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The excellent legal blogger Kerry Underwood has recently reminded the readers of his blog that Before the Event insurers, particularly home legal expenses insurers, seem to think that they can break the law with impunity and still do so on an almost daily basis.

Last week the government announced it is to begin sending out letters to single parents across the country informing them of changes to their child maintenance arrangements.

Given the number of times whiplash claims are mentioned in the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that these kinds of road accident compensation claims are undergoing a rapid growth at the moment.

The 1st of April this year marked the 1st anniversary of the most drastic changes to civil legal aid since its introduction back in 1949, as part of a plan to save £279million from its budget.

This week, for the first time, a prominent member of the insurance industry controversially suggested that compensation for whiplash and other minor road accidents be scrapped.

A judgment in a recent Employment Tribunal case concerning protected disclosures has implications for all employers.

Liverpool-based solicitors Canter Levin & Berg have made a positive start to the New Year by successfully completing two major assessments, Lexcel and Investors in People. These assessments confirmed that the firm maintains high standards in client care, practice management and in the training and development of our staff.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has operated a scheme since 2011 under which employers who pay their workers less than the National Minimum Wage (NMW) can be “named and shamed”, with their names published by HM Revenue and Customs. The scheme was amended in October last year to make it easier to do this. The requirement that the employer must owe its workers at least £2000 in total, and £500 on average per worker was done away with.

Many people reading the news last Friday will have no doubt noticed some rather eye-catching figures for the salaries of legal-aid funded criminal law barristers released by the Ministry of Justice.

In an interesting development for people facing Contempt of Court Proceedings Sean Carty, a Solicitor at Merseyside-based law firm Canter Levin & Berg has been successful in securing legal aid for one of his clients. This legal aid funding will allow them to defend themselves in court from accusations of fraud in relation to a personal injury compensation claim.