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Sep 2023
In the United Kingdom, legal charges play a crucial role in securing loans and protecting creditors’ interests. They are an integral part of business and the legal sphere, serving to establish priority rights and enforce repayment obligations on borrowers. In this article, Gaia Hinchliffe and Kyrran Dearnley-Porter in our Corporate and Commercial department aim to…
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Sep 2023
In the recent case of Miss Amanda Fischer v London United Busways Limited [2300846/2021], the tribunal heard claims relating to the use of slurs in the workplace and whether they were gender specific which were pleaded as gender re-assignment discrimination. Miss Amanda Fischer (the Claimant) was engaged by the Respondent (London United Busways Limited) as…
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Aug 2023
With certain exceptions, sections 61 and 63 of the Housing Act 2004 require a house in multiple occupation (HMO) to be licensed by the local housing authority. Under section 72 of the Housing Act 2004, a person commits an offence if they are in control of or managing an unlicensed HMO or otherwise fail to…
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Aug 2023
A covenant is an agreement in a deed by which one party promises to another that they will either do or not do something. A deed is a written agreement that is signed in a particular way. When the covenant concerns land, the party making the promise is imposing a burden on servient land and…
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Aug 2023
The Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act creates a statutory right for third parties to an insurance contract to claim against insurance companies where the insured has gone insolvent. Its main aims were to address the shortcomings of the 1930 Act, an example of one of those shortcomings being that in the 1930 Act, the…
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Aug 2023
Does a disagreement over a venue for a work Christmas party amount to discriminatory conduct? No, held the tribunal in the recent case of Mrs C Palladino v Reed in Partnership Ltd. In this case, the Claimant (Mrs C Palladino) worked for the Respondent (Reed in Partnership Ltd) as an HR advisor. At the time…
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