Consumer rights queries can cause a lot of frustration, especially if you are struggling to engage with the company about the problem you...

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GPT-3 is a piece of software that can predict what the next word will be in the specific text. It can repeatedly do that, to the point...

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there...

Legal authority is a well-known “issue” in the cryptocurrency and block-chain world. For years, strong idealistic proponents of...

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Disability Disabled workers may be selected for redundancy because of the employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments to allow for...

Pregnancy/maternity dismissals Redundancy dismissal because of pregnancy or maternity is automatically unfair. No minimum qualifying...

Elements of consultation Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey...

Source: section 135, ERA: employee has basic right to redundancy payment Those excluded from payments: · Independent contractors · ...

British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

The Shrewsbury Pickets In the case of Warren and others v R [2021] EWCA Crim 413, Court of Appeal, the facts, in summary, were that all...

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 created a new criminal offence of corporate manslaughter. The Act enables...

On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter...

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Police removal of plants from cannabis factory; personal protective equipment. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992...

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British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...

The appeal to the Supreme Court concerned claims by 40,000 claimants in Nigeria. They alleged that they had suffered damage resulting...