It’s never easy to tender your resignation from a job. Whether you have decided to leave your present job to transition into a newer and better one, want to take some time out to study or travel, or for any other reason, leaving the familiarity of your present role would be difficult. However, once you’ve …
If you’re working for someone (which means you are an “employee”), you’ll always have an employment contract with your employer. A contract refers to an agreement where an employee’s rights, responsibilities, and duties along with the employment conditions are mentioned. All these are collectively known as the ‘terms’ of the contract. Even when you don’t …
If you have got a zero hour contract with your employer, the latter doesn’t need to state how many hours’ work he/she will give you. Additionally, he/she can’t stop you from working for another employer. Thus, you can say these are employment contracts with no guaranteed hours. In the U.K., zero hour contracts cover almost …
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Are you a landlord seeking possession of your property from the tenant? Getting confused about which notice should you serve to evict him or her? If yes, you must understand the individual merit of a Section 8 notice and a Section 21 notice to avoid unnecessary expenses and delays. We’ve created this post to help …
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Legaldocuments and the jargon they use are often quite confusing. When you hear the terms ‘living will’ and ‘will’, you may be tempted to consider both to be the same. Since both have “will” in their names, it would be reasonable for you to think that they’re similar. But in reality, they aren’t. Rather, they …
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For the majority of landlords in Wales, serving the Section 21 notice is the preferred way to start the process of regaining possession of their property once the fixed term of the AST (Assured Shorthold Tenancy) comes to an end. Generally, this method of taking back possession is easier compared to a Section 8 notice …
If you appoint another person(s) to act on your behalf under a power of attorney (PoA), you’re called the ‘donor’ in England and Wales or ‘granter’ in Scotland. The other person(s) is called the ‘attorney(s)’. Their authority to act on your behalf continues until you revoke the PoA. You can use a deed of revocation …
While tenancies should end by mutual consent, it doesn’t happen always. Sometimes landlords have to struggle heavily to regain possession of their property and need to seek a court order to evict their tenants. If you are planning to start the eviction process, it is extremely crucial to obtain a clear idea about different types …
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Do you have a website or app that collects, uses, or processes personal data of EU (European Union) citizens? If yes, you’ll need a privacy policy to be made accessible to your customers and the public.
Thinking and planning about the distant future when you could lose your mental capacity or be in a vegetative state could be extremely disturbing. But doing nothing and simply hoping for the best could put you and your loved ones in a far worse situation. That’s why you need to plan for the future while …
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