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7 December

On 6 December 2016 the ICO announced that it had issued monetary penalties of £25,000 and £18,000 to two of the UK's best known charities, the Royal Society for the... Read More

28 November

The average consumer in the UK spends £489.04 on Christmas gifts. As an attorney acting under a Power of Attorney, you may have the ability to make gifts to others... Read More

7 November

On 6 December the draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 were laid before Parliament. They set out details of how employers with 250 or more employees... Read More

21 September

This article was first published in People Management in September 2016. The recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision in G4S Cash Solutions (UK) Limited v Powell makes it clear that an... Read More

12 August

A new 3% surcharge in stamp duty land tax (SDLT) for additional properties was introduced on April 1, 2016. Following the change it has been reported that HMRC's stamp duty... Read More

9 August

The Insolvency Service have recently announced that the Insolvency Rules 2016 ("the Rules") are to be laid before Parliament in October 2016. Provided that the proposed Rules are approved by... Read More

28 July

Kanye West and Taylor Swift hit the headlines recently after a recording of a telephone call between them was released to the public. Although we do not know the full... Read More

19 July

When dealing with disciplinary matters, it is always important to bear in mind the principles of fairness and reasonableness. Failure to follow a fair procedure could result in a finding... Read More

7 July

The mandatory ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) early conciliation scheme was introduced back in April 2014. New research recently published by ACAS suggests that seven out of ten claimants... Read More

7 July

Following the vote to leave the EU, there has been considerable speculation as to which EU laws will continue to apply once the UK has actually left the EU. This... Read More

25 May

In what is being hailed as a legal first, a restaurant owner in North Yorkshire has been found guilty of Gross Negligence Manslaughter, after a jury agreed that Mohamed Zaman... Read More

28 April

The Internal Revenue Service in the USA has recently brought a successful action against a business owner who gifted his business interest to his children in the 1970s but never... Read More