Business as usual during lockdown - Raymond Johnston
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Raymond Johnston, Regulatory Law and Pensions Solicitor What’s your normal role in Edwards & Co.? My normal work consists of assisting current police officers with ill health retirement and injury on duty issues. Often this extends to dealing with reduction in pay issues and attendance m...
Let’s eat Grandpa! How the lack of a comma won an employment case for American workers
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Let’s eat Grandpa! How the lack of a comma won an employment case for American workers. Compare the above statement to the following: “Let’s eat, Grandpa!” The effective use of a comma is all that is required for these statements to take on very different meanings....
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The trial of the five-time world player of the year footballer Lionel Messi and his father Jorge on tax fraud charges has begun in Spain. Messi and his father, who manages his financial affairs, are accused of defrauding the Spanish government of more than €4m between 2007 and 2009. Spanish...
Early Guilty Plea: Incentive V Reward
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New sentencing guidelines intended to encourage guilty pleas are to be consulted on in England and Wales. As things currently stand defendants can have their sentence reduced by up to a third if they plead guilty at “the first reasonable opportunity”. This is applicable in England and Wa...