Downloadable PDF factsheets

Business

• Legal documents for running SMEs
• Setting up your business - part I
• Setting up your business - part II
• Selling your business

Employment

• Age discrimination
• Agency workers - all change as valuable employment law rights are gained from 1st October 2011
• As another volcanic ash cloud blows in from Iceland - what are your rights to be paid if you are adversely affected?
• As the Royal Wedding looms - what are your rights to time off work?
• Bad weather and can't get to work - what are your rights if you are disciplined?
• Bullying at work - what are your rights?
• City redundancy packages
• Claiming your bonus when your employment has been terminated prior to the bonus payment date
• Compromise agreements are on the increase - it's a far better way of resolving disputes
• Data protection - your rights and remedies on information your employers hold on you
• Discrimination at interview stage
• Discrimination - a new rush for claims under The Equality Act 2010?
• Employers beware - a failure to follow the correct dismissal procedure gives rise to valuable employee rights, as highlighted by the recent success of Sharon Shoesmith in the Baby P case.
• Employers beware - age discrimination
• Flexible and part-time work - what are your rights?
• Job references and reputation
• New dismissal and grievance procedures from 6th April 2009
• Performance appraisals - what are your rights of challenge?
• Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
• Redundancy - is it genuine and how you can challenge this?
• Rest Breaks - is there a change in working culture and what are your legal rights?
• Retirement at 65? Think again - you now have choices
• Rights to redundancy payouts
• Sick notes become fit notes, but what rights do they bring?
• Sick pay - what is your entitlement?
• Snow joke - your rights if the snow stops you getting to work
• Social networking sites - can bad mouthing your employer put your job in jeopardy?
• Starting a new job - what are your employment rights and why you should keep your head down
• Stealing from your employer? Think again
• Stress at work update - what are your rights?
• Time off work - what are your rights?
• Training - the new rights to time off
• Unfair dismissal rights may be eroded by the coalition government
• World Cup warning - thinking of throwing a “sickie” or turning up to work with a hangover?

Immigration

Business, investors and work in the UK

• Tier 1 - Highly skilled migrants (available soon)
• Tier 1 - Entrepreneurs
• Tier 1 - Investors
• Tier 1 - Post-study workers
• Tier 2 - General work permit - skilled workers
• Tier 2 - Work permit intra-company transfers
• Tier 5 - Temporary workers
• Tier 5 - Youth mobility
• Sole representative of an overseas company

Sponsorship licence

• Employers (available soon)
• Education providers (available soon)

Students

• Tier 4 - Adult student (available soon)
• Tier 4 - Child student (available soon)

Family

• Fiancé(e)
• Spouse
• Unmarried partners
• Dependent relatives
• UK ancestry

Other immigration factsheets

• Visitors
• European nationals and their dependants (available soon)
• Indefinite Leave to Remain
• British citizenship
• Immigration news and updates
• Same-day visa service

Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)

• LPA - What is it?

Licensing

• The 2003 Licensing law

Property

• Absentee landlords - how leaseholders can take control
• Buying and selling your flat with an absentee landlord
• Buying off plan
• Buying property at auction
• How to negotiate a new commercial lease
• Lease extensions
• Special factsheet for buyers living abroad
• Your legal right to buy the freehold of a block of flats

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