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• Constructive Knowledge – Employer Defeats Claim Thanks to Reasonableness Test

  • Posted19 September 2019

  Under Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010, an employer’s duty to make reasonable adjustments for an employee who is disabled is only triggered if the employer has actual knowledge...

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• Motor Industry Worker Who Profited From Theft of Data Ordered to Pay £25,500

  • Posted16 September 2019

  In November 2018, a motor industry worker, Mustafa Kasim, was given a six-month prison sentence for accessing motorists’ personal data on his employer’s computer system without authorisation and selling it...

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• Hotel Under Duty to Protect Guests Against Third-Party Criminal Acts

  • Posted13 September 2019

  Can businesses owe a duty to protect customers on their premises from the criminal acts of others? In a test case concerning a horrific attack on three hotel guests, the...

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• Don’t Even Think About Doing a Property Deal Without Legal Advice

  • Posted12 September 2019

  Property purchases are, for the majority of people, the highest-value deals they ever enter into and that is why they should never be undertaken in haste or without expert legal...

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• Reasonable Endeavours Clauses Can Have Teeth

  • Posted10 September 2019

  Unreasonable delay in fulfilling the terms of a contract is an unwise policy, as a recent dispute that ended up in the Court of Appeal shows. When a developer...

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• Pension Scheme That Failed to Consider Wife’s Claim Called to Account

  • Posted9 September 2019

  It is usual for occupational pension schemes to allow the spouse or partner of a scheme member to receive a reduced pension in the event that the member predeceases them....

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