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    Cleaner Unfairly Dismissed Following 'Engineered' Disciplinary Process

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    Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

    Employers may be put under pressure by an unhappy client to take action against a particular employee. However, as an Employment Tribunal (ET) ruling showed, that is all the more reason why a scrupulously fair procedure must be followed (Murphy v...

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    Absentee Tenant Pays High Price for Failing to Leave Forwarding Address

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    Absentee or non-resident tenants who do not leave their landlords with a forwarding address place themselves in acute legal danger. In one case, a tenant who failed to take that sensible step suffered forfeiture of her 140-year lease due to her non-...

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    Judge Overturns Divorce Decree Based on Wife's Forged Signature

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    Written by Emma Gray

    Court orders are sometimes obtained by improper means, but when the truth emerges – as it almost always does – those responsible are bound to pay a crushing price. That was certainly so in the case of a businessman who obtained a divorce on the...

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