High Court Aids Widow Left in Precarious Position by Husband’s Death

Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2007. From that date Romanians and Bulgarians have the right to travel throughout the EU. However, employers should note…

Two recent cases illustrate the sense in taking advice on avoid contract disputes and commercial litigation from clumsy and imprecise language and latent ambiguities in legally binding documents and formation…

When a company is set up, it is common to divide the shares in it in approximately equal proportions amongst the shareholders. Whether or not this proves to be the…

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that the obligation on an employer, under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, to consult over collective redundancies…

The Charities Act 2006 was given Royal Assent in November 2006. It gives additional powers to the Charity Commission to suspend or remove trustees from charities or to give specific…

There are specific rules that normally apply when an employer enters into a compromise agreement in order to prevent an employee from taking action on a particular matter at the…

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations, which came into force in December 2003, prohibit direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, victimisation and harassment in the workplace by reason of any ‘religion,…

The Court of Appeal has ruled (Wilson v Health and Safety Executive) on the correct approach to objective justification in equal pay claims that arise from service-related pay schemes which…

In most legal proceedings, the parties are required to give disclosure of documents prior to the trial. Failures to give proper disclosure may lead to an application for specific disclosure,…

What is a Statutory Will? A Will made by the Court of Protection on behalf of a person (“P”) who lacks the capacity to make a Will is called a…