Employment E-Bulletin Article

A recent case from Scotland has highlighted just how important it is for employers to take complaints of bullying and harassment both for employees' safety and to avoid liability. 

Employment E-Bulletin Article

It is a well established principle that there will be no indirect discrimination if the employer's actions are objectively justified. To establish justification, an employer will need to show that there is a legitimate aim and that the provision, criterion or practice (PCP) that has been applied, is proportionate to that aim. 

Agriculture E-Bulletin Article

Many agricultural businesses are formed through partnerships. With the partners being made up of various family members. The usual scenario is for parents to hand over the reigns to their offspring as they start to play a greater role in the day-to-day operations of the farm. At some point in time the elders in many instances become silent partners.

Agriculture E-Bulletin Article

In our experience many farmers are moving or are considering a move away from the traditional sole trader or partnership business structure to one which confers limited liability.

Agriculture E-Bulletin Article

We commonly hear that the most stressful events in life are moving house, death and divorce. Insurance products are available and common place for the first two. We take them out and faithfully pay our premiums each year in the hope that we never have to look at them, or claim against them, again – once made, forever forgotten (we hope). So what can be done to provide protection for the third?

Agriculture E-Bulletin Article

What are Manorial Rights?

Manorial rights are a remnant of the feudal system of land ownership. The Lord of the Manor owned the land and his tenants derived their title from him. From the 19th century onwards this form of ownership, referred to as copyhold, was replaced by freehold ownership and was finally abolished on 1 January 1926. However, Lords of the Manor often retained certain overriding rights (such as the right to hunt, shoot or fish, or extract minerals) and this is what has led in many cases to the separation in ownership between the land and the manorial rights over that land.