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Jun 2017
The Residential Nil Rate Band, or RNRB for short, came into effect for deaths occurring from the 6th April 2017 and is an additional allowance for Inheritance Tax (IHT) for property. When a person dies the first £325,000 of their estate (or £650,000 for married couples) is tax free; anything else on top of this…
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Jun 2017
Following a review by the National Audit Office, it has emerged that thousands of patient records have been left to pile up in a warehouse, with cancer test results being amongst the documents that were missing. The company responsible for the mix-up, NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), is part-owned by the Department of Health, and…
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Jun 2017
The machine will shortly arrive at Christie Hospital in Manchester and will be available from August 2018, meaning patients needing the therapy will no longer have to travel abroad for the treatment. Proton beam therapy (PBT) uses charged particles, rather than x-rays, to deliver radiotherapy for cancer patients, allowing high energy protons to target tumours…
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Jun 2017
In a recent case the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether it was incorrect for a tribunal to find that an employee’s dismissal was fair when the employer had failed to call witness evidence of the appeal stage of the process followed at the hearing. When considering whether a dismissal is unfair, once the employer…
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Jun 2017
The Employment Tribunal (ET) was recently tasked with deciding whether an employee should receive the same pay entitlements to a female employee taking maternity leave. The employee alleged direct and indirect sex discrimination in relation to the employer’s practices. The employee transferred to the employer in 2013. Female employees who transferred were entitled to 14…
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Jun 2017
On 21 June 2017 the legislation the government intends to introduce or carry over into the 2017-19 Parliament was set out in the Queen’s Speech 2017. Within the announcements were various matters which will have implications from an employment law context. National Living Wage It was announced that the National Living Wage will increase to…
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