The Family Court has divided a divorcing couple’s marital assets in roughly equal shares, although they had spent so much on their acrimonious dispute that there was very little money left. The couple had been married for nearly 22 years and had three children before separating and embarking on financial remedy proceedings. There had been
Royal Mail has lost its appeal over the employment status of some of its agency workers. The case involved Mr D Kocur and other workers who were supplied to Royal Mail by Angard Staffing Solutions. The Employment Tribunal heard evidence that Kocur was recruited by Angard as a “flexible resourcing employee” in 2015. His letter
It is very difficult for employees to obtain reliable legal advice on their employment rights without incurring significant costs. Particularly for employees who have recently found themselves unemployed, even a few hundred pounds for advice can be prohibitive. Simran Lalli in our employment team has produced this excellent overview guide to employment rights to help employees understand
Now that the June quarter day is upon us many landlords with tenants in arrears have been waiting for further announcements. The government has now announced that it will be extending the moratorium on forfeiture and the restrictions on issuing statutory demands and winding up petitions for non payment of rent from 30 June until 30
As we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel of the COVID-19 crisis, planning for a return to a “new normal” is key to ensuring a fluid transition for your staff and students. In the document below we have highlighted some common questions which have arisen for our clients in the private school sector. Download
The global outbreak of COVID-19 left many Brits in a difficult position due to travel plans being disrupted or cancelled. A disruption of this scale has never before been experienced by our travel industry, and some have commented that COVID-19 makes the disruption caused by the Icelandic volcanic cloud in 2010 seem like a walk
The small claims process provides litigants with a procedure that can be used to bring low value claims. It is important to be aware that whilst the “small claims court” is often referred to, there is in fact no separate court for small claims. Instead, “small claims court” is used to describe the procedure that
Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has announced that the Government’s ban on eviction proceedings will be extended until 23rd August 2020. This is a two month extension which brings the moratorium on evictions to five months in total. Mr Jenrick tweeted “Eviction hearings will not be heard in courts until the end of August & nobody
Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, remote hearings in England and Wales were few and far between and the vast majority of hearings (whether civil, criminal or family) were heard face-to-face in court rooms up and down the country. This was the case whether the court was dealing with a short 10 minute possession claim,
The Coronavirus Act 2020 and introduction of a new practice direction in the court has had the effect of (i) increasing the notice period under s21 and s8 possession claims to three months (see Schedule 29 of Coronavirus Act 2020); and (ii) staying all possession claims (see paragraph 2 of CPR PD 51Z). In practice,