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• Changes to the TUPE Regulations

  • Posted31 January 2014

  The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 came into force on 31 January 2014. They amend the provisions relating to collective redundancies in the...

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• No Compensation for Consequential Losses

  • Posted30 January 2014

  Cases arising from the damage done by rioters during the 2011 riots are now beginning to come to court. Recently, one such case was decided concerning the extent of...

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• HAVS Prosecutions Ring Warning Bell for Employers

  • Posted29 January 2014

  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently launched a series of prosecutions against employers for failing to ensure that adequate measures were taken to minimise workers’ exposure to vibration...

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• SDLT Avoidance Scheme Fails

  • Posted27 January 2014

  Although some law is ‘common law’ and some effectively the result of decisions of the courts, when law is in written form, the exact meaning of the words used is...

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• Net Value Means Current Value Not Book Value, Rules Court

  • Posted24 January 2014

  When a family partnership broke up, the lack of precision in clauses of the partnership agreement led to an appearance in the Court of Appeal. Two farmers took their...

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• Rent Refund Case to Go to Appeal

  • Posted20 January 2014

  A recent decision in which the court ruled that a landlord was obliged to repay to its tenant rent paid in advance for a period after the break date on...

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