Legal Updates

MacDonald Oates LLP Solicitors
3rd December 2012

Mrs Larner was a public sector worker, working for NHS Leeds and she was on sick leave for an entire year. She had not taken any holiday and had not requested any holiday during the leave year. When her employment ended, Mrs Larner ...

MacDonald Oates LLP Solicitors
2nd December 2012

Dismissal can be a fair for the reason of redundancy even when the selection pool consists of just one person. Mr Halpin was employed by Sandpiper Books initially completing administrative work in England and later as Sandpiper Book’s ...

MacDonald Oates LLP Solicitors
1st December 2012

On 24th October 2012 judgment was given in the above case in the Supreme Court. The Council were appealing a decision from the Court of Appeal which had found that 171 female claimants were successful in a claim for equal pay. The ...

MacDonald Oates LLP Solicitors
7th September 2012

You may have read in the press recently that the will and estate of Bernard Matthews, the millionaire turkey tycoon, is being disputed in the High Court. In short, the background to the matter is that Mr Matthews wished to leave his ...