From The Times February 16, 2009 Thousands of drivers with photo licence face fines of up to £1,000 Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent More than 40,000 drivers risk fines of up to £1,000 because they have failed to renew their photocard driving licences. Many will not have realised that photocards expire after ten years, unlike the old green paper licences, which were valid until the driver was 70. Drivers risk prosecution if stopped by police and may also find that their insurers refuse to pay out on claims they make. The problem…
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 makes it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of age when advertising to fill a vacancy, or when dismissing staff or making them redundant.
An accident at the workplace can be bad enough but the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) can use its teeth if you try to hide the facts. A company manager was sent to prison recently, not for the accident at work but for misleading the Executive, and covering up the facts. HSE has announced that over the next six months it will be targeting scrap yards and waste metal recycling plants.
An accident at the workplace can be bad enough but the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) can use its teeth if you try to hide the facts. A company manager was sent to prison recently, not for the accident at work but for misleading the Executive, and covering up the facts. HSE has announced that over the next six months it will be targeting scrap yards and waste metal recycling plants.
Review your banking arrangements and read the small print. Often there is a verbal agreement with the bank manager, to draw down funds or on the length of an overdraft, which can suddenly disappear overnight (as the bank manager might have done). Get it in writing. A sudden reduction or withdrawal of funds can be catastrophic. Resist any attempt to change the interest rate e.g. an amount over LIBOR (the London Inter Bank Offer Rate) rather than base rate.
Recent court decisions make it clear it is worth signing a pre-nuptial agreement (a pre-civil partnership agreement in the case of homosexual couples). To make it valid, four questions need answering ‘Yes’:- 1. Do both parties understand the agreement? 2. Were the parties properly advised? 3. Was there any undue pressure put on the other party to sign? 4. Was there full disclosure of assets? There must be no duress, both sides must be legally advised and all the important facts known to both. Unless it is manifestly unfair, and of course children are never…
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