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Misconceptions regarding the ‘typical’ victims of domestic violence are leaving thousands of people in a dangerous situation vulnerable to abuse, legal specialist Percy Hughes & Roberts has warned. In a survey of over 600 people, Percy Hughes & Roberts asked respondents who they believe to be the most commonly affected by domestic violence, with 79% […]
Organisations representing and providing services for older and vulnerable people have rallied together to raise serious concerns around the Government’s online tool for creating Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs). An LPA is a powerful legal document that allows a person to appoint trusted individuals to make important decisions about care and finances on their behalf, […]
The average lawyer is at risk of receiving almost £10,000 less annual income than they want in retirement due to a failure to save enough throughout their working lives, according to research by Wesleyan*. Although lawyers expect to need a retirement income of £36,852 a year to live comfortably in retirement, lawyers are, on average, […]
Michael Hodgson, Employment Law Solicitor at Thorntons, comments on the attempt by Deliveroo couriers to gain union recognition. A number of Deliveroo couriers have announced they are seeking legal action in the hope to achieve trade union recognition and other workers’ rights. This marks the first serious union attempt to challenge the so-called gig economy […]
PwC comments ahead of 'Equal Pay Day' in the UK - which marks the date designated by the Fawcett Society that women are effectively working for free from 10th November to the end of the calendar year due to the gender pay gap. Laura Hinton, executive board member and head of people at PwC, said: […]
Before UK and EU officials get down to the detailed work of unpicking laws and drafting the transitional measures to govern Brexit, they may first have to deal with 40 billion euros the UK should pay into EU coffers to serve out its time as a full EU member. The money is expected to become […]
The timescales proposed by HMRC for the implementation of Making Tax Digital (MTD) is unrealistic and poses a substantial risk to SMEs, according to ICAS, the professional body for chartered accountants. While ICAS supports the overall objectives of MTD, which is set to become mandatory from April 2018, it has significant reservations about the planned […]
A leading Scottish law expert is urging people to check their wills as the law of succession sees its most significant overhaul in 50 years this November. According to Murray Etherington of Thorntons, some commentators view the reforms as a ‘tidying up exercise’ – but he has cautioned this is not the case and the […]
Germany’s small businesses are the most optimistic about their own economy according to the inaugural Global Business Monitor report from international business funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS). Nearly three-quarters (73%) of German SMEs say their national economy is performing well in the global study that surveyed business owners in the US, Germany, UK, Poland, Hong […]
The judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been predicted to 79% accuracy using an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers in UCL, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania. The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically analysing case […]
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