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Planning to take your children on holiday during school term time? Here’s what you need to know
It’s that time of year again, where up to 1 in 6 parents will take their children out of school during term time, to go on a family holiday. ...
- Commercial Conveyancing
Break Clauses – The Importance of Negotiation
A break clause is a provision in a lease which enables either the landlord or the tenant, or both, under specified circumstances, to terminate ...
- Residential Conveyancing
Cybercrime – “Friday afternoon fraud”– how to safeguard against property fraud by Pritpal Chahal
A new wave of cybercrime is targeting residential conveyancing transactions. Fraudsters are aggressively targeting law firms that handle ...
- Employment Law
Holiday Entitlement and Pay – Your Questions Answered
Q: What is an employee’s minimum holiday entitlement per year? A: The Working Time Regulations (“WTR”) provide for an annual entitlement of 5.6 ...
- Employment Law
Mobile workers, travel time and the Working Time Regulations
The issue of whether mobile workers’ travelling time between their home and the premises of their first and last customers counts as ‘working ...
- Family Law
Divorce settlements
In a recent Court ruling, divorce settlements and ancillary relief matters will be affected in the way they have been previously calculated. Divorced ...
- Employment Law
Redundancy: myths and useful facts for employers
A business objective to save money will not necessarily fall within the definition of a redundancy. Redundancy relates to circumstances where there ...
- Employment Law
Holiday pay and overtime: what does the law say and how can employers deal with it?
You may have seen news stories in the last few months about holiday pay, as there have been some very significant recent cases on what should be ...
- Employment Law
Frozen in Coventry and Warwickshire
Well, it’s that time of year again. “The wind is howling like a swirling storm inside” and local forecasters are predicting snow in the West ...