Being appointed as a child’s ‘Special Guardian’ gives parental responsibility for the Special Guardian for the child until the child reaches the age of 18 and exclusive responsibility for the day to day care, long term care and upbringing...
Thomas v BNP Paribas Real Estate The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decided in this case that a 'perfunctory and insensitive' redundancy consultation is likely to make a redundancy dismissal unfair. The Claimant had over 40 years' service,...
Following discussions at its ‘Modernising Conveyancing’ Conference, the Conveyancing Association, the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has announced it will set out a template for the future and produce a list of actions all...
A living will is where you express your wishes about how you want to be treated and cared for in certain situations, in case the time comes when you do not have the capacity to make or communicate your decisions. The document sets out your wishes about...
The Divisional Court upheld an application earlier this month against the government, deciding that the government does not have prerogative power to invoke Article 50 without a vote by Parliament. Parliament will need to vote in favour of doing so before...
Grange v Abellio London The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held in this case that an employee is not required to ask for a rest break before claiming to have been refused a rest break? The Claimant was contracted to work an eight and a half hour shift,...
The supermarket Iceland is in a high profile dispute over name rights with the Icelandic government, mounted a legal challenge against the retailer at the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The Icelandic government aims to ''ensure the...
The Autumn Statement delivered last week by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, included a number of measures relating to employment. ‘Employee shareholder’ status (ESS) was introduced in September 2013 as a new category of worker status. Employee...
Images are freely available and easily searched using online search engines such as Google images. Given their ease of accessibility many Internet users are forgetting that photos are a type of intellectual property. This means that photos (at all stages of...