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String of No Win No Fee Successes for School Staff

30th January 2013
Recent figures have shown that UK teaching staff made over 300 no win no fee claims and won more than £4 million in compensation in 2011. These figures mark a significant rise in claims made by school staff, prompting questions over whether schools are be...
Author: Keylaw
Legal

Breach of Employment Contract

27th June 2012
In the event that you believe that your employer has acted unfairly towards you or has made changes to your work or job without your agreement, then your employer could be legally liable for breach of contract. The employment law in the UK understands...
Author: Clark_Taylor
Business Law

Introduction to OHSAS 18001 Management Systems

28th March 2012
Introduction The industries are required to grow to satisfy the need of the society, but at the same time they need to do all of this in an occupational health and safety acceptable manner. Of late, industries have been reactive towards OHSAS manageme...
Author: John Mills
Legal

Why Employee Handbook is important for Employee?

22nd February 2012
What is an employee handbook? An employee handbook is the most important document for any new employee in a Company. It provides the employee an insight of the Company, its dealings, various policies, expected code of conduct, expectation of the Comp...
Author: ajayshirma
Legal

Confiscation Proceedings Need Not Always Take Your House Away!

21st February 2012
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 has meant that confiscation proceedings are much more routinely brought these days for all manner of crimes. Now the Crown can assume that everything you have and everything that went through your bank accounts over the last...
Author: Mark Jenner
Legal

7 Steps To Making A Work Accident Claim

10th January 2012
Copyright (c) 2011 Julie Glynn Before you decide to make a work accident claim, you need to know exactly how the process works, allowing you to understand what is happening at each stage. Although every case will differ, there are 7 main steps to f...
Author: Julie Glynn
Personal Injury

Accident Claims - not as daunting as the accident itself!

15th November 2011
Almost all of us have been injured in an accident at some point or other. Usually we only sustain minor injuries, but an unfortunate minority sustain more serious injuries. We normally need a doctor to treat injuries caused by the accident and leave ourse...
Author: Jessica Parker
Business Law

Do employers need to teach staff about health and safety?

19th October 2011
The Health and Safety Executive in the United Kingdom recently recorded over 200 people every year are killed whilst executing their working duties. More than 2 million suffer illness, injury or disease which is a cause or aggravated by their working cond...
Author: BeckyJennings
Legal

Scaffolding and ladder safety on a construction site.

17th October 2011
Through being a no win, no fee accident at work legal firm, we come across many injured claimants who have hurt themselves on a badly managed construction site. A large proportion of construction accidents occur due to people falling from scaffolding or l...
Author: StephLawson
Legal

Workplace Accidents

12th October 2011
A recent report revealed work accidents in Scotland in 2010 cost £187 million, despite the fact the Health and Safety Executive has strict regulations in place to prevent such events from happening. This worrying statistic shows that employers are repeate...
Author: Richard Godden
Law

Injury Compensation: A Simple Guide

28th September 2011
Injury compensation is a way to reclaim the losses you’ve suffered after an injury or accident because of another’s negligence. These could be financial, for example loss of earnings because you’ve taken time off work, or they could be physical, where you...
Author: Jessica Parker
Business Law

Safety failings result in death of worker

22nd August 2011
In previous generations, the emphasis on workers' rights and the responsibility of employers to protect them from harm was nowhere near as strong as it is now. However, over the years, the approach to such matters has evolved and these days it is unaccept...
Author: Tom Jui
Accident claims

Automobile accident Helpline, Motorcycle Crash, Accident Helpline Insurance policy

20th July 2011
The mixture of hefty machinery, noise, as well as moving vehicles for instance fork lift trucks indicates that, unfortunately, production line accidents can come about.Typically, factory accidents will likely be relatively small-scale happenings where by ...
Author: Danny Wise
Personal Injury

Preventing Industrial Injuries

28th June 2011
Recent statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that industrial injuries consistently account for the highest number of workplace injuries of any occupation. Industrial injuries are workplace injuries that take place within an ‘indus...
Author: Jessica Parker
No Win No Fee

The two main types of injury claims that are relevant to injurys in the place of work

17th June 2011
One of the more advertised and publicised sorts of injury or accident is the variety that occurs in work or during working hours. This type of injury or accident is typically caused by the fault of an firm, worker or an inability to keep to the health and...
Author: anton
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