Missing or reluctant beneficiaries

Solicitor David Toms examines the ways in which a person can deal with missing or reluctant beneficiaries.

The evidential burden

A heavy burden? 

What to do if an employee leaves without paying their training costs

A while ago I wrote a post about the repayment of training costs and it appears to have hit a nerve. 

I must receive half a dozen enquiries a week from employees keen to avoid having to repay anything to their employers. The article on the MB website also gets several thousand hits a month. (You can read it here).

This time I am writing from the employer’s perspective, expanding the theme and updating it.

EU Parliament approves EU Restructuring Directive

The EU Council may be preoccupied with how and when Brexit takes effect, but the EU Parliament continues to produce new legislation.

On 28th March 2019 the EU Restructuring Directive was approved, and will be in force from 20 days after publication in the Official Journal. This means that each Member State will have two years from the date of publication in which to ensure its own restructuring and insolvency laws comply with the new Directive (the “Directive”). Partner in the Insolvency and Litigation team, Robert Paterson, explains.