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Legal Article
11 Nov 2019
Following recommendations made by Dame Janet Smith, Chair of the Shipman Inquiry, new regulations have finally been introduced to ensure greater consistency in the reporting of deaths by medical practitioners in England and Wales. The Regulations came into force on 1st October 2019 with immediate effect…
Insurance
Legal Article
08 Nov 2019
The HSE has published its annual report "Health and safety at work - Summary statistics for Great Britain 2019". Despite Great Britain being one of the safest places to work compared to its EU counterparts, the HSE say the statistics show that the number of injuries and incidents of ill…
Insurance
Legal Article
08 Nov 2019
Overview Forfeiture is where a land owner takes back possession from a tenant due to a breach. The court has the power to grant relief from forfeiture to a tenant of a lease. This case examines the ability of the Courts to grant relief where the occupier holds a licence, as opposed to a lease…
Dispute Resolution
Forbes News
05 Nov 2019
After months of planning and consultation, the ASC Forbes service launched our much-awaited Best Practice Partnership Network at the Novotel in Leeds on Thursday 26th September 2019. The purpose of this initiative is to improve collaborative working between Registered Housing Providers, Police,…
Housing & Regeneration
Forbes News
01 Nov 2019
In the second of our series of practical guidance on common landlord problems, we look at the issue of forfeiture of mixed-use premises. Scenario: the landlord owns a mixed-use property let out to a tenant under one lease. The property comprises of a shop on the ground floor and a flat upstairs,…
Dispute Resolution
Legal Article
01 Nov 2019
County Lines describes gangs or organised criminals who export drugs into one or more UK importing areas. They use dedicated mobile phone lines or 'deal lines' and use children or vulnerable adults, to move / store the drugs. They use coercion, intimidation, violence, sexual violence and…
Housing & Regeneration
Legal Article
01 Nov 2019
Environmental issues are increasingly becoming a major concern within society and inevitably a key priority forming part of government policy. In the context of commercial property, this is most noticeable with the rules on ascertaining the energy efficiency of properties, by way of an Energy…
Commercial Property
Legal Article
31 Oct 2019
The increasing global environmental socio-economic awareness means that there is now a wealth of environmental laws and issues in practice which overlap with some areas of property law, in particular leases. What do Landlords want? As landlords will be keen to make sure that the tenant will…
Commercial Property
Legal Article
25 Oct 2019
It is common for tenancy agreements to require a tenant to pay a service charge to its landlord in return for services and maintenance of the property and communal areas. However, at times, there can be disparity between the services provided by the landlord and the service charge that is paid by the…
Housing & Regeneration
Legal Article
25 Oct 2019
The Employment Tribunal held in Raj v Capita Business Services that establishing an offensive or humiliating environment alone is not sufficient to establish that the conduct relates to a protected characteristic. In order to prove successful, a claimant must establish that the reason for the conduct…
Employment & HR
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