Percy Hughes & Roberts Solicitors' Blog

13 Nov
markbland

My colleague Wendy Randall from our Wills trusts and Probate department has produced an excellent guide to what to do if you need to sell a house of someone for whom you hold a Power of Attorney

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06 Jul
markbland

I don’t mean to be facetious but it is a fact of life that although we may be living longer we are not all going to retain are mental faculties until the end

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21 Mar
markbland

Are judges workers? In the good old fashioned socialist sense of the word, Judges would have been considered the antithesis of ‘a worker’, indeed they would frequently have been considered a ‘class enemy’.

Categories: Employment
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20 Mar
markbland

Apprentice brings unfair dismissal claim against Lord Sugar A winner of The Apprentice competition, Stella English, is currently pursuing Lord Sugar for unfair dismissal.

Categories: Employment
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26 Jan
markbland

The newspaper headlines last Saturday concentrated on the fact that due to a finding of an Employment Tribunal the taxpayer was going to have to pick up a bill of £67m to pay out awards to the employees of Woolworths who were made redundant in 2008.

Categories: Employment
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22 Dec
markbland

I notice that lots of law firms are raising cash for charity by carrying out some form of strenuous and/or hazardous activity usually involving running, walking or swimming great distances or climbing or falling from great heights. Sponsored marathon...

Categories: Miscellaneous
Tags: Charity, Cash, Baking
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19 Oct
markbland

The Transfer of Undertaking Protection of Employment Regulations 2006 are popularly known as TUPE.

Categories: Employment
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26 Sep
markbland

Winning your unfair dismissal claim in the Tribunal can sometimes be only half the battle.

Categories: Employment
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24 Aug
markbland

Part time workers have fewer rights than full time workers. True or False? Employment law does not apply to self employed staff. True or False?

Categories: Employment
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17 Aug
markbland

Employment Law never stands still for long. The Government has published a Green Paper on reforming access to the Employment Tribunal system. ‘Resolving Workplace Disputes’ was published on the 27th January 2011.

Categories: Employment
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