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HM Revenue and Customs have updated their car benefit calculator, so you can see what your benefit in kind for having a company car will cost you. We doubt you’ll like the answer!
The calculator can be found at
Recent allegations of bullying within 10 Downing Street have raised the profile of a subject which receives relatively little coverage outside the employment tribunals, in spite of indications that instances of intimidatory behaviour are widespread in the workplace.
Workplace bullying is not only unpleasant and demotivating but it has also been claimed to cost British business...
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Employers are reminded that a new ‘fit note’ regime replaces the current system, whereby doctors issue hand-written sick notes, from 6 April 2010.
Under the new system, a doctor will provide a patient who is off work for more than seven days on account of a medical condition with a computer-generated medical statement providing, where appropriate, information on how their...
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Sexual harassment in the workplace is defined as any unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity or the creation of an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. It includes any unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that violates a person’s dignity at work.
In a recent case, a...
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A ‘super-rich’ husband will be regretting that he shared a computer system with his wife’s brothers after she was able to access the system and extract data from it. The husband challenged her right to the data but the court agreed that she could make use of thousands of emails and seven computer files to which no claim of legal privilege could be substantiated.
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A man who was ordered to pay his wife £125,000 in maintenance has been successful in obtaining the agreement of the court to recalculate the payment after a private detective produced evidence that his ex-wife had set up house with another man, with whom she had a child.
The Court of Appeal concluded that the High Court judge, Mr Justice Singer, had erred when reaching his...
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Divorce is almost never easy and the financial negotiations can be protracted and difficult, particularly when there are business interests involved. In this article we consider some of the issues surrounding divorce for company directors. In the first section, we deal with directors who are, effectively, senior employees of the companies of which they are directors. We refer to them as...
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Supermarket giant Tesco has settled a personal injury claim following the death of a pensioner who had, a few months earlier, suffered terrible injuries when she was caught in a sliding door at the company’s Long Row store in Nottingham.
Margaret Buxton, 84, was knocked to the floor and trapped in the supermarket’s sliding doors, which were thought to have had a faulty...
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Parliamentary candidate Claire Perry visited ABD at our Marlborough Business Park offices to discuss current and forthcoming legislation, and changes to the law which her party had promised, including a review of Home Information Packs.
Ms Perry, who is the Conservatives’ prospective parliamentary candidate for the Devizes constituency, spent 90 minutes in the company of...
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A recent planning case in the Court of Appeal produced what the judge described as a ‘surprising outcome’.
Alan Beesley had been granted planning permission by Welwyn Hatfield Council to build a barn on green belt land, for agricultural use only. The Council granted his request on the basis that his application stated that the building was to be used only for storing...
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