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    FCA Proposes New Rules for Payments Firms

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing changes to the safeguarding regime that applies to payments and e-money firms, in order to better protect customers. Funds held by payments firms are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation...

    Intangible Assets Deduction Not Available to LLP Members

    Where a partnership's members include one or more companies, the profits of the partnership are calculated as if its trade was carried on by a company, by virtue of Section 1259 of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 . Recently, the Upper Tribunal (UT) ruled on...

    ET Has Jurisdiction to Hear 'Same Disadvantage' Claim

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that where a provision, criterion or practice (PCP) puts people with a protected characteristic at a disadvantage, protection from indirect discrimination under Section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 can...

    Homeowner Defeats Application to Modify Restrictive Covenant

    A homeowner has successfully argued before the Upper Tribunal (UT) that an application by the owner of adjoining land to modify a restrictive covenant should be refused . A small cottage had originally stood on the adjoining land, but had been badly...

    Head Landlord Wins Appeal Against Rent Repayment Order

    A man who let a house to a company which in turn let rooms in it to tenants has succeeded in his appeal against a rent repayment order after the Upper Tribunal (UT) concluded that he was not the tenants' immediate landlord and therefore no such order could...

    Court Authorises Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment

    When deciding whether it is in a patient's best interests to continue life-sustaining treatment, the courts will look to the patient's views and beliefs, where known, as well as the medical evidence. In a sad case concerning a 66-year-old man in a state of...

    Home Improvement Company Fined for Unsolicited Calls

    A company that provides installation services for home improvement products has been issued with a monetary penalty by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after making thousands of unsolicited marketing calls to numbers registered with the Telephone...

    Half-Brother Entitled to Benefit from Family Trust

    The High Court has recently ruled that a man is entitled to benefit under a family trust despite finding that he was not the biological child of the settlor. The trust had been set up by a businessman in 2003 and included as its beneficiaries 'the...

    Deductions from Wages Pursuant to Court Order Not Unlawful

    An Employment Tribunal (ET) has confirmed that a construction company which made deductions from an employee's wages in accordance with a court order did not do so unlawfully ( Rainford v Stepnell Ltd ). The employee was the subject of an attachment of...

    Family Court Rules on Meaning of Pre-Nuptial Agreement

    A pre-nuptial agreement (PNA) will be taken into account when a couple divorces, as long as it has been freely entered into and it is fair to hold the parties to it. Recently, the Family Court was called upon to decide how the terms of a PNA affected the...
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