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When anyone is purchasing a house there is a long held maxim that has stood the test of time called 'caveat emptor'. This is a Latin legal phrase which basically translates to 'let the buyer beware'. As a professional negligence lawyer...
The Serious Crime Act 2015 was introduced to ensure that the National Crime Agency, the police and other law enforcement agencies have the powers they need to pursue, disrupt and bring to justice those engaged in serious and organised crime. The new...
According to the Office for National Statistics, the numbering cohabiting couple families has increased significantly by 29.7% between 2004 and 2014. In 2014 there were 18.6 million families in the UK. Of these, almost 3.1 million were cohabiting couple...
The Court of Appeal has this month handed down its judgment in the case of Kenneth Paul King v Chiltern Dog Rescue and Redwings Horse Sanctuary [2015] EWCA Civ 581, which involved a appeal against a decision by the High Court last year, to allow a death bed...
A recent decision by the Employment Tribunal has highlighted the need for employers to handle cases of discrimination with extreme sensitivity. A Christian nursery assistant was wrongly dismissed from her employment after a discussion with a lesbian...
When a landlord evicts a tenant, for asking for repairs to be completed at their property, this is known as retaliatory eviction. Although many landlords are keen to keep their properties in good repair a few either don’t want to or cannot afford the...
The Ministry of Justice has announced that they are to conduct their long awaited review into Employment Tribunal fees. Since the implementation of fees the number of cases brought before the Employment Tribunal have halved and there are ongoing...
This week both Boots and HSBC have announced restructures of their respective businesses. As a result there are likely to be a large number of redundancies. Boots has estimated that it will be making around 900 redundancies at its head office with HSBC...
Statistics show that 42 per cent of possession orders made in the first quarter of the year were suspended. That means that a court was convinced to give the tenant an opportunity to prove they could turn the situation around. In our experience...
Japanese Knotweed seems to be everywhere now - and not just in our gardens. This mythical sounding plant is fast becoming the hot topic affecting property and has even made an appearance in a dispute on ITV’s Judge Rinder. What is Japanese...
