Britain’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a new jobs support program to help firms employ people on shorter hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the current furlough scheme ending this month. “The government will directly support the wages of people in work,” Sunak told Parliament on Thursday. It would give businesses “who face depressed demand the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours, rather than making them redundant,” the chancellor said. The new Jobs Support Scheme, a part of the ‘Winter Economy Plan’, will run for six months starting in November, and will be open to […]

The barrister who was mistaken for a defendant three times in one day at court has called for compulsory anti-racism training at every level of the UK legal system. Alexandra Wilson, who specialises in criminal and family cases, put in a complaint on Wednesday and spoke of her frustration about the incident on Twitter. Her tweets, which quickly went viral, resulted in an apology by the head of the courts service in England and Wales. Since tweeting about what happened to her, Wilson said she has been flooded by responses from other black and minority ethnic lawyers who have had […]

sorbetto/Getty As a divorce coach, I’ve been hearing this one thing a lot from clients of mine who are trying to move the hell on… “It wasn’t supposed to be like this.” “We were supposed to grow old together.” “I was supposed to retire in a few years, but now I have to go back to work because of the divorce.” “I was supposed to be on his health insurance, but now I don’t know what I’m going to do.” Supposed to… I should be…. Sound familiar? Ah, the language of expectations. Or rather, unmet expectations that now haunt us. […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will be given new powers that will allow it to force financial institutions to provide information about people’s assets. The firms will be required to pass on customer information if served with a “financial institution notice” by HMRC under new measures proposed in the next finance bill. Read more: Finablr founder BR Shetty resigns amid HMRC probe It will mean a court or the individual’s approval is no longer required. Currently consent is provided by the individual or a tax tribunal must approve the request. The financial institutions covered include banks, investment advisers, fund managers, […]

THE irony wasn’t lost on anybody – just as Phillip Schofield came out, the rest of the world went back in. Seven months after he publicly announced he was gay, any hopes that the This Morning host had of enjoying his new-found freedom were shattered, thanks to lockdown. 13 Phillip Schofield and Stephanie Lowe have started discussing their amicable divorceCredit: Rex Features Instead, the 58-year-old telly favourite has remained hunkered down in the family home he has shared with his wife of 27 years, Stephanie Lowe — and recently applied to convert the garage at the bottom of their garden […]

Delays in cases coming to court are ‘corrosive’ as they force victims to wait for justice, director of public prosecutions Max Hill warns Max Hill said remote hearings should take place to tackle the growing backlog  Courts in England and Wales are grappling with a waiting list of around half a million cases  Delays were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic when courts were forced to shut during lockdown.  By Joe Middleton For Mailonline Published: 19:31, 18 September 2020 | Updated: 01:37, 19 September 2020 Delays in cases coming to court are ‘corrosive’ as they force victims to wait for justice, […]

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday – Friday plus breaking news updates A surge of Covid-19 in London has been confirmed – putting the capital city on track for curbs on socialising and nights out in around a fortnight. The number of cases per 100,000 over seven days has shot up from 18.8 to around 25, the Evening Standard can reveal. The Standard has also seen the official plan drawn up to co-ordinate London’s response to the increase in cases that health chiefs are now braced for. Called “London Epidemic Response Escalation Framework”, it sets out […]

Image copyright Arc Inspirations Image caption Martin Wolstencroft says restaurants have no idea how to plan for Christmas A resurgence of coronavirus has led the government to impose new restrictions on millions of people across the UK. For many restaurants, pubs and bars, the new rules have come just as business is picking up once again. “Another lockdown would be disastrous for our business,” the boss of a bar chain, Martin Wolstencroft, has said. “We’ve done so well to get through the national lockdown, we reopened on 4 July with measures in place, we rebuilt.. and it’s really frustrating.” Mr […]

© Provided by Fatherly Redditor u/wimpyhunter asked a perfect r/AskReddit question, one guaranteed to elicit strong, varied reactions that are as entertaining as anything on the internet: “Divorcees of Reddit, when did you know your marriage was over?” The post has thus far attracted over 2,200 comments. “When i would go down in the basement and pretend to do laundry to get time by myself away from her,” read one reply from u/effectivelysingle, an apropos handle for this particular thread. And that is one of the less upsetting stories. “Medical issue. Hemorrhaged all over the bathroom floor. He was at […]

The coronavirus pandemic has put an “enormous strain” on relationships, as family lawyers predict a “post-lockdown divorce boom”, according to Citizens Advice. Divorce guidance searches have increased since April, following a reduction in visits due to lockdown, the charity said. Views on its divorce webpage on the first September weekend had increased by 25 per cent compared with the same date in 2019, whilst the law firm Slater and Gordon said Covid-19 had “exacerbated” marriage problems. The i newsletter cut through the noise It added that a rise in conveyancing instructions was “signalling an increase in couples separating and wanting […]