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23/02/2011 -
Personal Injury Clinic Viberts Jersey Lawyers is expanding its successful free legal review service by offering a series of four, all-day clinics focused on employment and personal injury matters at its offices on Union Street, St. Helier.
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15/11/2010 -
Where did the love go? Many of us have read in the popular press about extremely wealthy couples who divorce and the court is asked to divide their assets between them. This has led many in the world of family law to call London the ’divorce capital of the world’. It is often felt that the English family courts favour wives over their often fabulously wealthy husbands.
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19/08/2010 -
Are you being bullied at work? There is an implied duty of mutual trust and confidence in every contract of employment. This duty covers a non-exhaustive range of sub-duties, such as the duty not to take part in, endorse or allow physical and verbal abuse and the duty not to require an employee to carry out increased duties without providing them with sufficient support.
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01/04/2010 -
Pre-Nuptial Agreements - Recent Developments The English Court of Appeal several months ago gave a landmark decision in the case of Radmacher v Granatino. This case is now the leading authority (which can also be argued in the Jersey Courts) where there is a pre-nuptial agreement and the couple subsequently split.
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01/02/2010 -
Divorce and Money – Is there another way to settle matters? Every year in Jersey many wives and husbands get divorced. In turn the Family court in the Island simply becomes busier and busier. Delays in dealing with cases become inevitable. Using the court process is expensive, stressful and time consuming. By asking the judge to make a decision about the finances of the family means that neither party to the divorce has any effective say in how the money and property are split. Inevitably one or at times both the wife and the husband will be left with a decision that they are unhappy with and having gone through the court process the relationship between them may well have broken down completely.
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29/01/2010 -
NEW YEAR, NO JOB? The loss of one’s job can be a stressful event. Even where this is through no fault of your own there may be feelings of bewilderment and loss of self-esteem. The three most common reasons for job losses are redundancy, misconduct and the incapability of the employee.
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12/01/2010 -
Taxation (Land Transaction) (Jersey) Law When a purchaser buys freehold land a tax is paid which is called Stamp Duty. Historically, the transfer of a share transfer flat was tax free. This loophole is now closed and from 1st January a tax (Land Transaction Tax or "LTT") will now be charged on the transfer of all share transfers flats.
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24/02/2009 -
Redundancy Redundancy is a shadow which now hangs over all employees, from the top of the organisation to the bottom. The word figures prominently in the media and in general conversation, yet in the many years of full employment, which could come so abruptly to an end, it was hardly heard, so its meaning and consequences may not be widely understood.
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08/01/2009 -
Where there’s a will, there’s a way January is an important time of year. Many people take stock of their lives, roll up their sleeves and confront nagging problems. Resolutions are made both big and small: maybe to lose weight and go to the gym, or to make bigger decisions about the future of a personal relationship. Family lawyers are at their busiest at this time of the year.
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08/10/2008 -
Law exam success at Viberts Giles Baxter, a legal assistant in the commercial law department at Viberts, has successfully completed his studies with the College of Law adding a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree to his existing BSc in Maritime Law.
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06/09/2007 -
Why a local law firm? When I first came to work in Jersey 10 years ago, I was struck by the number of law firms that were willing to provide legal services for the local marketplace. All this has now changed.
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16/11/2006 -
Fair Dismissal: A painstaking procedure Employers in Jersey now know that they can no longer dismiss an employee without good reason, and that if a dismissal is unfair, as defined by the law, the employee has remedies which are available through the Jersey Employment Tribunal.
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