A teaching union is taking legal action against a council over its decision to turn a school into an academy allegedly without holding a proper consultation.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is seeking a judicial review of Bolton Council’s plans to turn Hayward Community Secondary School into an academy.
The NUT claimed the council’s alleged 12-day [...]
Local authorities are looking into the possibility of launching legal action against building companies accused last month of cover-pricing and bid-rigging by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Councils have contacted David Greene, the solicitor behind the Northern Rock and Railtrack shareholder action cases, The Times has learnt. They want to know whether they have a [...]
Dogs seized from L&D Farm and Kennel’s dog breeding operation have come a long way since they were taken from squalid and inhumane conditions at the farm in February.
Most of their sores have healed, their diarrhea has stopped, some have regrown fur. But the people who care for the close to 300 dogs still are [...]
But the higher pay rates for junior doctors on fill in shifts are blowing hospital budgets and taking hundreds of doctors out of training programmes in much-needed specialties.
The Canterbury District Health Board has just cancelled all leave until August for its 60 house officers because it has 26 vacancies it cannot fill and no relief [...]
Just when we were wondering how they could possibly keep the naughtiness of Boston Legal fresh, series creator David Kelley came up with the perfect foil: the new, straight, ultra-conservative managing partner.
Carl Sack (John Larroquette), who exudes Old Boston like a cologne, clearly has some idea that most of the principals of Crane, Poole and [...]
