Ebriefings

The government announced on 16 May that it will provide a fund of £400m to cover the costs of removal and replacement of cladding to high rise residential blocks which have failed tests.

The use of large up-front fees and disproportionate deposits has already resulted in significant cost consequences for one care provider.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has, for the first time, ruled on the issue of enhanced shared parental pay for fathers. It confirmed that failure to pay a male employee enhanced […]

The tragedy, in this case, is that there were options readily available to the midwives that they could have used. This was not a case of having to go above and beyond.

We often see new clients who have not been claiming all the benefits they are entitled to and need some help getting their financial affairs in order.

We are now only a few weeks away from the biggest change to data protection laws in over 20 years. Are you compliant?

Arising from the recent Family Division announcement, people who think they are legally divorced may in fact still be married.

The SCCS has issued providers in the scheme a series of updated and new documents in order to assist with their National Minimum Wage review.

The recent Oxfam scandal has highlighted the unsatisfactory practice that has developed across the HR world in respect of the giving of references.

When an individual is thinking about making a gift to another individual, consideration needs to be given to the Potentially Exempt Transfer (PET) trap.

Thinking about the legal status of being a cohabitant probably isn’t at the top of the ‘to do’ list.

A big fear for some people facing divorce and the inevitable carving up of the matrimonial assets. They seek assurances that such assets will be “ring-fenced” and retained for them.