With the Prime Minister recently seeming to jump aboard the ‘H&S-knockers’ band-wagon, personal injury specialist Jack Waller – from our London office – urges him not to believe everything he might read in the papers…
Four national charities (Sense, National Autistic Society, RNIB and Guide Dogs) will today obtain clarification from the Supreme Court as to whether a local authority should take an individual’s financial resources into account when they are assessing a person’s needs.
68 year-old Michael Ward from Enfield, Middlesex – who slipped on ice at his place of work – has been awarded £31,000 in damages by the High Court. Metroline of Harrow had denied liability.
In a unanimous judgment the London Central Employment Tribunal has awarded payments to former Woolworth group employees, following the collapse of the High Street giant.
In the High Court a Nottingham man has secured damages from Network Rail following the tragic death of his wife and grandson at a pedestrian-only railway crossing.
Binder explains our employment law philosophy and considers the repercussions on jobs of the current economic downturn…