Withy King News

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Last year we advised that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had extended until May 2012 the time for website owners to comply with the new EU "Cookie Law" brought about by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC...
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The recent decision by the Administrators of Peacocks not to honour gift vouchers purchased before the axe fell is likely to further anger consumers who are feeling under increasing pressure and who feel, perhaps with some justification, that the...
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When a supplier to a marquee company was not paid for goods it had supplied, the directors told the supplier that the company was waiting for an insurance claim to be settled, after which payments would be made as usual. In reality, there was no insurance...
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A former bricklayer from Cornwall, who was paralysed after a car accident left him a paraplegic, has won a landmark legal battle to safeguard the annual payments he is entitled to receive for the rest of his life. Anthony Bennett, now 27, who lives in...
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2011 was another busy year for the Employment team at Withy King! Over the last 12 months, as well as advising our new and existing clients on all of their employment queries we were out and about delivering presentations on hot topics including the Agency...
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Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (now superseded by the Equality Act 2010 ), when deciding whether or not an employer took sufficient steps to comply with its duty to make reasonable adjustments to remove a disadvantage faced by a disabled...