As the law currently stands, employers and pension funds are permitted to exclude civil partners from spousal benefits under a pension scheme the rights to which accrued prior to 5 December 2005, which is when Section 1 of...
Changes to employment law and practice are normally implemented in either April or October in order to make life easier for employers, who must ensure that their policies and procedures comply by the implementation dates....
With increasing use of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook for both business and pleasure, it is advisable for all firms to have social networking policies that are clear and unequivocal and protect the...
When a family business is handed down and ownership is split between two or more members of the next generation, the result can all too often be discord. Normally, this can be resolved by one party buying out the other, but...
Often, it takes a dispute over something that is worth a lot of money to produce a judgment that clarifies the law. A recent case, involving a disagreement over a lease that required the tenant to build and maintain a...
A lack of candour in contractual negotiations can lead to grave financial consequences, as was shown when an event management company that lost its only customer four months after signing a new five-year deal won the right...
The judge came down hard on a Singapore-based businessman who first told his ex-wife that she was entitled to more than €2 million from the sale of company shares, before seeking to reduce that figure a few months later to...
Warners Solicitors in Tonbridge and Sevenoaks has been one of the first firms in the country to secure membership to the Law Society's Wills & Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS). Warners Solicitors underwent rigorous...
Changes to the way parents can share maternity leave form part of the Children and Families Act 2014. Details as to how the proposed new system will work in practice are set out in draft legislation on which the Government...
A recent tax case shows how important it is to be able to prove one’s claims when dealing with the tax authorities. It involved a couple who moved to Belgium in 2001, having left the UK before 6 April that year. They were...