Mears Ltd – a Gloucester-based building maintenance and refurbishment company – has been fined after causing safety issues with a gas heater in an elderly social housing tenant’s property.
Read moreLandlords lose High Court attempt to block council’s licensing scheme
A group of letting agents and landlords – the Croydon Property Forum – will have to pay for licences to let out their respective properties, following a High Court Judge’s decision to dismiss their attempts to block the scheme.
Read moreGoogle’s Alphabet could potentially infringe trademark rights owned by BMW
Google recently announced that it has registered a new holding company – Alphabet – to contain its increasingly broad range of businesses.
Read moreWorker’s death at a Devon paper mill results in employer fine
DS Smith Paper Ltd – a paper firm based in London – has been fined £400,000 after one of its employees sustained fatal injuries at its paper mill in Devon, after getting trapped in machinery that had no safety guards…
Read moreTolkien estate and Warner Bros. take legal action against ‘Hobbit house’ on campsite
A couple in Suffolk have been targeted by legal action from the Warner Bros. film studio and the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien after attempting to build a Hobbit-style house at the campsite they operate.
Read moreLeading charities claim that Wales ‘leads the UK’ on solving homelessness
A new report – The Homelessness Monitor: Wales 2015 – has stated that Wales’s approach to tackling homelessness is an example that should be followed by the rest of the UK.
Read moreLandlords and letting agents to face tougher penalties in rental market reform
Any landlord or letting agent found to be breaking the law could soon be facing tougher penalties from magistrates, following a Government consultation on how to better regulate the industry.
Read moreStudents’ lives at risk as landlords and agents fail to fix ‘dangerous’ accommodation
Electrical Safety First (ESF) – a charity that aims to educate the nation on electrical safety –has launched a campaign to show landlords and letting agents the impact of failing to fix safety problems with student accommodation.
Read moreClaims management company is the first to be fined under cold-calling legislation
The Hearing Clinic, a company that handles cases for people that have suffered a hearing impairment as a result of workplace noise, is the first business to be fined following the Government’s crackdown on cold-calling.
Read moreBBC’s ‘Bake Off’ trailer scrapped after copyright tension
A trailer to promote the latest instalment of a popular BBC programme – The Great British Bake Off – has reportedly stopped airing because of a copyright dispute.
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