The new year tends to bring good intentions, new beginnings, and exciting plans for the year ahead. We have had time to reflect over the festive period and the time away from our everyday life can provide us with the opportunity to look at things differently and have more energy to tackle projects. Unfortunately, during […]
Are you experiencing a period of change in your business? Have you reached a point where you feel you have no option other than to make employees redundant? Do you have the knowhow and all the necessary legal documentation in place? Thankfully most employers do not find themselves in this situation very often as any […]
Lexadeen’s employment solicitors have an excellent track record in all aspects of employment law. We listen to our clients and use this insight and our legal experience to deliver the best possible results. We have an open, friendly and responsive approach ensuring that your needs are paramount. We are representing a client currently who alleges […]
We are proud of the high quality legal advice our highly experienced employment, personal injury and immigration lawyers provide. We always take time to listen to each individual case and try to make our clients feel at ease. It’s always nice when our clients are kind enough to write to us and provide us with […]
Junior doctors have lost a judicial review challenging the legality of a controversial new contract, which is now set to be introduced next week. In a judgment published on Wednesday, Mr Justice Green rejected arguments presented at the high court by five junior doctors that the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, had exceeded his powers. The […]
We pride ourselves on the quality of legal advice we provide and always try to make our clients feel at ease and explain procedures as clearly as possible. So it’s always nice when we get positive feedback. A recent client was kind enough to write to us and we thought we’d include an excerpt from […]
Increasingly, we are seeing employers using settlement agreements (formerly called compromise agreements) when an employee and an employer are in disagreement with each other or there are issues surrounding the employment. These can often be used as an attempt to manoeuvre an employee out of the company whilst avoiding any legal action. This must always […]
The tragedy of domestic abuse is that it is increasing and in frighteneing numbers. The statistics are always shocking: one in four women and one in six men suffer domestic abuse after the age of 16. Two women a week are killed by a partner or ex-partner. For some people, work is the only safe […]
Is it classed as direct discrimination if a private employer prohibits a Muslim employee from wearing a headscarf in the workplace? Not if the prohibition stems from a general neutrality policy, pronounces advocate General Kokott ahead of the European Court of Justice’s first judgment on religious discrimination (under the Equality Directive, Achbita v Centrum voor […]
This week sees the shock announcement that the well-known high street store BHS has gone into liquidation. Employees have been facing weeks of uncertainty but were apparently unaware of the imminent closure. It is reported that all 163 shops will close and be sold off to other retailers, resulting in the loss of 8,000 permanent […]