The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has published the findings of its fifteenth employee absence management survey, carried out in partnership with Simplyhealth. This provides useful benchmarking data for organisations on absence levels and the cost and causes…
When a successful prosecution for an environmental offence occurs, the financial consequences for the business found to be in breach of the law can be severe. On 1 July 2014, new sentencing guidelines were introduced for such cases, with the…
A mother and father who refused to pay their sons' private school fees – claiming that staff had failed to protect the three boys from bullying and racial abuse – have been ordered to pay up after their complaints were…
A developer, Lexadon Ltd, converted a property in Trent Road, Brixton into four flats whilst it applied for planning consent. Having submitted three planning applications without securing a planning consent they decided to rent out the flats, having completed the…
In a case which revealed extreme workplace tensions within a secondary school, a teacher who claimed that he was maliciously branded unsafe to work with children after confiscating a mobile phone from a pupil in class has failed in a…
A senior NHS manager who claimed that she was bullied into a nervous breakdown by a cancer specialist with whom she had a principled disagreement over the use of public resources in private clinical studies has had her hopes of…
The Government has laid before Parliament draft regulations which, if approved, will make changes to the way in which eligible parents of children due to be born or adopted on or after 5 April 2015 can take parental leave and…
In a ground-breaking decision, the High Court has ruled that, where an employee leaves his job without notice and ceases to be paid, the employer is still entitled to keep his employment contract alive and to prevent him working for…
DFA Law client Camborne Capital has formally entered a partnership with sPower and its principal shareholder, Fir Tree Partners, to acquire, develop and construct large-scale solar PV assets in the UK under the FIT, ROC and CFD regimes. sPower is…
From 1 December 2014, the Home Office will pilot a scheme for landlords renting properties in Birmingham, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Wolverhampton should carry out “right to rent” checks for new tenancy agreements to determine whether tenants have the right…