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Local business owners and HR managers will be able to experience an employment tribunal at first hand, thanks to a unique collaboration between leading Devon law firm Stones Solicitors LLP and the University of Exeter. Employment law experts at Stones have teamed up with PhD students from the Drama Department at the University of Exeter [...]
Businesses across Devon are being urged by Age UK Devon to support its Big Hearty Meal campaign, designed to raise awareness of how hard the winter months can be for older people and to raise funds to help make it easier. Taking place between 12th and 19th February, businesses are encouraged to get members of [...]
The New Year is traditionally the time when thoughts turn to booking a holiday overseas. But with many parts of the world in chaos, what do travellers need to think about and do before they embark on their holidays? The world is now a much more open place for those of us who wish to [...]
Members of staff from leading Devon law firm Stones Solicitors LLP have taken part in the Exeter 10,000 project, run by the Peninsula Clinical Research Facility (CRF) part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD) . The project aims to compile a research register of 10,000 individuals from the Exeter and East Devon [...]
At this time of year many people are planning to take some time out. It may be students taking a break before or after university or increasingly those taking a career break or a grey gap year in retirement. Gap years should be pivotal life experiences providing nothing but happy memories, but things can go [...]
This week, in his first report, the Legal Ombudsman has highlighted the fact that thousands of people have been “ripped off” by unregulated will writers. Here, we, describe why it’s best to use a regulated expert if you want to be sure that the terms of your will are fulfilled as you wish. Last year [...]
Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, said in the House of Commons that “the disabled or those with mental health problems” were at a disadvantage because they could not offer to work for less money than the National Minimum Wage. His concern was that they were unable to compete for jobs “in the real [...]
The Bribery Act will come into force on 1st July this year, and employers should be taking steps to ensure that they are ready to comply with the legislation. Bribery is often thought to be the domain of crooked big businesses dealing overseas, but the new legislation is clear – it will be a criminal [...]
A recent survey showed that average care home fees are now £25,000 a year, and as we get older the risk of needing residential care increases: a recent study showed that there are over 9.5 million people in the UK aged 65-74, and over one million people aged 85 or more, 20.7 per cent of [...]
Begbies Traynor’s Ian Walker commented before the Budget: Petrol rises could be the last straw for under-pressure SMEs, threatening to send some under, a corporate recovery expert has warned. Ian Walker, partner in the Exeter office of national business rescue and recovery experts Begbies Traynor, cautioned that the surge could tip the world back into [...]
