A former employee of Enterprise Rent-A-Car (UK) Ltd has won her unfair dismissal case against the company – a dismissal which was deemed to have been issued following the employee’s expressed intention to take adoption leave.
Regional law firm Freeth Cartwright has been accredited with Lexcel, the Law Society’s practice management quality mark – a standard that will help it improve its service to clients and its own employees.
Freeth Cartwright achieved the nationally recognised quality mark, following a year of preparation and assessment. Throughout this assessment period, the firm had to demonstrate that it met the Law Society’s Practice Management Standards in eight key areas of its business, from financial and people management to structures and policies and client care.
According to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) figures* published in 2006, Migrant Workers now make up 12.9% of the construction industry. Below, The Wilson Organisation (Wilsons) and Freeth Cartwright LLP, specialists in the construction industry, highlight key issues for the industry from an insurance and legal perspective.
Did you hear the one about the law firm which is sponsoring an evening of laughter at one of the UK’s most popular comedy festivals?
Well, it’s no joke – Leicester law firm Freeth Cartwright is doing just that. It has teamed up with the Leicester Comedy Festival to sponsor an evening of laughter with celebrated comedian and TV personality Jimmy Carr.
Green-fingered volunteers from law firm Freeth Cartwright have been helping to spruce up a Nottingham school.
Staff from the Cumberland Court offices have been weeding and laying bark in flowerbeds that surround the junior playground at Scotholme Primary School, in Fisher Street, Hyson Green.
As announcements are made that house prices are continuing to rise in 2007, leading regional law firm Freeth Cartwright has acknowledged that new planning guidelines will give councils more scope to determine the types and number of houses built in their areas.
Whilst this is aimed at reducing the housing crisis, the impact may be the reverse as landowners may be reluctant to bring their land forward for development if they are unable to build what they perceive the market demands.
This Bill was given its first reading in the Commons on 12th December 2006, seeking as it does to enact many of the provisions of the Local Government White Paper / ‘Strong and Prosperous Communities’.
Whilst the majority of the Companies Act will not come into force until October 2008, provisions relating to the way companies communicate with shareholders and others will come into force on 20 January 2007.
Under a new directive, there is also, from 1 January 2007, a requirement to put certain company information on all electronic communications.