All Legal updates articles – Page 29
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Disabled people’s trusts and inheritance
Legislation heading to the Lords should open up new possibilities for disabled people who are the beneficiaries of wills.
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‘Revenge porn’ legal remedies
The unauthorised digital dissemination of intimate photos and videos is a misuse of information but the legal remedies are varied or in their infancy.
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Mitchell: conjoined appeals
An in-depth analysis of the Court of Appeal’s revised guidance on relief from sanction.
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Privacy and/or security?
The retention and disclosure of data represents a continuing threat to privacy if it is accidentally disseminated or misused.
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Pensions: enrolment and partnerships
LLP members should be considered ‘workers’ for the purposes of auto-enrolment legislation.
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Management receivership orders
Emma Jarvis on how the Supreme Court has brought management receivership orders back from the brink.
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Legal services orders
A recent decision should herald an increase in the use of legal services orders.
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UK Immigration Rules
Changes most relevant to business immigration and which affect new applications.
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Vulnerable people and competing rights
How does a Court of Protection judgment affect the media’s potential role in welfare proceedings?
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Interpreting wills
We look at an example of a misunderstanding of the purpose of a precedent following Lords’ decisions on interpretation.
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Working ‘when required’
Zero-hours contracts are being demonised but the debate is a complex one.
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Freedom of information
A recent judgment by the Upper Tribunal in a case concerning MPs’ expenses sheds more light on this difficult issue.
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Landlord’s rights on tenant insolvency
Those facing non-payment of rent from a tenant have a number of options.
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Civil procedure: relief from sanctions
An overview and guidance for solicitors currently dealing with the changes post-Mitchell.
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Local government: liberty and disability
Living arrangements for those with mental incapacity.
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Sentencing and professional conduct
A run through LASPO changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.