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The introduction of tougher electrical safety standards for rented properties has been put forward for public consultation by Housing Minister Heather Wheeler. The move comes after recent data revealed that tenants in the private housing sector were at a higher risk of electrical shocks and fires caused by electrical faults than those in social housing.
The government has announced it’s providing a £300m fund to help the 10 million Britons alive today who can expect to live to 100 or more. The extra money will include grants for research into age-related illnesses such as dementia. The ‘healthy ageing programme’ will drive the development of new products and services to help
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to become enforceable from the 25 of May 2018. The GDPR creates a wider definition of personal data than the Data Protection Act. It covers all organisations in the public, private and non-profit sector and applies throughout the EU and beyond, even if the business itself
A landlord has won its appeal against a court ruling that a man who had made alterations to his flat and upset neighbours had not breached his tenancy agreement. The case involved a tenant who suffered with a paranoid personality disorder. He moved into the flat with his two dogs. He made various changes to
Two directors have been ordered to repay £758,020 after they acted unlawfully in removing funds from their business to avoid paying creditors. The company installed solar panels, and in its early years it benefited from a government incentive scheme. However, it got into difficulties and went into liquidation. The High Court heard that the directors
A 91-year-old man has won a longstanding legal battle to be allowed to buy the home he shared with his partner. The couple had lived together in the home for 20 years. After the partner died, the man discovered she had made a will leaving all her estate to her daughter and nothing to him.
A firm that bought a clothing business from a group of family members has won a court injunction to prevent them setting up in competition. The court heard that the family had sold their business for a substantial sum. The new owners employed the family members under contracts containing restrictive covenants preventing them setting up
A landlord has won its appeal against a court ruling that a man who had made alterations to his flat and upset neighbours had not breached his tenancy agreement. The case involved a tenant who suffered with a paranoid personality disorder. He moved into the flat with his two dogs. He made various changes to
The number of companies entering insolvency in England and Wales rose to more than 17,000 last year, according to research by the trade body R3. That was an increase of 2.5% compared with 2016. Duncan Swift, deputy vice-president of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, said: “The slight rise in corporate insolvencies across 2017 as
The government has ordered a review of how well employers are helping ethnic minorities to progress in the workplace. The new study will assess what steps businesses have taken to remove barriers highlighted in the recent McGregor-Smith Review into black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) participation and progression in the workplace. It found that the