It has been a busy year for the care industry following a number of changes to how businesses in the social care sector are regulated and the introduction of a number of new criminal offences. Our specialist care home solicitors run through the latest updates.
A new law has today been introduced that prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle when there is a child in the vehicle. Anyone smoking in a motor vehicle containing a child commits an offence as does a non-smoking driver if he allows a passenger to
Published Thursday 1st October 2015, 05:00 AM Employers are reminded that the following changes to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates came into effect on 1 October 2015: the adult NMW rate increased from £6.50 to £6.70 per hour; the NMW rate for workers
Players of ‘Monopoly’ are rewarded for bank errors in their favour – but that may not be so easy in the real world after a judge opened the way for banks to track down those whose accounts are credited by mistake. In the high-volume digital age,
Businesses and public authorities often spend millions developing their websites, but such investments can disappear in a puff of smoke if they fail to renew registration of the domain names on which they are based. In one case, a local authority did just that and
What happens to a company’s leasehold property interests if it becomes insolvent? In an important case, the High Court has tackled that issue in relation to a troubled restaurant chain and one of its flagship branches in Central London. The company which ran the chain
A civilian police worker whose claims of psychiatric disability were disbelieved by her bosses, and who was sacked on the basis of vague allegations, has won the right to substantial compensation for the mistreatment she endured. The woman had worked in a police force’s finance
The trouble with oral contracts, agreed without taking legal advice, is that their terms, and even their existence, may later be disputed. Exactly that happened in one case in which an interior designer had to resort to legal action in order to be paid in
In whistleblowing cases, the employee’s state of mind is the decisive factor and that was certainly so in the case of a college lecturer who was dismissed after being accused of making groundless allegations against a colleague. The lecturer faced criticism of her performance on
Title deeds to land can often contain traps that only a professional conveyancer is trained to spot. In one case which proved the point, development restrictions which dated back more than 50 years almost defeated a woman’s plans to build a new house in the
