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Advising on Post-Termination Restrictive Covenants | Case Study
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Case Study: Helping a 65 year old employee raise a post-dismissal grievance due to age discrimination
FAQs: Age Discrimination for Employees
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Case Study: Failure To Promote An Employee On Maternity Leave
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Case Study: £30,000 Compensation For Pregnancy Discrimination & Unfair Dismissal
Factsheet: Pregnancy & Maternity Discrimination
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Replaced While On Maternity Leave | Case Study
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Factsheet: Equal Pay
Negotiating a Settlement in a Sex Discrimination & Victimisation Claim | Case Study
Employee Sexual Discrimination Advice
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Case Study: Acting for a Director with a Disability Discrimination and Constructive Dismissal Claim
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Case Study: Disability Discrimination Claim Succeeds Using a Damages Based Agreement
Case Study: Disabled Client Wins Unfair Dismissal and Disability Discrimination Claim, Funded by our No Win-No Fee Scheme
Case Study: Duty To Make Reasonable Adjustments For Disabled Staff
Case Study: Dyslexia In The Workplace
Case Study: Helping a Disabled Employee get a Settlement for a Disability Discrimination Claim
Case Study: Helping a public sector employee appeal his dismissal for ill health to secure reinstatement
Case Study: How we helped an employee bring a claim for disability discrimination due to her dyspraxia and the failure to make reasonable adjustments to her induction
Case Study: Increasing compensation in a Settlement Agreement offer where employee shielding relative experienced disability discrimination
Case Study: Negotiating a Settlement for an Employee who was Unfairly Dismissed as a result of his Disability
Case Study: Unfair Dismissal Following an Employer’s Failure to Make Reasonable Adjustments to Job Role
Detailed FAQ’s For Employees
Discrimination Arising From Disability
Factsheet: Am I Considered Disabled Under The Equality Act?
Factsheet: What Are Reasonable Adjustments For Disabled Employees?
FAQs: Disability
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Religious Discrimination Advice for Employees
Sexuality Discrimination, Employee Advice
Case Study: Saving a Nurse’s Career
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FAQs: Guide To Post-termination Restrictive Covenants For Employees
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FAQs: The Extended Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
Grievance Procedures & The Acas Code
Factsheet: How To Raise A Written Grievance
FAQs: Grievances
Legal Expenses Insurance
Redundancy Advice
Case Study: Unfair selection for redundancy due to employee raising whistleblowing concerns
Factsheet: Legal Advice For Employees Dealing With Redundancy
Settlement Agreement Solicitors in Brighton and Hove
Case Study: Compensation Increased By £8,000 In Settlement Agreement
Case Study: New Job & Compensation Boost In Settlement Agreement
Case Study: Settlement Agreement Secures Reference & £20,000
Case Study: Settlement Agreement Secures £10,000 & Reference
Case Study: Settlement Agreement Secures £8,000 & Reference
Case Study: Substantial Settlement For An Auditor Who Invoiced Via A Limited Company
Case Study: £15,000 Payment & Favourable Reference In Settlement Agreement
Case Study: £6,000 Compensation Lift in Settlement Agreement
Case Study: £8,000 Settlement Agreement Increase
Factsheet: Settlement Agreement Tax Implications
FAQs: Settlement Agreements For Employees
What is a Settlement Agreement? Factsheet & Advice For Employees
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace & Employee Claims Advice
Case Study: Defending a Claim of Sexual Harassment
Case Study: Harassment, Sex Discrimination, and Victimisation in the Workplace
FAQs: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace for Employees
Sexual Harassment: Factsheet & Guidance For Employees
Unfair Dismissal Claims
Case Study: De Facto Director Recovers £33,000 Following Unfair Dismissal
Case Study: Helping a Director-level employee make an Employment Tribunal claim for whistleblowing
Case Study: Unfair and Wrongful Dismissal Claim – Including Cost Estimates & Fees
Case Study: Unfair Dismissal From Hair Salon Leads To £12,000 Settlement
Case Study: Whistleblower Claims Unfair Dismissal & Wins Compensation
Factsheet: What Is An Unfair Dismissal?
