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ASHE 2018 data published
The 2018 release of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), conducted in April 2018, was published on 26th October 2018.
Fudge and caramel; are they really that different?
James considers whether risk and volatility are the same or different, with the help of the Beastie Boys
Court of Protection approves gift of £6,000,000 to be made by an attorney, to himself, from his mother’s assets.
In a recent judgment (PBC v JMA & Ors [2018] EWCOP 19), Her Honour Judge Hilder, Senior Judge at the Court of Protection, approved an application made by the attorney of a 72 year old lady, to make a gift of £6m to himself, from his mother’s c.£19m estate, in order to mitigate the impact of IHT upon his mother’s eventual death.
Owning up: DWP finally admits official error for their failure to properly assess migrating ESA claims
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made another climb down last month when it accepted the merits of the Judicial Review instigated by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) regarding thousands of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants’ historic entitlement to an income-related ESA award.
A decade has passed… already!
Ian Rowe considers where the last ten years have gone!
A right pickle
Ian Gunn considers the ramifications for PI claimants with a claim against a local authority.
You take the high road …. or a tale of two Bills.
Discount rate issues surface again.
What are the odds?
As the 2018 World Cup in Russia enters its fifth day and England are about to commence their campaign, James Rooney takes a light-hearted look at how quantitative analysis has been used by investment bank, UBS, to determine the potential winner of the tournament.
Thirty years on
It was my 30th birthday on 6th July 1988. However, that is a memorable date for a far more important reason. On that day, a massive explosion at the Piper Alpha oil platform, approximately 120 miles north-east of Aberdeen, killed 167 people. The total insured loss was reported as about £1.7 billion. It is the worst offshore oil disaster in terms of lives lost and industry impact.