Press Release 21 September 2021: Children and Family Lawyer Julia Cluley joins Valemus Law
Valemus Law, the UK-wide business and family law firm, is very pleased to confirm that Julia Cluley, has joined its Divorce and Family Law practice.
Redundancy, data protection and the curse of the Data Subject Access Request
Employment Tribunals, faced with two hostile adversaries, are required calmly to reflect on the evidence before them and to determine both the facts of a claim and the appropriate legal interpretation to place on those facts.
What the lease of your flat doesn’t tell you #3
In this article, I look at the position when the landlord decides he has had enough and tries to sell the property over the heads of the flat owners.
What the lease of your flat doesn’t tell you #2
In the previous article, I examined the right of the flat owners acting collectively to compel the landlord to sell them the freehold in the property. In this article, I look at the right of individual flat owners to compel the landlord to extend their lease.
What the lease of your flat doesn’t tell you
Leases are complicated enough to send most people to sleep before they have reached the second page and it takes a special talent (or really bad insomnia) to read all the way through to the end. Nonetheless, even if you get to the last page, your lease will not have mentioned any of the following benefits that Parliament has bestowed upon you...
Parental Alienation – is this term being hijacked by abusers?
There seems to be a backlash against the term Parental Alienation - ostensibly from those who finds themselves in a position where such an accusation is levied.
Maintaining contact with grandchildren when relationships are strained
Here, in the UK grandparents have no automatic right to see their grandchildren and therefore no automatic right to pursue a child arrangement order through the courts. However, they can ask the family court for permission to consider an order be made in their favour for contact.
LEADING THE CHARGE
HMG has made a number of announcements of support for the chargepoint infrastructure. Planning law has been relaxed; permission, usually a major factor and delay in green agenda projects, is not required where certain conditions are met. Regulation looks benign, with Ofgem taking a sensible view on the issue of whether a licence for supply will be required at charging stations
KNOWING WHEN TO PRESS THE STOP BUTTON: Covert recording in the workplace
With the prevalence of devices in our everyday lives, many of us have become used to pressing the record button on our phones as a short-cut for writing anything down. As audio (and video) recordings become more frequently used, it is likely that some individuals may prefer it as a means of recording what is said at work meetings.
Delays to ‘no fault’ divorce: should you wait to start divorce proceedings?
From April 2022 ‘no fault’ divorce will become available in England and Wales. This will mean that a party to a marriage may apply for a divorce without having to show that their spouse has done anything wrong, such as adultery or desertion. However, couples will have to now wait until April 2022 to use this new route – a further delay to its implementation which was expected this Autumn.