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- 2014... The Year That Was...
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- Community Infrastructure Levy: Breathing space for changes of use
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- Costs orders Against Non-Parties
- BIS announces review of employment status
- Changes to the Intestacy Rules
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- Boyes Turner's Business Support & Insolvency team win Insolvency Firm of the Year award
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- October changes
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- Party penalised for refusal to mediate
- Time off to accompany at antenatal appointments
- Consumers' Rights to claim damages for misleading or aggressive trading
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- Changes to Family Friendly Rights (Part 2)
- Changes to Family Friendly Rights (Part 1)
- New Immigration code of practice for employers
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- The Jackson Reforms - One year on
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- Penalties: a modern approach
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- The consumer contracts (Information, cancellation and additional charges) regulations 2013
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- EU wide injunction granted against Amazon for infringing LUSH
- IP Act gets Royal Assent
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- The consumer contracts (Information, cancellation and additional charges) regulations 2013
- The consumer contracts (Information, cancellation and additional charges) regulations 2013
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- Two common questions
- Surrogacy Rights
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- Final written warnings
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- ET R.I.P…?
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- National Minimum Wage Crackdown!
- The right to be accompanied
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- Refusing to mediate re-visited
- My 2014 HR ‘To Do’ List…
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