Contract for service means contract for a job by self employed person. While he or she may hire others to carry out (or help) in the work, he or she is solely responsible for the satisfactory completion of the job.
Contract for service governs and regulates the relationship between contractor and client. There is no statutory [...]

Stock transfer form is used to make a private transfer of shares between two parties. In order to validly transfer its shares in the company, the shareholder needed to execute a stock transfer form
The stock transfer form is one of the essential documents used following incorporation of a company. The Stock Transfer Form allows you [...]

Section 8 notice of the Housing Act 1988 is used to terminate the assured shorthold tenancy when the tenant violates the terms laid down in the tenancy agreement. There are 17 grounds on the basis of which landlord may seek possession before the fixed term of tenancy has come to an end.
Before applying for the [...]

A new fast-track procedure for approving international patent applications that will cut waiting times by more than a year has been launched.
Innovation is one of the main driving forces for Britain’s economic recovery. Delays in dealing with patent applications prevent firms from expanding and creating new jobs
The new fast-track procedure will make it quicker for [...]

Statutory Instrument – 22/01/2010
The main effect of these draft regulations is to implement the government’s previously announced intention to give new mothers the right to transfer the second 6 months of their 12 months maternity leave entitlement to the father.
Statutory Maternity Pay (£123.06 per week, rising to £124.88 in April 2010, payable for 9 months in [...]

EAT – 18/01/2010
The right to statutory leave is not “inalienable”. Although an employer must not act unreasonably or capriciously so as to deny any lawful requests for leave, it is possible that contractual provisions (such as notice periods for applying for leave) may operate to prevent an employee taking all his leave before a leave [...]

Sunday Telegraph – 10/01/2010
The Sunday Telegraph reports that John Bowers QC, the eminent employment law silk, has said in a formal opinion that the Equality Bill “could make it unlawful for a church to require a priest or minister to be male, celibate and unmarried, or not in a civil partnership”.
The Sunday Telegraph article goes [...]

Copyright acknowledged Daily Mail – 11/01/2010
Although this Daily Mail article does not mention it, the Heyday case is an essential backdrop to this interview with Harriet Harman. Ms Harman has told the Daily Mail that the government intends to recommend that the age 65 default retirement age should not be raised to 70 or 75 [...]

Financial Times – 28/12/2009
A highly paid London-based German banker, Achim Beck, has successfully brought a claim for age discrimination against his former employer, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, after he was made redundant.
An employment tribunal ruled that Mr Beck had been the victim of a “sham” redundancy process with the aim of replacing him [...]

Joint Committee on Human Rights – 15/12/2009
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has been examining the Process for appointments to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.  As part of that process it has been asking why the Commission is paying Neil Kingham, its interim chief executive, £1,000 per day.
This follows previous evidence sessions with [...]