OFT to review process of buying and selling homes
- Accident victim receives £1.2m compensation for her injuries
- Employers given more scope when making redundancies
- Make sure you don’t pay too much for your Home Information Pack
- Many Britons are relying on inheritance to fund their retirement
- New Bill intended to improve protection for cohabiting couples
- Wife inherits husband’s estate despite family challenge to his will
- Judge was wrong to separate eight-year-old boy from his mother
- Court of Appeal ruling increases scope for bringing equal pay claims
- More protection for vulnerable people in care homes and hospitals
- Boy bitten by dog awarded compensation
- Landlords and letting agents face stricter regulations
- Partners could be personally liable for business debts
- Buyers of farm lose appeal over breach of contract
- Former franchisee broke restrictive covenant
- Eleven major companies sign up to prompt payment code
- Employers to be named and shamed if they default on tribunal awards
- Recession hit developers to be given more time and greater flexibility
- Lords committee rejects plan to harmonise contract law in Europe
- Small businesses spending £12bn a year on compliance
- Healthcare firm recovers cost of building access road
- Right to rescind leasehold sale contracts must be exercised promptly
- Changes to insolvency law could provide lifeline for struggling companies
- Employers need to adjust to Lords’ ruling on holiday entitlement
- Male workers win same equal pay deal as female colleagues
- More guidance on Home Information Packs
- Children win the right to inherit estate from their ‘delusional’ mother
- Gay postman awarded £2,400 in discrimination case
- Why it pays to be reasonable when a relationship breaks down
- Mother wins appeal over where her son should live
- Driver receives £100,000 for arm injuries sustained in hospital
- High Court rules that Foxton terms are unfair to landlords
- Bank of England says mortgage approvals at 14-month high
- Appeal Court ruling gives extra weight to pre-nuptial agreements
- Directors breached their duties when buying property
- New LPA forms make it easier to protect your future
- Rules for administering wills and probate to be revised
- Father retains the right to have contact with his daughter
- Delay proves costly for women making equal pay claim
- Woman awarded damages for hearing loss caused at work
- Patient receives compensation after gauze left in surgical wound
- Steep rise in tribunal claims poses a threat to employers
- College not bound by 70 year old restrictive covenant
- Company entitled to damages from director who set up rival firm
- Government announces timetable for new planning regime
- More firms taking legal action to recover debts
- Tenant’s notice to exercise break clause was not valid
- Government looks again at disclosure of directors’ loans
- Firm fails to impose ban on former director canvassing customers
- Company ‘cannot bring damages claim arising out of its own fraud’
- Email correspondence did not add up to a ‘binding contract’
- Company wins damages against fraudulent project manager
- Tenant’s notice to exercise break clause was not valid
- Funding of care for the elderly comes under scrutiny
- Receptionist in age discrimination case receives £6,000
- Husband wins appeal over divorce settlement which judge miscalculated
- Father wins appeal to have contact case heard by a different judge
- Court restores will in favour of elderly woman’s family
- Bill to provide legal protection for cohabiting couples is withdrawn
- Man awarded damages after tripping on loose stones
- New Companies Act measures will impact on directors
- Default retirement age of 65 remains lawful – for the time being
- Construction firms fined a total of £129m for rigging bids
- Company wins damages from employee who set up rival business
- Shop owners win appeal against refusal of planning permission
- OFT wants wider use of director disqualification orders
- A lease cannot be ignored just because it is badly drafted
- More than a third of pre-pack administrations fail to comply
- Office of Fair Trading investigates retirement home exit fees
- Woman not entitled to a share of her former partner’s farm
- Authority ‘dismissed employee to avoid funding early retirement’
- Wills could be affected by rising care home fees
- Rising dementia figures highlight the need for Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Victim of racial discrimination awarded £111,600 compensation
- Government looks for a more civilised approach to divorce
