In this issue:

• Pay in lieu of holiday accrued during sick leave
• National Minimum Wage Update
• Additional Paternity Leave Update
• Salary Sacrifice Voucher Update
• Ask the Expert - withholding wages

A Court of Appeal Judgement preventing the Courts from turning a blind eye to divorcing couples using unlawfully obtained financial evidence in court proceedings, could cost the average couple thousands of pounds warns solicitors Withy King. Until now, a...

The inquest of Luke Bitmead, who jumped to his death from a multi-storey car park in Swindon, has been adjourned until October to allow the coroner to consider his verdict. Luke, who was 34 at the time of his death, died on 27 October 2006 hours after...

In this issue:

• New technique ensures pets have picture perfect health
• Withy King's notable deals
• Relocating a Business?
• What the CDR Team can do for you
• Withy King's Corporate and Commercial team welcomes a high profile corporate lawyer

In this issue;

• Case Study - Dismissal letters later withdrawn still effective
• New Legislation Update - Additional Paternity Leave
• Tribunal Claims increase again
• Ask the Expert - What is the legal position regarding sabbaticals?

The abolition of the Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS’s) for development planning by the Coalition Government represents a return to Ground Zero for planning in this country, writes Edward Cooke , a partner at West law firm Withy King. Development...

There has been significant recent case law on whether employees on sick leave:  continue to accrue statutory holiday while on sick leave are entitled to take holiday while on sick leave are entitled to carry over holiday where they...

A former bricklayer, who was paralysed after a car accident left him a paraplegic, has won the right to receive ongoing compensation for the rest of his life. Anthony Bennett, now 26, was a passenger in a car being driven by a friend, when it crashed...

 With the Government’s cancellation of a swathe of BSF projects and Gove’s repeated apologies as to the accuracy (or rather inaccuracy) of the all important “List”, public procurement is in the news. There are rumblings of...