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Change in energy standards for UK landlords
29th March 2012

Landlords are being reminded to make sure they’re complying with changes to Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) which will affect all rental properties in the UK from April 6 this year. EPCs – which give information on the energy efficiency Read more...

Home Office launches same-sex marriage consultation
29th March 2012

In what is fast becoming one of the most contentious family law issues in recent times, same-sex marriages could soon become a reality after the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Equalities and Criminal Information, Lynne Featherstone, annou Read more...

Parents ‘still being marginalised at work’
28th March 2012

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination continues ‘unabated’, while employers imposing changes to working patterns which undermine parents’ ability to combine work and childcare are handing parents impossible choices in the workplace, re Read more...

MP calls for change in powered wheelchair law
28th March 2012

Conservative MP Aidan Burley has called for a change in the limit of weight for a wheelchair from 150kg to 200kg. He has also argued that the minimum age for using heavier wheelchairs should be removed. Under the current rules any wheelchair whic Read more...

First time buyers up 23% in 12 months
28th March 2012

Despite signs to the contrary, the past 12 months have been a bumper period for first time buyers, with the number climbing onto the housing ladder up 23% since the start of 2011. Research from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) found that the Read more...