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Employers cannot control what employees carry away with them in their heads when they leave their employment, but they can stop employees from taking actual customer lists and other sensitive written information. This usually takes the form of...
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Those who write wills and administer estates should be regulated to provide the public with protection from incompetence and negligence. Wills drawn up by unqualified will writers are all too often found to be invalid and therefore ineffective. ...
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A word of warning to employers; you cannot treat an employee to their detriment for bringing misguided grievances relating to any form of discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, no matter how many misguided grievances that employee brings. The...
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There is a multiplicity of ways to challenge a Will. What follows is a brief, simplified, summary. Technical defects There are a number of requirements specified in legislation as to the how a Will should be signed and witnessed. For example, the...
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The Justice and Security Act 2013 (‘JSA’) received royal assent on 25 April 2013. The Act establishes oversight of intelligence and security activities by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament and also oversight by the...
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Onshore wind farms: is the tide turning? Government minister, Eric Pickles, has promised new guidance on the planning regime for onshore wind farms as well as a new formal requirement for pre-application consultation with communities over significant...
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has confirmed that further reforms to the planning application process will take effect on 25 June. The Government’s stated aim is to streamline the planning application...
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Following the publication of a highly critical report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, the Charity Commission will be the subject of an inquiry into whether it is ‘fit for purpose’. The report was published following an...
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Many will have seen and considered the very expansive changes to litigation funding brought to bear on 1 April 2013, but perhaps fewer will have noticed a few small but extremely significant changes to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) (which govern conduct...
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With whistleblowing yet again dominating the headlines, following the ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden’s disclosure, Harriet Broughton takes a look at a whistleblowers’ rights in this country. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 gave...
