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The New and the Old Unite

NALP is very pleased to announce the alliance between the NALP (National Association of Licensed Paralegals) and the Fellowship of Professional Willwriters and Probate Practitioners (FPWPP).

 

Apart from the benefit of being, or indeed becoming, a member of the Fellowship, the only wills and probate membership body which is actively seeking regulation of the industry from the Government, it also means that as an Affiliate member of NALP, Fellowship members can access the benefits previously only enjoyed by NALP members.

 

NALP is a well respected and highly professional membership body that has, for the last 23 years, been responsible for the Education and Training of many thousands of paralegals across the UK. Read more »

Employment Law Checklist

Below is a guide of your legal obligations once you have employed someone. It is an employer’s responsibility to make sure that the Employment Law checklist is fulfilled.

This guide provides an overview of your responsibilities, with a specific focus on:

  • Recruitment.
  • Terms of employment.
  • Pay.
  • Your ongoing responsibilities as an employer. Read more »

Magistrate stands by ’scum’ comment

A magistrate who is facing disciplinary action after describing two teenage vandals as “absolute scum” has insisted he had used “appropriate” language.

The 16-year-old boys scribbled racist and sexually abusive graffiti on prayer books and bent a valuable cross out of shape in Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire.

Sentencing the pair, who were caught after signing their names in the visitors’ book, Austin Molloy, chairman of the bench, said: “Normal people would consider you absolute scum.”

Mr Molloy said his fellow ma Read more »

Ken Clarke named as Justice Secretary

Kenneth Clarke has been appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as incoming prime minister David Cameron forms his first cabinet.

Details are emerging of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Government, with key cabinet posts confirmed so far including Clarke as the UK’s new Justice Secretary, replacing the outgoing Labour minister Jack Straw.

Clarke, who served in the Conservative cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, holding roles including Chancellor of Exchequer, Health Secretary and Education Secretary, was appointed by Cameron in 2009 as Shadow Business Secretary before being confirmed as Justice Secretary today (12 May) in the new government. Read more »

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