How to Appeal Your Dismissal
Winning a Client’s Whistleblowing Detriment and Unfair Dismissal Case | Case Study
£100,000 Awarded and Successful Reinstatement After Constructive Dismissal | Case Study
Why Employees Choose Us
Working Rights
10 Top Tips For Consultants To Avoid Becoming Employees
10 Top Tips On Shared Parental Leave For Employees
Case Study: Why It Pays To Pay A Solicitor?
Factsheet: Maternity Rights For Employees
Factsheet: National Minimum Wage
Factsheet: New Right To Accompany To Antenatal Appointments
Factsheet: Paternity Leave For Employees
Factsheet: Paternity Rights For Employees
Factsheet: Your Rights When Pregnant At Work
FAQs: Employees Rights & Contracts Of Employment
FAQs: Paternity Rights For Employees
FAQs: Shared Parental Leave For Employees
FAQs: Statutory Shared Parental Pay For Employees
Shared Parental Leave For Employees
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Community Care Law
Abbreviations Used In Community Care
Care Home Contracts Advice
Challenging Top-Up Fees and Unfair Terms in a Care Home Contract | Case Study
Challenging Care & Support Decisions | Care Act 2014
Case Study: Challenging a Local Authority Financial Assessment and Preventing Eviction of a Disabled Relative
Case Study: Securing a £15,000 per annum increase to a Care at Home Package for a disabled client
Case Study: Successfully challenging Social Services over inadequate Care Home funding
FAQs: Care and Support Decisions and the Coronavirus Crisis
Community Care Events
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Court Of Protection Litigation
Case Study: Application to the Court of Protection for a Health and Welfare Best Interest Decision
Case Study: Applying to the Court of Protection to appoint a Deputy for Property and Finance
Factsheet: Court of Protection
FAQs: Court of Protection – The Basics
FAQs: Court of Protection Litigation
Deprivation Of Assets
Case Study: Challenging Local Authority Accusations of Deprivation of Assets
Case Study: Overturning an incorrect Financial Assessment and securing Local Authority funding for an elderly woman
FAQs: Social Care Funding & Deprivation Of Assets
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
Factsheet: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
FAQs: Deprivation of Liberty & Health & Welfare
Deputyship Application
FAQs: The Court of Protection and Deputyship Applications
FAQs: When does a Lay Deputy for property and financial affairs need permission from the Court of Protection?
Education, Health & Social Care Services For Under 25s
Case Study: Increasing NHS Children’s Continuing Care Funding through a SEND Tribunal Appeal
Case Study: Securing Increased NHS Children’s Continuing Care Funding
Education, Health & Care Plans (16+) | SEN Lawyers
FAQs: Requesting An Education, Health & Care Plan
FAQs: What Is Education Law?
NHS Children’s Continuing Care
FAQs: NHS Children’s Continuing Care
Securing Funding for an Independent Specialist College Placement for an 18 Year Old with Physical Disabilities using Mediation | Case Study
Transitioning From Children’s To Adult Social Care
FAQs: Transitioning to Adult Care Services
Hospital Discharge: Discharge Planning From Hospital To Home
Case Study: Clients Oppose Hospital’s Failure To Ensure Their Father Was Safely Discharged
Case Study: Enabling a Safe Discharge from Hospital with a Funded Care Home Placement
Case Study: Ensuring choice and suitability in a Hospital Discharge to Assess care and support package
Factsheet: Safe Discharge From Hospital
FAQs: Discharge From Hospital
FAQs: Hospital Discharge and the Coronavirus Crisis
Unlawful Detention
Case Study: Preventing an Unlawful Detention
FAQs: Unlawful Detention
Mental Capacity Assessment & Law
Case Study: Ensuring Continued Funding For Care Following A Brain Injury
Case Study: Mental Capacity
Factsheet: What Is Mental Capacity?
NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding & Reclaiming Care Home Fees
Case Study: Family Recoups £26,000 Care Home Fees
Case Study: Family Wins Appeal Against Withdrawal Of Healthcare Funding
Case Study: NHS Continuing Healthcare Funded Care At Home Rather Than In A Residential Setting
Case Study: NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding
Case Study: Obtaining Backdated Funding to Settle a Care Home Debt Claimed from the Executor of an Estate
Case Study: Securing a substantial NHS Continuing Healthcare Direct Payment valued at £98,000 a year
Factsheet: Accessing Continuing Healthcare Funding
Factsheet: How To Challenge Decisions On NHS Continuing Healthcare
Factsheet: Personal Health Budgets
FAQs: NHS Continuing Healthcare
NHS Continuing Healthcare Appeals
Case Study: Retrospective Appeal Helps Client Reclaim Nursing Home Fees
Case Study: Securing A Much Improved NHS Continuing Healthcare Care Package From The CCG
Case Study: Successful Care Funding Challenge
Case Study: Winning a retrospective NHS CHC appeal at Local Resolution Meeting for the estate of a woman with Parkinson’s disease and challenging behaviour
Top Tips: Success in Retrospective NHS Continuing Healthcare Cases
Paying For Care At Home & Care Home Funding
Case Study: Avoiding Top-ups to Fund Care Costs
Case Study: Care Act 2014 – Eligibility Criteria
Case Study: Care Act 2014 – Need Or Preference To Stay At Home?
Case Study: Challenging A Decision That An Elderly Care Home Resident Should Fund Her Own Care Fees
Case Study: Challenging A Local Authority Financial Assessment & Obtaining Funding For Care Home Fees
Case Study: Helping A Client Recover A “Community Fee”
Case Study: Helping A Family Plan For Care Of Their Son Following A Brain Injury
Case Study: Letter Saves Family £70,000 In Care Home Fees
Case Study: Obtaining Full Local Authority Funding of Care Placement Without a Third Party Top-Up
Case Study: Preventing a Local Authority from taking costs of care into account
Case Study: Recovering Over £12,000 From A Care Provider
Case Study: Securing a disregard of a jointly owned second property from a Financial Assessment
Case Study: Successful Challenge to Inadequate Social Services Funding Offer for 24-hour Care at Home
FAQs: Paying For Care Fees
Power of Attorney
Case Study: Making A Lasting Power Of Attorney After A Diagnosis Of Dementia
Factsheet: Preparing A Lasting Power Of Attorney
FAQs: Why is Advance Care Planning Important?
FAQs: Lasting Powers of Attorney
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Case Study: Client Opposes Unfair Safeguarding Investigation
Case Study: Safeguarding & Best Interests – Protecting Adults At Risk
Case Study: Safeguarding a Vulnerable Adult when Reports to Local Authority were Ignored
Case Study: Solicitor Mediates In Safeguarding Dispute
FAQs: Safeguarding & Best Interest Decision Making
Section 117 Aftercare
Case Study: How we won the right for a client to choose a care home for her husband under Section 117 without having to pay top up fees
Case Study: Securing a substantial Section 117 aftercare back payment
FAQs: Section 117 Aftercare
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Why Employers & Employees Should Use Specialist Employment Lawyers To Offer & Sign Off Settlement Agreements
02/02/16:
Zero Hours Contracts – have January’s changes made them fairer?
21/12/15:
New Year – New Contracts Campaign
15/12/15:
Safeguarding, Well-being & Dignity In Social Care: Why Are They So Hard To Balance?
15/12/15:
Local Authority Financial Assessments: Top Tips For Getting These Right
14/12/15:
Disability Awareness – How Can Disability Rights Be Improved In The Workplace?
