Compensation Culture: How Insurers Contribute – Professor Richard Lewis

Posted on 23 September 2014 by Lucy Cone

Students of tort at Cardiff learn that “compensation culture” can mean a variety of things. Usually it is associated with an explosion in the number of claims for personal injury damages. Motor claims have doubled in the last ten years and we have seen a rise in insurance premiums. But is this because people now
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Will a rise in the National Minimum Wage be sufficient to turn the clock back on low pay? – Dr Lydia Hayes

Posted on 23 September 2014 by Lucy Cone

It looks likely that in the run up to the 2015 election, all the political parties will promise to do something to improve the national minimum wage (NMW). Since the financial crisis, the NMW has stalled, and gone into reverse. On October 1st 2014 a NMW of £6.50 comes into force. It is based on
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