Bid, challenge, build, reclaim – know your community rights
This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Personal Injury on 24 February 2015. Community Rights programme has too many obstacles for local people, says CLGC report, LNB News 03/02/2015 127 […]
Opinion Piece: A Possible New Deal for Housing Associations?
The likely long term consequences of the ONS decision to classify housing associations as part of the “public sector” are, as we have said in our recent e-briefing, not going […]
Lifetime allowance reduction: protections
HMRC have now published details of how savers can apply for protections so that they will be able to continue to benefit from a lifetime allowance of £1.25million so long […]
What’s in a name? Protecting your Intellectual Property
Many charities choose to operate as charitable companies limited by guarantee, or they may have a separate trading company. Under the amended company name regulations, it is now easier to […]
HMRC – changing their approach to sleep-ins?
Prior to the summer of 2016, we have been involved in a number of inspections where HMRC had concluded that it was only the time spent awake and working during […]
Contracting with local authorities
Local government functions — local authorities may only act where they have a power (they can act) or a duty (they must act) set out in legislation. Different forms of local […]
Every vote counts
Can anyone and everyone vote? What about people with learning disabilities, or a brain injury, or a diagnosis of dementia? Does their reduced mental capacity affect their right to vote? […]
To pay or not to pay? – More scrutiny over holiday pay
Background Over recent years, we have seen numerous, well-publicised decisions, around whether holiday pay should include additional elements of pay (such as overtime and commission) when that pay is for […]
Subletting, Fraud and “Parting with Possession”
The Fraud Act added section 15A into the Housing Act 1988, which states that if an assured tenant “sub-lets” or “parts with possession of the dwelling-house”, the “tenancy ceases to […]
New PAS 91 – at last!
You may have missed this, as we nearly did, but just before Christmas the British Standards Institution issued an updated version of PAS 91.
Environment Agency announce “risk-based regime” to the separate collection of recyclables
This is the first substantial guidance that has been produced in respect of this fundamental shift in how the United Kingdom is to process recyclables in accordance with EU Law […]
Members rights to information Q&A
All full members are members under Company Law. We have twelve branches. Each branch elects one of their members to be on the board of the national charity. One branch […]