ACAS calls for an attitude change towards flexible working
06/10/2017
ACAS, Flexible working The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has published a report that suggests employers are not doing enough…
What are the implications of a Decree Absolute?
25/07/2017
After the Decree Absolute is granted, you are no longer legally married to your spouse, but the Decree Absolute also…
Banning Tenants’ Fees
25/07/2017
On 21 June 2017, the Queen’s Speech set out information on legislation that the government intends to carry over into,…
The Lobbying Act
30/06/2017
The Lobbying Act is a piece of legislation that seeks to regulate how Charities, NGOs and other non party campaign…
Construction firm bans workers from having beards.
30/06/2017
Workers. Discrimination. Legitimate aim In June 2017, a construction firm, Mears, rolled out a firm-wide policy that will prevent employees…
Eid Mubarak from everyone at Johns & Saggar
23/06/2017
Can Easements Exist to Use Recreational Facilities?
26/05/2017
In Regency Villas Title Ltd and others v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd and another [2017] EWCA Civ 238, the Court of…
HMRC Investigation on Argos not Paying Minimum Wage
26/05/2017
HMRC investigation uncovers Argos’s failure to pay their workers the national minimum wage. Failure to pay the minimum wage, “naming…
Matrimonial Finances – pre-acquired and post-separation assets
07/04/2017
In long marriages, there may be issues about identifying and valuing assets which one party has brought into the marriage…
Call for government to guarantee minimum wage for ‘gig economy’ workers.
10/03/2017
Minimum wage. Notice periods. Workers. The Chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, Labour MP Frank Field, has…
“The Proof is in the Substance”. Cycle courier found to be a worker and not a self-employed contractor.
16/02/2017
Another Uber? Cycle courier found to be a worker. Worker or Self-employed? In a case very similar to the recent…
Property: What to expect in 2017
31/01/2017
The uncertainty generated by Brexit infiltrates the real estate sector from the wider economy. Property, and the housing market in…