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The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has hailed the result of a ballot by the European Parliament to allow mandatory safety requirements for new lorries. The European Parliament’s Transport Committee has voted in favour of proposed changes to the Vehicle Weights & Dimensions Directive. This would mean lorry cabs can be redesigned to […]
The Scottish Government has announced that the High Hedges Act will come into effect on 1 April 2014. Under same home owners and occupiers, after having tried all reasonable means to resolve the issue themselves, will be able to apply to a local authority to take action against hedges over 2 metres in height on […]
Registers of Scotland latest statistics relating to the residential property market shows substantial increases in the market which seems to reflect more signs of recovery. Registers of Scotland have reported that Edinburgh recorded the highest rise in number of sales with an increase of 24.9% in 2013 in comparison with the previous year. Edinburgh in […]
A scaffolding firm has been fined after a painter and decorator was injured when he fell through an unprotected ladder opening on scaffolding at a block of flats in Hemel Hempstead. The 48-year-old suffered a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder as a result of the incident. The court heard that whilst erecting the scaffolding, the […]
A disabled passenger has lost his legal bid for compensation for injury to feelings over the way he was treated by Thomas Cook staff on a flight to Zante in 2008. Mr Stott is paralysed from the shoulders down and a permanent wheelchair user. He has double incontinence and uses a catheter. When travelling by […]
New research has revealed that ‘Accident Anxiety’ is prevalent on Britain’s roads, with 79% of drivers describing themselves as worried about driving – hardly surprising with 29 million feeling a crash is just around the corner. According to new research released by Allianz Insurance, this ‘Accident Anxiety’ is mostly caused by tailgating (45%), aggressive ‘road […]
The family of a Renfrewshire man who was hit by a car and fatally injured have been awarded around £100,000 in damages at the Court of Session, reports the Scotsman. Gavin Currie had been out with friends when he was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing. He was taken to hospital in Paisley […]
The Internet is now an essential aspect of almost every business but in legal terms, it creates significant risks, not least because it is so fast moving and so difficult for a business owner to control, in terms of legal and business risk. The internet also presents challenges because the law is struggling to keep […]
An Aberdeen-based demolition firm has been fined for safety failings after a worker was seriously injured by falling cast iron guttering. The 61-year-old broke his right arm, seven ribs, and a vertebra; punctured his lung and cut his head in the incident at disused buildings at Aberdeen Harbour. He was working with colleagues in the […]
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee recently published its report into maternity services in England. The report highlights that when NHS maternity care goes wrong, the impact can be devastating for those concerned and costly for the taxpayer, with around £480 million spent on clinical negligence cover – equivalent to £700 per birth. The […]
An employee handbook is an important document as it should provide clear guidance on how you want your business to operate. The policies and procedures in the handbook will help with employee relations, which in turn improves productivity and efficiency. There are some other very compelling and important reasons why we suggest that employers should […]
Since it became compulsory to wear seat belts in the front seat on 31st January 1983, fatalities in vehicles have fallen to an all-time low, say the RAC. RAC analysis of 30 years of Department for Transport road casualty statistics shows that at the end of that year 2,245 people lost their lives in vehicles […]
We were recently instructed by Mrs X following an accident which occurred within a national retailer’s premises. Mrs X sustained injury through the negligence of the retailer who had used defective equipment within their store. The case had previously been with another firm of solicitors who withdrew from acting for her after liability was denied […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) recently issued guidance urging employers to introduce a clear policy on staff using personal devices for work. With over 60% of the UK now owning a smart phone, many employees are taking advantage of the flexibility of using their own devices to work from home, while travelling or at the […]
An overhaul of guidance on working at height is being launched as part of the Government’s long-term economic plan to abolish or improve outdated, burdensome or over-complicated regulations that waste businesses’ time and money. More than a million British businesses and ten million workers are estimated to carry out jobs involving some form of work […]
The Court of Appeal has held that clauses in a share purchase agreement providing that, in the event of a breach of the seller’s restrictive covenants, the buyer’s obligation to pay deferred consideration would cease and the buyer would be entitled to acquire the remainder of the seller’s shares at a price based on net […]
There is unlikely to be a definitive answer any time soon on changes to protective awards which come under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. The Act provides that collective redundancies relate to the establishment rather than a business as a whole. This would mean that if a company was made up […]
A Scottish health board has recently been fined for a health and safety failing which lead to several workers being exposed to the dangerous substance over a period of 7 seven years. The Sheriff Court in Glasgow held that the Greater Glasgow Health Board had failed to properly manage the risk of exposure to the […]
A Sheriff Principal has recently ruled that courts can grant authorisation to a solicitor to execute a will on behalf of an adult with incapacity where there is sufficient evidence that the Adult had capacity when the testamentary writing was drafted. The process by which this is done is by intervention order authorising the execution […]
A fatal accident Inquiry has begun at Aberdeen Sheriff Court into a North Sea helicopter crash. The fatal crash in April 2009 claimed the lives of all 16 men on board. Various individuals are to be called to give evidence over an estimated period of 6 weeks. Those to be called to give evidence include […]