27/11/15:
New Year – New Contracts
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The Law Society National Pro Bono Week – 2-6 November 2015
02/11/15:
Equal Pay Day 2015: Mind the Gap
29/10/15:
Planning to Remove the Stress Conference
12/10/15:
The Care Act 2014 – Six Months On
09/10/15:
Martin Searle Solicitors Builds Biggest Private Law Community Care Law Team In The South
09/10/15:
Mind The Bump 2015 – A Campaign To Stamp Out Pregnancy & Maternity Discrimination
09/10/15:
Pregnancy & Maternity Discrimination Is Still Rife At Work
09/10/15:
The Law Commission Proposes To Scrap The Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards For Protective Care System
08/10/15:
Action For Brain Injury Week – One Mother’s Story
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7 Key Points On Enforcing Care Debts
09/06/15:
The Care Act 2014 | Rhetoric or Reality?
01/06/15:
Brighton & Hove Business Awards: Why Entering The BAHBA’s Makes Business Sense?
27/04/15:
Settlement Agreements & Paying In Lieu Of Notice
08/04/15:
Compromise Agreements Out, Settlement Agreements In
30/03/15:
Is It Risky To Reuse A Compromise Agreement By Substituting Its Reference To Settlement Agreement?
30/03/15:
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26/03/15:
Why Your Client Will Have To Pay £145k To Qualify For The £72k Cap
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Draining Estates Of Their Value
03/03/15:
Don’t Replace Fair Procedures With Settlement Agreements For Staff On Long-term Sick Leave
03/02/15:
Avoiding Discrimination When Recruiting
20/01/15:
Pay Equality For Fathers On Shared Parental Leave
04/12/14:
Hospital Discharge: In Reality, It’s Not As Easy As It Was For Ruth’s Mum On The Archers
21/11/14:
Carers Summit Guest Speaker – The Carers Centre Brighton – Friday 28 November 2014
21/10/14:
Shared Parental Leave
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Settlement Agreements – More Than One Year On
08/08/14:
Is It Right To Lose Your Dignity When You Need Care?
08/08/14:
A New Streamlined Approach For Dealing With Deprivation Of Liberty In The Wake Of Cheshire West?
21/07/14:
Thank You For Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary
08/07/14:
Settlement Agreements: One Year On
22/06/14:
Keeping Busy In Eastbourne: Positive Employment Law Outcomes
18/06/14:
Mental Health Issues & The Equality Act
23/05/14:
A Decade In Business: We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
19/05/14:
HR Matters: A New Bi-Monthly HR Forum For Brighton & Hove
01/05/14:
Protecting Our Parents: Care At Home
01/05/14:
Martin Searle Solicitors Sponsor Brighton & Hove Business Awards 2014
11/04/14:
Acas Early Conciliation Procedures For Claimants
14/03/14:
Pregnancy & Maternity Employment Law: 10 Points To Remember
14/03/14:
What Can We Do About “Prisoners” In Care Homes?
13/03/14:
Cuts To Adult Social Care Budgets Across Sussex
07/03/14:
Making Legal Expenses Insurance Work For You
20/02/14:
Settlement Agreements: No Shortcut For Capability Procedures
04/02/14:
10 Things To Consider When Hiring For The First Time
10/12/13:
Flexible Parental Leave: Guidance For Businesses & Employees
10/12/13:
Support Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project This Christmas
18/11/13:
Costs Orders Against Unreasonable Employee Tribunal Claims
05/11/13:
Winning Employment Law Cases In Eastbourne
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Croydon Worker Challenges Zero Hours Contract
18/10/13:
Brighton & Hove’s Big Debate: Should Interns & Volunteers Be Paid?
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Can Settlement Agreements Lead To Constructive Dismissal Claims?
29/08/13:
Settlement Agreements: Offer With Extreme Caution
21/08/13:
Employment Tribunal Fees: A Barrier To Justice
19/08/13:
Goodbye Compromise Agreements, Hello Settlement Agreements
08/08/13:
10 Costly Mistakes Employers Make When Dismissing Employees
08/08/13:
Care Funding – What Does The Future Hold?
