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Government Announcement: HIPs to be suspended with immediate effect

A well drafted Will is an essential and powerful planning instrument enabling you to provide for the future.

Two important changes to Employment legislation come into force from 6 April 2009. The first is the repeal of the statutory dispute resolution procedures, to be replaced by the Acas Code of Practice on discipline and grievance. The other is the extension of the right to request flexible working to employees with children aged under 17.

If you think that due to your personal circumstances you are likely to fall into arrears on your mortgage repayments, a new pre-action protocol (guidance issued by the courts recommending how the parties to mortgage repossession claims should act) for mortgage possession cases has been issued and took effect from 19th November 2008 with the intention of making possession proceedings in the case of mortgage arrears a “last resort”.

Married couples and civil partners whose spouse or civil partner die on or after 1 February 2009, without leaving a Will, are to benefit from an increased inheritance under new legislation.