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It is estimated that around 2.3 million women and men around the world succumb to work-related accidents or diseases every year; this corresponds to over 6,000 deaths every single day. Worldwide, there are around 340 million occupational accidents...
The case of A Local Authority v MF & Ors [2022] EWCOP 54 , which was recently published on the National Archive, concerned a 40-year-old man ‘M’ with a diagnosis of moderate learning disability and schizoaffective disorder. An application...
With symptoms which can often be disguised as the struggles of day-to-day life; type 2 diabetes can often go unrecognised and therefore untreated. The current estimate for people aged 16 and over in England with diabetes is at 3.8 million and is...
A recent study – entitled TRACERx – has provided the most comprehensive analysis to date of how cancers evolve and what causes them to spread. The project involved collecting genomic and clinical data from over 400 people with lung cancer...
The term ‘road rage’ often elicits images of a red faced drivers, hitting their horn and gesturing angrily at other road users. It is a well-known sight with the majority of road users having witnessed road rage at one time or another. Many...
For many people a pet is another member of their family unit. As a result, it can be a very emotional and difficult decision as to how the future care of any pet shall be determined when couples separate. With pet ownership increasing during...
6th April 2023 marked new CGT legislation that enables those going through divorce or civil partnership dissolution significant assistance in separating their assets as tax efficiently as possible. Capital gains tax (CGT) can arise on the...
A trust of land is when the legal title of a piece of land is held by one party, the trustee, on behalf of another party, who has the ultimate beneficial interest, known as the beneficiary. Depending on the circumstances under which the trust arose, the...
A restrictive covenant is a contractual obligation contained within the deeds of a property. They can have the effect of restricting a landowners use of their land and are particularly troublesome for property developers. But for a property owner facing a...