- Recycling collector injured by exploding wheel receives £10,000
- New rules could provide more choice over inheritance planning
- Moves to improve the process of buying and selling homes
- Judge was wrong to transfer children’s residence to their father
- Make sure you get a fair settlement if you are made redundant
- Now it is even easier to protect your future with an LPA
- Carer inherits MS sufferer’s estate despite challenge from his son
- Woman awarded £35,000 compensation for road accident injuries
- Director fined £17,500 for failing to meet legal obligations
- Property company was entitled to charge for deed of variation
- Construction firm wins compensation from ‘negligent’ consultants
- New procedure for forming limited partnerships takes effect
- Improved rights for agency workers put back until 2011
- 43-storey tower can go ahead despite ‘harming’ Somerset House
- Recruitment agencies fined £39.27m for boycott and price fixing
- CAB backs move to reduce time limit for debt recovery
- Grandmother wins legal battle over the care of her grandson
- Cohabiting couples could be granted improved inheritance rights
- Council workers win age discrimination appeal
- New Act will modernise rules relating to trusts
- Covenant prevents homeowner extending his property
- Victims of discrimination could receive £30,000 for injured feelings
- Separated couples urged not to spoil Christmas for their children
- Woman receives compensation after walking into glass panel
- Bank ordered to install a lift for disabled customer
- Car valeters set alarm bells ringing for employers
- Distributor must pay £125,000 damages for breach of contract
- Consultation begins on amendments to Companies Act measures
- Tenant wins professional negligence claim against surveyor
- Government considers £500,000 penalties for data protection breaches
- Late payments still a major headache despite slight improvement
- Director personally responsible for paying a company debt
- Fears over red tape ‘prevent businesses expanding’
- Who pays when actual costs exceed the estimates in the contract?
- Landlord loses appeal over repossession of premises
- Crane owners can not avoid responsibility for their negligence
- OFT investigates high cost of corporate insolvency
- Local authority fails to stop green belt development
- Should a company ‘sign’ or ‘execute’ a leasehold enfranchisement notice?
- Equality Bill introduces protection against ‘dual discrimination’
- Unqualified will writers putting families at risk
- Home loans at highest level for nearly two years
- Court of Protection rules to be made clearer and simpler
- Huge rise in number of employees claiming unfair dismissal
- Chancellor scraps plan to increase inheritance tax threshold
- Unmarried couples ‘need more legal protection’
- Father can continue to seek contact with his children
- How victims of uninsured drivers can still claim compensation
- Company directors disqualified following regulatory breaches
- Businesses facing ‘a blizzard of fresh red tape and taxes’
- High Court provides boost for creditors pursuing debts
- Land Registry urges property owners to protect against fraud
- Buy to let mortgages could soon be regulated by the FSA
- Employers entitled to set maximum age for firefighters
- Parents should be careful when helping their children buy a home
- Firms could face £500,000 fines for data protection breaches
- Planning fees frozen to help developers
- New team to tackle minimum wage abuses
- Date set for introducing new regulations relating to trusts
- Green paper offers new hope to ‘heroic’ grandparents
- ‘Insane delusions’ caused man to disinherit his relatives
- Dismissed police officer reinstated after a gap of five years
- Neighbour dispute costs restaurant owner £160,000
- Woman not entitled to a share of her former partner’s home
- Man injured by friend’s careless ‘horseplay’ awarded £1.8m
- Landlords will need written agreements for all tenancies
- Multi-million pound fines may be imposed for corporate manslaughter
- Development can proceed after covenants declared unenforceable
- Court order prevents Foxtons from using certain terms and conditions
- BA employee loses discrimination claim over wearing of a cross
- New rights for agency workers
- Use it or lose it - hotel trademark revoked
- Firms urged to follow public sector example and pay promptly
- Landlords will need written agreements for all tenancies
- BA employee loses discrimination claim over wearing of a cross
- New rights for agency workers
- Wealthy divorcee must pay £5m to husband hit by the recession
- Time to ‘shake up’ the buying and selling of houses?
