UK Legal

Traffic School: Where Smart People Go to Learn About Saving Money

Charli Radke | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Charli Radke

If you're eligible for traffic school, you could wind up saving yourself more money than you might think. Of course, you will have to pay the fine for breaking the law, but one of the benefits of taking an online traffic school course is that you will keep your insurance company from ever finding out about your little run-in with the law.

Law School: The Default Career Choice

Brian John Spencer | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Brian John Spencer

Seven years ago I entered law school and five years later I left law school jobless. I also left law school without a day of practical experience; without an ounce of interview experience or even the faintest idea of what it was actually like to practice law.

New Legal Challenge to End the Detention of Asylum-Seekers

Jerome Phelps | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Politics
Jerome Phelps

We are in a high security wing of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, just outside Heathrow Airport, to run an advice workshop. Often, we find people with urgent needs for advice and advocacy. But today, almost everyone I see is an asylum-seeker on the Detained Fast Track, which means that there is little that we can do to help.

Proposed Changes to Claims Process are Not Fair

Cheryl Abrahams | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Cheryl Abrahams

Plans to overhaul the way that personal injury claims are funded are threatening to leave some claimants seriously out of pocket and others may be unable to find the legal representation they would need to do anything about it.

The FSA's pilot scheme on interest rate hedging products - a more sophisticated approach?

Andrew Brown | Posted 20.04.2013 | UK
Andrew Brown

First, a little background into the interest rate swap mis selling situation is perhaps required. Interest rate swaps were initially marketed to prote...

Bankrupting the NHS?

Richard Lodge | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK
Richard Lodge

Repealing the 1948 Act will not reduce the amount the NHS is required to pay to meet claimants' future care needs. In the majority of cases involving catastrophic injuries - such as birth injury, acquired brain injury and spinal injury claims - the claimant requires social rather than nursing/medical care.

Cameron Defends Plans For Secret Court Proceedings

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron has defended plans for secret court proceedings, saying they would prevent taxpayer-funded payouts to "unsavoury" characters and enhance...

'From The Pages Of A Kafka Novel'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 19.11.2012 | UK

Human rights groups have furiously condemned "kafkaesque" plans by cabinet minister Ken Clarke over secret court legislation, as the government prepar...

LISTEN: Lord McAlpine Says His Reputation 'Will Never Recover'

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 15.11.2012 | UK Politics

Lord McAlpine has said he does not expect his reputation to ever recover after he was falsely accused of sexually abusing young boys. The former To...

Lord McAlpine Reveals Anger And Hurt After Botched Newsnight Investigation

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.11.2012 | UK

The former Conservative politician who was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse as a result of a Newsnight investigation is in the process of agreeing ...

Director of Public Prosecutions Tells Twitter and Facebook to Police their Websites

Simon Hilliard | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK Tech
Simon Hilliard

Keir Starmer is not a name commonly thrown around in the social media world, but he's quite a big deal. As the Director of Public Prosecutions, he oversees pretty much all public prosecutions in the UK - and now he's decided to get involved in the murky legal waters of Twitter and Facebook.

Don't Be Afraid to Take On the Law

Stephen Hill | Posted 03.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Stephen Hill

Taking on a solicitor is like seeing Goliath through the eyes of David for many. There has been a tendency in the past to believe that a lack of legal knowledge will render impotent any complaint against a solicitor, but recently released figures suggest that the public's attitude to this difficult area has grown in confidence.

The Mythology of Employment Law

Martin Edwards | Posted 22.09.2012 | UK
Martin Edwards

For a branch of law intended, at the time of its creation less than half a century ago, to be simple, accessible and non-legalistic, employment law has become shrouded by an extraordinary number of myths and misconceptions.

Field of Gold: Farmers, the Divorce Courts and a Very Different Cash Crop

Claire Reid | Posted 20.09.2012 | UK
Claire Reid

Residential property prices in the UK currently resemble something of a curate's egg slightly past its sell-by date.

Should Anorexics be force fed?

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK
Dr Raj Persaud

A dramatic rise in the use of compulsory admissions over the last two decades does not mean that psychiatric disorders have in their nature got worse, but that the prospects for those who have them seem more bleak. This is because a progressively starved, more disorganised NHS is less effectively caring.

Facebook's Legal Challenges Following its IPO

Jonathan Lea | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK Tech
Jonathan Lea

Facebook owns an incredible amount of information about, and created by, its users and as a result data security is key to maintain confidence in the site. A significant data breach would mean a PR backlash, regulatory investigations and civil liability to its users for negligence and other causes of action.

Fulfilment at Work - More Important Than Sex and Bin Bags?

Simon Harper | Posted 28.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Simon Harper

As someone who has spent four years exploring other people's fulfilment-at-work as part of a business model, it can all seem rather shifting and nebulous. However, I'm increasingly convinced that the foundation for fulfilment is actually quite simple - a sense of autonomy.

Employment Law - Is it Time to Think the Unthinkable?

Martin Edwards | Posted 22.07.2012 | UK Politics
Martin Edwards

Is it time to think the unthinkable about the way we employ people in Britain? The question is prompted by the leaking of Adrian Beecroft's controversial report to the government, which recommends sweeping changes to aspects of UK employment law.

Blogger Olly Cromwell Given 80 Hours Of Unpaid Work For Calling Councillor A C*** On Twitter

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.05.2012 | UK

London-based blogger "Olly Cromwell" who called his councillor a "c***" on Twitter and invited people to put excrement through his letter box avoided ...

Should We Tackle Bad Capitalism, With Good Capitalism?

Martin Edwards | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Politics
Martin Edwards

"It was bad capitalism that got us into this mess - good capitalism that will get us out" was the theme of a fascinating lecture that Will Hutton gave at Liverpool University last week.

Blogger Who Called Councillor A C**t On Twitter: 'I Didn't Do Anything Wrong'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 16.04.2012 | UK

London-based blogger 'Olly Cromwell' faces a jail term for calling his local Bexley councillor a 'c***' on Twitter, after being found guilty of improp...

Businesses Should Plan for Success with Succession Planning

Martin Edwards | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK
Martin Edwards

Who will succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader, Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United manager or - to take a name almost at random - Professor Les Ebdon as the Director of the Office of Fair Access to Universities?

Managing the Manager

Martin Edwards | Posted 05.05.2012 | UK
Martin Edwards

So it's goodbye to AVB. The latest Chelsea FC manager to be pushed through the exit door, Andreas Villas Boas, had only been in post since June.

Murdoch Could Face Legal Battle In US As Dowler Lawyer Steps Up Action

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.02.2012 | UK

The solicitor representing the family of Milly Dowler as well as other alleged victims of phone hacking is taking his battle against Rupert Murdoch to...

Assange Asks Supreme Court To Block 'Invalid' Extradition

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked the Supreme Court to block his extradition to Sweden on the grounds that the European arrest warrant issued...