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High Court backs Kendal wind farm

The High Court has rejected an appeal by campaigners and farmers against a wind farm near Kendal in Cumbria, on a ridge of hills between...

Cap on redundancy payments not age discrimination

A cap on redundancy payments, which limited them to the amount an employee would have earned had he remained in the post until the age...

Throw us a bone

About ten years ago my local authority decided that it needed rather more joined up thinking when it came to resolving the difficulties faced by...

Spare a thought

When it comes to settling small RTA claims, the DJ does not take requests, writes David Oldham

Taking the sugar pill

“When your baby dies, don't sue me,” warned the angry obstetrician when my wife (as she then wasn't) refused his advice to stay in hospital...

"Bitter disappointment" as training contract grant scheme is scrapped

Legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly is scrapping the training contract grant scheme with immediate effect.

School support worker cannot sue for libel

A school inclusion manager sacked for viewing pornography cannot sue for libel on the basis of a letter sent to the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)...

Gay asylum seekers do not have to "pretend sexuality does not exist"

A shake-up of asylum hearings has been prompted by the Supreme Court's ruling on homosexual applicants.