The statutory holiday entitlement is changing from 1st April 2009. The holiday entitlement increased to 4.8 weeks (20-24 days for those working a 5 day week) from 1 October 2007. This will further increase to 5.6 weeks (28 days a year for those working 5...
Frettens Solictors have pledged our support to Round Table Children’s Wish and nominated the organisation as our ‘charity of the year’. We have a number of projects in place to help raise funds for the charity through out 2009. RTCW...
The Employment Act 2008 will make changes to the way in which payment of the National Minimum Wage is enforced. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers will be given wider powers of investigation and restrictions are removed on the exchange of information...
Frettens Solicitors recently dealt with a case where their client, a builder, instructed them to recover an unpaid invoice, which was unfortunately unrecoverable because of an absent clause in the builder’s contract with their customer. Frettens warn...
The Employment Act 2008 repeals the statutory dispute resolution procedures and related provisions dealing with procedural unfairness in dismissal cases. In their place will be a revised voluntary Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Code of...
Divorced and separating couples often find it difficult to agree access rights to their children. It can be very difficult for a parent with the day to day care of a child to release that child into the care of the other parent unsupervised. That difficulty...
At Frettens, we want to help people facing divorce to get the information, guidance or process they need when they most need it. We work with likeminded professional contacts and coaches and they have set up a brief survey to support this. If you have been...
We are regularly asked about what happens when a couple divorces and they own a house in joint names, but the person who will remain in the house after the divorce cannot afford to continue paying the existing mortgage on their own. This can be a major...