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The Employment Rights Bill, which formed part of the legislative programme outlined in the King's Speech, has now been introduced into Parliament. Some of the key provisions included in the Bill are: Workers on zero-hours contracts will be entitled to...

The Family Court recently considered an application by the parents of a 15-year-old boy for authorisation to accept a gift of a share in a property on his behalf, in exercise of their parental responsibility. The boy's father owned a property in...

The High Court recently ruled on a claim by AGA Rangemaster , the manufacturer of AGA cookers, that a company which also supplies range cookers had infringed its trade marks. The company's cookers were fitted with an electric control system, which could...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing changes to the safeguarding regime that applies to payments and e-money firms, in order to better protect customers. Funds held by payments firms are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation...

Where a partnership's members include one or more companies, the profits of the partnership are calculated as if its trade was carried on by a company, by virtue of Section 1259 of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 . Recently, the Upper Tribunal (UT) ruled on...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that where a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) puts people with a protected characteristic at a disadvantage, protection from indirect discrimination under Section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 can...

A homeowner has successfully argued before the Upper Tribunal (UT) that an application by the owner of adjoining land to modify a restrictive covenant should be refused . A small cottage had originally stood on the adjoining land, but had been badly...

A man who let a house to a company which in turn let rooms in it to tenants has succeeded in his appeal against a rent repayment order after the Upper Tribunal (UT) concluded that he was not the tenants' immediate landlord and therefore no such order could...

When deciding whether it is in a patient's best interests to continue life-sustaining treatment, the courts will look to the patient's views and beliefs, where known, as well as the medical evidence. In a sad case concerning a 66-year-old man in a state of...

A company that provides installation services for home improvement products has been issued with a monetary penalty by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after making thousands of unsolicited marketing calls to numbers registered with the Telephone...