It feels like changes are occurring daily at the moment. The current topic for implementation is the plan to merge the Housing, Parliamentary and Health and Local Government Ombudsmen into one large public body. At the moment there are 17 different ombudsman schemes including: The “Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman” Read more…
Discussions about the future of Sheffield city centre have stepped up a gear this year. Hopes are high a retail quarter may emerge from the ashes of the Sevenstone development and debate rages about the proposed demolition of independent street shops on Devonshire Street. What we can’t deny is that Read more…
Tenants require the flexibility of being able to dispose of their interest in leasehold premises for a number of reasons including where business is expanding and tenants are wanting to relocate to larger premises or where business is struggling and tenants are wanting to downsize or simply close their business. Read more…
Purchasing a property at auction is an appealing prospect for potential buyers in that valuable investments can be obtained on favourable financial terms. Therefore, to ensure that this is the case, potential buyers are advised to give consideration to the following: 1. Tenure The majority of properties are either freehold Read more…
It has been reported that the number of people returning to the courts to boost their divorce settlements doubled last year. Many couples fail to obtain a court order to formalise their financial agreement when they divorce. During hard times reduced incomes and depressed asset values leads divorcing couples to Read more…
Fathers who are not married to their child’s Mother, and whose name does not appear on their child’s birth certificates are at risk of having lesser rights in the event that the child’s mother leaves the country without their knowledge and consent. These Fathers are already disadvantaged as they do Read more…
The last few months have seen some interesting cases as the law in relation to TUPE, and in particular service provision changes, continues to develop. Hot off the press is the case of Jinks v London Borough of Havering where the EAT considered how TUPE applies to service provision changes Read more…
In March this year the Supreme Court passed judgment in the case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (Scotland) [2015] UKSC 11 which on appeal ruled that Mrs Montgomery should have been given the necessary information to give informed consent about the treatment she was to receive during the birth Read more…
Adoption statistics are in the press again. Times are changing and it seems that there has been a fall in Adoptions with Special Guardianship Orders being made instead. Most people understand what adoption means – the child gains a new legal status with new parents. His/her original parents no longer Read more…
In 2013, we saw the Employment Appeal Tribunal effectively re-write the statute book and change the way employers needed to approach collective redundancy consultation, by removing the need for redundancies to be at one establishment”. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now given its Judgment and it looks like the law Read more…