Legal News

Motoring authorities may have to carry out medical tests on the elderly before removing their driving licences in future. The development has arisen after a 78-year-old woman who caused a three-car pile-up won a High Court battle for the right to drive again. Georgina Frances Hitchen had her licence...

The Court of Appeal heard an appeal in a package holiday claim where the claimant consumer had slipped on some water on granite stairs at a hotel in Spain causing personal injury. At first instance it was found that the hotel had not exercised reasonable care and the defendant organiser was thereby ...

Absence management figures published in a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), found that stress and mental health issues remain the overarching reason for days off work and that one third of employers are not taking action to adress this issue. However, one third...

The Supreme Court has extended protection for victims of asbestos-related diseases, by ruling that the Asbestos Industry Regulations 1931 applied to all workers in factories where asbestos was being processed. Lord Kerr said any worker in a factory where asbestos processing took place within the sco...

Theresa May has warned that Britain’s cities will become a “safe havens for European criminals” without the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). The Home Office said more than 2,500 serious international criminals like murderers, paedophiles, human traffickers and terrorists had been extradited ...

Police will be given extra powers to fine people for the most minor offences, under Government plans to scrap the system of police cautions in England and Wales. Under plans announced by the Justice Secretary, people carrying out minor acts of vandalism could be fined up to about £150, ordered to r...