As we await the Supreme Court's judgment in Seldon, Suzanne McKie and Laura Bell consider how employers can currently justify a compulsory retirement age, and what further guidance is needed
Now that there is guidance on how the Good Harvest decision should be applied, the position for parties entering into leases is clear, says Siobhan Jones
I haven't been the new girl for quite some time now – to be precise it's more than five and a half years since I started at my last firm. My move this week is therefore simultaneously exciting and a little unnerving. Practically speaking, there are a pile of new names to learn and I need to find my bearings so that I may easily access important amenities such as the toilets and the flash coffee machine. Most of that should be slotting into place by the end of day one, but it will of course take rather longer to assess the various personalities and learn how they all interact with each other.
John Thornhill, chairman of the Magistrates Association, has denied claims by the Prison Governors Association (PGA) that lay magistrates were caught up in a “feeding frenzy†of disproportionate sentencing in the wake of the riots.
