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With just over five weeks to go until the new reforms were due to be implemented (6 th April 2020), the government has today announced that the whiplash reforms are now not going to be brought in until the 1 st August. Once the reforms come...
Monday 2 March 2020 is this year’s national offer day for secondary school admission applications when parents and pupils receive the decision on whether they have been successful in their choice of preferred secondary school. It will be a day of...
Cardiff Employment Tribunal have awarded a former employee of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) a substantial sum, further to ruling that she was subjected to ongoing unwanted treatment which amounted to acts of racial and age related harassment. ...
Price fixing in the UK is almost always illegal, though there are exceptions. Typically, price-fixing is defined as an agreement between organisations or individuals to control the price level of a certain product or service. For example, the intent of...
In the UK, cartels that act to price fix to restrict competition are considered both a civil issue and a criminal offence. If you or your company are involved with price-fixing , also known as anti-competitive activity, and are found guilty, you could...
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care oversees the ten statutory bodies that regulate health professionals in the United Kingdom and social workers in England. The PSA are an independent body who are accountable to...
The UK has now officially withdrawn from the European Union, but what does this mean for our employment rights? One major post-Brexit concern is that a large part of these rights come from EU law. A key question surrounds how workers will be protected...
The latest house price data compiled by the Land Registry, showed an average annual house price increase of 2.2% in December, with all regions of the UK experiencing an uplift. The surge in house prices over the last few months can often be frustrating...
We have all heard that we should go ‘paperless’ to save the environment, and to some extent this is very sound advice as it saves countless trees every year. However, in some instances it is beneficial to still receive paper ‘hard...
It has been reported that a salon worker from Fife has been awarded approximately £18,000 in the employment tribunal after she was dismissed the day after handing in her fit note following an unsuccessful surgery to save her left eye in May 2018. ...
From February 2020 until April 2020, Ofsted are piloting body-worn video cameras in all suspected unregistered illegal schools in order to protect their inspectors, seize evidence and increase prosecutions. Ofsted have repeatedly called on the...
Recently there have been a number of cases in the press of male defendants going to trial charged with a serious sexual assault which they claim that they have committed whilst they were asleep. This condition is known as sexsomnia. Sleep related sexual...
Whilst there is no legal requirement to instruct a solicitor to handle your claim, there are a number of factors which can affect the success of your case and the amount of compensation you are awarded which you would need to consider before making a...
The UK’s departure from the EU brings about a period of uncertainty for many UK businesses, as they try to plan for and adapt to the possible changes. At 11pm on January 31st 2020 the UK entered a transition period which is due to last until the...
In a recent case, the Vice President of the Court of Protection, Hayden J, reminded us of the importance of the presumption of capacity and the requirement for proper assessment of mental capacity on an issue-specific basis. Everyone is assumed to have...
We commenced this month with National Sickie Day, the first Monday of every February and statistically the day that employers are likely to record the most employee absences throughout the year. Absences recorded on National Sickie Day face the...
In December last year it was reported that England had had its fifth wettest autumn on record. Following these reports prospective buyers are being warned to be extra vigilant when looking to purchase a property that is close to a watercourse or has...
The IR35 tax legislation gives HMRC the power to challenge the status of contractors and aims to tackle tax avoidance by freelance contractors and the companies who appoint them. The responsibility has always been on the contractors themselves to prove...
Healthcare providers owe duties to service users under the Equality Act 2010 where the service user has a 'protected characteristic'. Protected characteristics include: age, gender, race, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy and maternity,...
