Legal News
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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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Posted 17/07/2013 New trials are about to start involving about 500 patients with late stage secondary progressive MS. These are to see if three drugs currently used in treating motor neurone...
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Posted 02/11/2010 Women are still facing gender-based discrimination in the workplace, according to one expert. Beverley Skeggs, professor at Goldsmiths University of London, said females in executive positions constantly come...
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Posted 11/11/2011 Date: 11 November 2011 Employment minister Chris Grayling has called for reform of employment law to be made faster by the coalition government, urging the state to cut...
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Posted 10/11/2010 A new survey has revealed that 86 per cent of entrepreneurs feel now is the right time to buy a business. The poll, carried out by BusinessesforSale.com and...
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Posted 22/07/2013 Ben Ward, a medical negligence specialist solicitor at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £10,000 for Mrs K, a lady from London who suffered a year of pain after unsatisfactory...
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Posted 20/06/2013 A review reports that England’s healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) may have attempted to cover up their own failings and in so doing have left patients...
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