- Women win equal pay claim against local authority
- Wills reveal people’s good intentions
- Boy burned his passport so he could stay with his father
- Lasting powers of attorney can help protect your future
- Parents will be able to share time off with new baby
- Security guard awarded £289 000 for hand injury
- Director wins right to buy out colleague who acted unfairly
- New ‘fit note’ system gets underway
- Accountants held liable for their missing partner’s losses
- Assured Shorthold Tenancy threshold ‘rising to £100,000’
- The challenge of starting a new business
- Government cuts cost of extending planning permissions
- New regulations outlaw blacklisting of trade union members
- Government drops plan to reduce time limit for debt recovery
- Landlord wins appeal over altering charges
- Stamp duty threshold doubled for first-time home buyers
- Pre-nup agreements come under Supreme Court spotlight
- Judge erred in favour of baby’s father in family proceedings
- Hospital workers win discrimination claim over bonus payments
- Husband didn’t reveal affair to wife when remortgaging home
- Chancellor freezes inheritance tax threshold for next four years
- Sons successfully challenge their father’s second will
- Family compensated after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at hotel
- How should employers deal with staff stranded by volcano crisis?
- Divorcee awarded £215,000 - 25 years after separation
- Print firm wins damages after receiving negligent advice
- Bribery Act introduces new offences and 10-year jail terms
- Landlord must pay damages to tenant for wrongful eviction
- Businessmen win damages for breach of confidentiality agreement
- New right to request time for training comes into effect
- Firms using unscrupulous tricks to delay paying invoices
- Landlord ‘entitled to vary service charges’ for leaseholders
- Nearly a third of estate agent HIPs found to be ‘unsatisfactory’
- Overworked manager receives £110,000 after suffering from stress
- Beware – not all will writers are qualified solicitors
- Father wins appeal to make judge reconsider child contact case
- New legislation relating to trusts comes into effect
- Gay employee wins harassment and unfair dismissal claims
- Mother-of-three awarded £55,000 for road accident injuries
- New Government promises to cut red tape for businesses
- Director of insolvent film company found guilty of wrongful trading
- Hotel wins damages because IT system ‘not fit for purpose’
- Will World Cup ‘sickies’ hit your business?
- Businessmen win £427,500 damages from valuers
- Mistake over consultation costs property company £270,000
- New regime means FSA may treble fines for rule breakers
- Workers get more help to make employers pay tribunal awards
- Scrapping HIPs will ‘help boost the housing market’
- Court ruling could help many grandparent carers
- Homeowners lose boundary dispute because of adverse possession
- Most workers not aware of employment and redundancy rights
- UK opts out of European proposals on wills and cross border estates
- Homesick mother allowed to take her daughter to live abroad
- NHS manager awarded a total of £187,000 in ageism case
- Car crash victim awarded £500,000 for burns and injuries
- Government scraps plans to tighten regulations on private rented sector
- More than £62 billion now owed in overdue invoices
- Builder’s warning about faults not enough to avoid liability
- Commercial tenant failed to exercise break clause correctly
- Council wrong to refuse planning permission for housing development
- Minister introduces action plan to cut red tape
- Small firms are losing £5 billion to insolvent trading partners
- Firms must guard against flimsy discrimination claims
- Man wins half share of ex-partner’s home – 17 years after separation
- Fresh evidence gives father new hope for contact with his son
- Housing market experts want to reform home buying process
- Woman leaves £250,000 to taxi driver in her will
- Better rights for grandparents as Government sets up families task force
- Neighbours see red over colour of boundary railings
- Will your insurers pay up if catastrophe strikes?
- Motorcyclist injured in collision receives £250,000 compensation
- Default Retirement Age to be scrapped from next year
- Government confirms October start date for Equality Act
- Father fails to prove he was in partnership with his son
- Technical error prevents business tenant from terminating lease
- More flexibility for developers over zero carbon homes
- Tougher approach to licensing as Home Office takes full control
- SMEs waiting even longer for invoices to be settled
- Secretly obtained documents can not be used in divorce cases
- Forced retirement at 65 to be scrapped
- Father who owes £78,000 maintenance prevented from selling home
- More protection against discrimination in shops and workplace
- Neighbour dispute settled by assessing the lie of the land
- New tax regime could ‘impact on trusts and wills’
- Abolition of HIPs ‘tempts sellers’ back into housing market
- Have your say on how to improve the family justice system
- Injury victims subjected to ‘shameful pressure’ from insurers
- Developer who stopped work because of recession must pay damages
- High handed tenant must pay damages to property company
- OFT warns against legal action outside a debtor’s home jurisdiction
