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A whistleblowing ex-policeman was sacked not because of his protected disclosures but due to his pursuit of complaints in a way that was ‘sufficient to try and to exhaust the...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a new guide to protecting personal data, ‘Protecting personal data in online services: learning from the mistakes of others’, which it describes as...
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When a publisher and the firm managing its subscription database fell out over the database manager’s quality of service, the publisher gave the database manager a month’s notice to terminate...
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Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Schemes (FURBS) were a popular tax-planning device for higher-paid employees until legislation in 2006 made them ineffective by making contributions to a FURBS no longer qualify...
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The Equality Act 2010 contains measures that protect employees from victimisation for having made a complaint of unlawful discrimination, but does that protection extend to events that take place after...
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The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, which is currently before Parliament, contains provisions enabling the Secretary of State to require prescribed persons to report annually on any action taken...
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