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Find out about the different types of HMRC penalties and how you can help your clients avoid them.
Find out about the penalties for enabling a defeated tax avoidance scheme, the time limits, and how to appeal a penalty notice.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Dismissal is when your employer ends your employment - reasons you can be dismissed, unfair and constructive dismissal and what to do if you're dismissed
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
Topical steroid products are safe and highly effective treatments for the management of a wide range of inflammatory skin diseases but have important risks, especially with prolonged use at high potency. In the coming months, as a result of regulatory...
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Mrs Justice Eady on 24 May 2024.
A patient alert card is being introduced for men taking finasteride to help raise awareness of the risk of psychiatric side effects and sexual dysfunction, including the potential for sexual dysfunction to persist after treatment has stopped. Healthcare professionals are...
Despicable people who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ will face prosecution under a new law announced by the government today (16 April 2024).
Disciplinary rules and procedures to deal with poor performance and conduct.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
You could get penalty points (endorsements) on your driving record if you're convicted of a motoring offence
Listing of countries with a known occurrence of high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
Cowards who kill their partners with sexual violence will face longer behind bars as the government continues to clamp down on domestic abuse against women.
How the Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS) system works and how vehicle operators should use it.
Cais am daliad niwed personol yn dilyn cyfnod o gamdriniaeth.
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing
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