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Companies House has issued new guidance to help directors comply with regulations relating to identifying and recording who owns or controls the business. The owner or the person who makes the key decisions is known as a Person with Significant Control (PSC) or the ‘beneficial owner’. Companies must identify their PSCs when registering with Companies
Large employers who’ve missed the deadline for reporting on their gender pay gap have been given extra time to comply – but they’ve been told they’ve entered the “last chance saloon” to avoid penalties. Private and voluntary sector employers with 250 or more staff were required to report the information by 4 April. The Equality
An office manager who resigned after being placed in a stressful and “intolerable situation” has been awarded £60,000 compensation. Mrs A Fletcher had worked for Ashby Lowery estate agents in Northampton since 2003. She acted as deputy to the owner Darren Wilson and was left in charge when he was away. She dealt with the
A divorced wife has prevented her ex-husband from selling the family home until their daughter has finished her education. The couple’s marriage broke down after 25 years together, and the husband’s business had gone into liquidation. The husband issued an application under the Family Procedure Rules 2010 for an interim order for the sale of
The government plans to create a new generation of town houses by making it easier to develop existing buildings. Housing Secretary Sajid Javid says the changes will ease pressure on valuable open spaces and help growing families who live in built up areas. Under the changes it will be easier to build upwards on existing
A woman has been granted an interim instalment from the estate of her deceased husband to ease her financial struggles. The woman had been married to a wealthy businessman. When he died, she sought to administer his estate. However, the deceased man’s son from his first marriage began proceedings to replace her as the administrator.
The parents of a sperm donor have been granted the right to see their biological grandchild. The case involved a same-sex couple and a friend who had agreed to donate his sperm, so they could have a baby. For the first few years of the child’s life, the donor saw him every week or fortnight
The death of inventor Trevor Baylis saddened many people who had seen him on TV or used one of the numerous products he created. Baylis was perhaps best known for his wind-up radio which he proudly showed off on BBC’s Tomorrow’s World. He developed it after seeing the difficulty that governments in poorer countries were
The government has outlined plans to provide more protection for small and medium-sized businesses who supply companies that become insolvent. It also wants to prevent directors from unfairly shielding themselves from the effects of insolvency. Ministers say that in the worst cases, directors can even profit from business failures while workers and small suppliers lose
An agency worker who was not provided with the ‘same basic working and employment conditions’ as regular employees has won his claim of unequal treatment. The case involved Mr D Kocur, who had been supplied to Royal Mail by an agency. He worked for the company for 12 weeks, triggering his entitlement to the same