Does time spent travelling to and from work count as working time under the Working Time Regulations (WTR)?
Background The WTR set minimum health and safety requirements in areas such as: rest breaks and rest periods; limits on the number of hours to be worked on average each […]
Deprivation of liberty, and paying lip service to equal rights
You can view Sheree’s full article on the Justice Gap website.
Special Measures and the CQC: “Are You Inadequate?”
[media id=653]Well, we can all feel inadequate on a bad day and it may sound a bit of an old advertiser’s cliché, but in this case it can have disastrous […]
Pitfalls and perils for tenants wishing to exercise a break clause
This case is about the tricky and contested issue of break clauses. Often, the exercise of a break option is conditional on the tenant paying the rent in full for […]
Draft gender pay reporting regulations published
This information could well prompt questions or even equal pay claims by employees or their representatives and could cause reputational damage if unexplained. Background Equal pay for men and women […]
The rise of pre-nuptial agreements
What is a pre-nuptial agreement? A pre-nuptial agreement is a contract that a couple enters into before marriage which sets out their rights to property, assets, debts and income acquired […]
Staying together for the children at Christmas
Evidence suggests that more than one in four parents make an effort to hide relationship problems at Christmas and stay together for the sake of their children. It’s perhaps no […]
Liberty and Protection – The Law Commission’s report on Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty has now been published
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – the bespoke authorisation process for people deprived of their liberty in care homes and hospitals – were described by the House of Lords […]
The future of supported housing
The future funding of supported housing has been a question for a number of years but the proposed Local Housing Allowance (LHA) changes threaten the financial viability of many of […]
The former Senior Judge of the Court of Protection, Denzel Lush, has today strongly stated his disapproval of Lasting Powers of Attorney
Having been the Judge of the Court of Protection for over 20 years, it is quite the condemnation of LPAs that have been increasingly advertised by the Ministry of Justice […]
Tackling Teckal decisively
The ‘Teckal test’ was best summarised as a two part test: the ‘control test’: the parent must exercise over the subsidiary a control that is equivalent to the control it […]
What is HR’s role in disciplinary and grievance cases?
Ramphal v Department for Transport Mr Ramphal was an Aviation Security Compliance Inspector for the Department for Transport. He was under investigation following the result of a random audit of […]