Forever Maintenance
A wealthy businessman recently won his fight in the Court of Appeal after being ordered to pay his ex wife an extra £202,000, thirty years after their divorce.
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Divorce in the Digital Age
Electronic communications are becoming a weapon in divorce proceedings, often establishing grounds for divorce. Flirtatious emails and saucy messages sent via social networking sites such as Facebook and Friends Reunited can be used as evidence of a spouse's ‘unreasonable behaviour'.
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IS YOUR RATES BILL ABOUT TO INCREASE?
The current regime.
Under the current regime, no rates are payable for the first three months when a property first becomes empty and unoccupied. After the initial three months, Empty Property Rates become payable at the rate of 50% of the full occupied charge. Industrial properties and those with a low rateable value benefit from an exemption that allows them to indefinitely receive 100% relief for as long as the property remains empty and unoccupied.
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OUT WITH PGS AND IN WITH CIL
In previous editions of Property Focus we have covered the Government's proposals for Planning Gain Supplement (“PGS”). PGS has now been superseded by the Community Infrastructure Levy (“CIL”) which appeared in the recent Planning Bill.
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There can be Associative Discrimination
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has, this morning, published its landmark decision in Coleman v Attridge Law, in answer to questions referred by the London South Employment Tribunal.
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The Dangers of Office Banter
The legal dangers of making what might be regarded as ‘sexist' remarks in the workplace are greater than ever before, following changes to the law that came into force on 6th April.
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Blog With Care
More and more businesses are launching their own ‘blogs' as a low-cost, ‘street-cred' way of marketing themselves. However, warns a local solicitor, just because it feels like an informal means of communication, a blog should not be used to over-sell the business or knock the competition.
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How to impose Garden Leave with out express power
Companies often wish to put senior executives on garden leave during a notice period so that the employee stays away from work and must not contact colleagues, customers or suppliers. That scenario is intended to protect the ongoing business from unwanted activities of an employee who is about to leave.
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SUNDAY PAY PREMIUMS COULD BE DISCRIMINATORY
Pharmacists and other shop owners who pay wage premiums to staff for working on a Sunday could be acting in breach of the forthcoming religious discrimination legislation.
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