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Those court and tribunal fee increases - including a 75% probate application hike- which will be good to avoid but move fast.
New regime for data infringement complaints.
Unfair dismissals: upcoming changes.
Wives and others versus Bankrupts' creditors.
Creditors to be identified on the Register of Judgments Orders and Fines.
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Catch up with ease on the latest law through my December 'Law Watch' video. There's my take on the dilemma facing private landlords. Do they take steps to obtain possession of the dwellings they have rented out before a major part of the Renters' Rights Act 2025 comes into force on 01 May 2026 - or not? And there's my take on
Pull yourself away from the box sets and suffer a few minutes in my company as we catch up with some of the latest legal developments.
Increased awards for tribunal equality, unfair dismissal, tipping and other employment type claims. An express scheme for trying contested financial remedy cases. And some new consumer laws.
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This time we look at the new code of practice on firing and rehiring (ahead of the government outlawing it). How to get full legal aid under the 'exceptional funding' scheme and the latest application stats. The reduction in the Court Funds Office special account rate which impacts on the calculation of personal injury special losses interest. And the danger of remaining shtum when asked by an opponent to enter into out-of-court mediation.
It's free. It's the latest law - employment tribunal award limits up, new leave rights for carers and a spat with Boots over the right to a replacement for a defective product. And it doesn't hurt. Click on below.
I'm back with a haircut and what's happening in the law which could affect - and benefit - YOU. Included are changes in during April 2023.
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Try and stay in your job until 06 April 2022. If you fired on or after that date, the ceiling for the compensation an employment tribunal can award you for an unfair dismissal is increased by a handsome 4.9%. This is in line with the rise in the retail prices index between September 2020 and September 2021.
The same level of increase is applied across the board for the various types of employment complaints that can be made but none of the increases are retrospective. They apply to the employer's misdeeds which are taken to have arisen after 5 April 2022.
For these hikes, you can kiss (or kick, if you are an employer) the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2022 (SI 2022/182) which, for example, also sees what is deemed to be one week's pay - and this limit is used for the calculation of redundancy payments and the basic and additional award for unfair dismissal - rises from £544 to £571. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal goes up by £4,385 to £93,878.
All this applies to England, Wales and Scotland.