Legal News
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Posted 09/11/2010 A woman is suing Hilton Hotels for £60,000 after alleging that she was discriminated against on the grounds of her race. Juliette Giscombe, 57, claims she was forced...
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Posted 30/11/2011 The government has announced a change to employment law that it claims will give small businesses more time to prepare for the auto-enrolment pension scheme.Pensions minister Steve Webb...
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Posted 05/11/2010 A widow has secured a clinical negligence compensation payout after her husband died from a blood clot following a routine operation. Chris Harper, 60, went to have a...
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Posted 29/05/2013 As technology continues to advance and ownership of tablets, smart phones and laptops is on the up, so increasing numbers of employers are allowing employees to use their...
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Posted 12/06/2013 It has been announced that the largest database of those diagnosed with cancer is to be set up in England. The hope is that collating all the data...
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Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) have acknowledged that dying patients may sometimes have been put on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) inappropriately because hospitals were offered financial incentives...
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Posted 29/11/2011 A group of female former employees of Birmingham City Council have won a landmark equal pay case against the local authority.Some 174 cooks, cleaners, caterers and care staff...
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Posted 20/10/2010 Public sector cuts could mean that nearly 150,000 small businesses face insolvency next year, it has been claimed. Trade body R3 said that ten per cent of small...
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Posted 24/10/2010 An NHS trust is facing legal action for clinical negligence after a nurse switched off a patient’s life support machine, leaving him permanently brain damaged. Jamie Merrett had...
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Posted 02/07/2013 Following the liquidation of the retail chain Woolworths, several thousand jobs were lost. The recognised trade unions of the employees brought claims alleging that the administrators had failed to...
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Posted 17/07/2013 Sandra Patton, who heads the clinical negligence team at Ashtons Legal, has secured compensation of £810,000 for a 76 year old man, Mr T, who had to have...
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Posted 24/10/2010 Anyone buying a business should try to negotiate the price downwards in order to ensure they will gain a profitable investment. This is the advice of Susan Schreter,...
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