01/08/13:
“Gifting” As A Deputy Or Attorney: The Rights & Wrongs
15/07/13:
Act Now To Avoid Employment Tribunal Fees
10/07/13:
Whistleblowing Reforms: What Employers & Employees Need To Know
13/05/13:
Imprisoned By The Court Of Protection – A Power Too Far?
23/04/13:
New Eastbourne Office For Martin Searle Solicitors
11/04/13:
How Employers Can Support Staff Experiencing Domestic Abuse
08/04/13:
Will Compromise Agreements Become Settlement Agreements?
11/03/13:
Crawley Expansion for Martin Searle Solicitors
22/01/13:
Martin Searle Solicitors Expands Community Care Team
16/01/13:
Martin Searle Solicitors Raise Over £1,000 For Local Children’s Charity
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10/12/12:
Sussex Business Awards Boss Of The Year 2012 Is Cate Searle
05/12/12:
Carers In The UK Need Better Support & Guidance
23/11/12:
Extension To Flexible Working
21/11/12:
Free Advice For Carers – Carers Rights Day, 30 November 2012
06/11/12:
10 Myths About NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding
23/10/12:
Cate Searle Shortlisted For Boss Of The Year Award
19/10/12:
Wanted: Community Care Law Solicitor / Legal Executive / Caseworker
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Support Burning The Clocks – A Brighton Institution
16/10/12:
Wanted: Employment Solicitor Seeking Exciting New Challenge
10/10/12:
Employment Law Changes 2012: A Retrograde Step
04/10/12:
NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding Interview With Cate Searle
26/09/12:
Celebrate Christmas 2012 At Our Alternative 80’s Party
11/09/12:
Farewell to Wendy Smith – Good Luck!
10/09/12:
How Do Contracts, Maternity & Sickness Affect Annual Leave?
29/08/12:
Auto-Enrolment In Pensions: What You Need To Know
15/08/12:
Introduction Of Fees In Employment Tribunals
02/08/12:
Martin Searle Solicitors Honour Best Employment Law Student
11/07/12:
Is That It? Government Presents Disappointing Social Care White Paper
04/07/12:
Mediation In The Workplace: The Future Of Employment Claims?
19/06/12:
Farewell To Claire Butler – Good Luck!
12/06/12:
Employers Beware Of Hasty Compromise Agreements
21/05/12:
To Like Or Not To Like – Social Media In The Workplace
09/05/12:
NHS Continuing Healthcare Article By Cate Searle Features In Private Client Adviser
26/04/12:
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Legal Network Television Interview Fiona Martin On Employment Law Changes
05/04/12:
Employment Law Changes – April 2012
03/04/12:
Deadline For Reclaiming Care Home Fees Announced By Government
28/03/12:
We Won! Our Night At The Gatwick Diamond Business Awards
22/03/12:
Martin Searle Solicitors Win Digital Media Campaign Of The Year Award
20/03/12:
Top 10 Tips For Defending An Equal Pay Claim
19/03/12:
The Gatwick Diamond Business Awards
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Career Speed Dating: Never a Dull Moment…
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Top 10 Tips For Bringing An Equal Pay Claim
24/02/12:
Top 10 Tips For Choosing An Employment Lawyer
17/02/12:
New Year – New Employment Laws (Part 2)
10/02/12:
Martin Searle Solicitors Shortlisted For Digital Media Award
06/02/12:
Marketing Executive Joins Our Team
09/01/12:
New Year − New Employment Laws
13/07/11:
Care Funding Solicitor Joins Team
05/07/11:
Dilnot Report – How Much Is Fair To Pay For Long Term Care?
28/04/11:
Free Consultation & Discounted Employment Contracts May 2011
06/04/11:
Changes In Retirement 2011 – What Next?
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Additional Paternity Leave Entitlement – What You Need To Know
11/03/11:
Mind The Bump 2011
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Why We Need To Know More About Pregnancy Discrimination
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The Equality Act & Compromise Agreements
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Beware Compromise Agreement Without Prejudice Negotiations
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