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  July 27, 2018
A recent decision of the General Court of the European Union has highlighted the need to ensure that victims of harassment are not prevented by an employer from disclosing unlawful acts. In SQ –v- European Investment Bank, on 1 April 2008 the Bank hired SQ as an employee in an administrative role. Following the arrival of a new director in October 2014 the department in which she worked was restructured. Two years later she complained that the behaviour of the new director towards her constituted psychological harassment. The allegations included claims that he had belittled her, spoken to her inappropriately and treated her unfavourably in relation to others. The Bank upheld her complaint in part and requested the new director to apologise, but also informed the employee that the procedure was to remain strictly confidential, including within the Bank.
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  July 26, 2018
Our very own Claire Richardson has featured in today's Yorkshire Post where she was part of a roundtable debate on “wellbeing” strategies in the workplace. Claire is part of a HR group that The Law Society set up across the North of England to talk about all sorts of different HR issues. #debate #wellbeing #mentalhealth #letstalk
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  July 25, 2018
Ramsdens Solicitors are appealing for witnesses for the Kirklevington Detention Centre, Yarm, North Yorkshire, Medomsley Detention Centre, Consett, County Durham and Aldington Detention Centre, Kent. If you have any further information please contact Ramsdens' Child Abuse team.
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  July 23, 2018
The Supreme Court has recently ruled that restricting civil partnerships to same sex couples is discriminatory, and a breach of an individual’s Human Rights. At present, heterosexual couples may only marry, while same-sex couples can either marry or take up a civil partnership.
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  July 20, 2018
On 17th July 2018, the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee began examining the Domestic Abuse Bill. As part of the inquiry, the Committee intend to explore not only what should be included in the legislation, but also what other non-legislative policies should be included, for the legislation to be the most effective.
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  July 19, 2018
An article out in yesterday’s Daily Mail Online has indicated that up to 1.5 million people have been sold “rip-off wills” by our high street banks. You may recall that during the 1990’s and early 2000’s a number of banks were offering will writing services as an added extra to their accounts and mortgage deals. Some banks offered free wills provided that you had a certain account with them or offered wills at what was considered a discounted rate compared to those offered by solicitors and will specialists. Although initially confirming your wishes about what would happen to your money and property when you passed away, some of these wills included onerous provisions in the small print that could end up leaving your proposed beneficiaries with a lot less than what you had intended.
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  July 18, 2018
On the 21st January 2018 at 5pm, Jake Stanley aged 3 years old was taken to Whiston Hospital in Merseyside following a seizure that he had at home. Whilst travelling to the hospital, Jake suffered another seizure and was attached to a ventilator a short time later. Jake had stopped fitting at this time. A staff nurse had prepared an injection of undiluted phenytoin (anti-seizure medication) whilst Dr Thomas Whitby was out of the room, failing to label it.
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  July 16, 2018
A recent freedom of information request has revealed that the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) carried out over 40% more investigations in the 2017/2018 financial year in to the actions of attorneys and deputies compared with the previous year. These investigations take place when there are allegations or concerns of abuse of such roles.
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