News - Sills & Betteridge Solicitors

Fancy another chat? Law firm develops 2nd Interactive Chat Bot

10 May 2019
Firm News

Sills & Betteridge LLP have launched its second online Chat Bot – this time to help employees with issues at work. The Employment Law Bot provides users with information tailored to their circumstances in seconds, and is accessed via the firm’s website https://www.sillslegal.co.uk/employment-law/

Terms & Conditions Part 2 – What Do I Need In My Terms & Conditions?

Euan McLaughlin, (pictured) a partner at Sills & Betteridge and a member of our Corporate & Commercial Team, has written a series of three articles telling you everything you need to know about Terms & Conditions. In this second of this three articles, Euan explains what you need in them.

Terms & Conditions Part 1 - Why Do I Need Terms & Conditions?

Euan McLaughlin, (pictured) a partner at Sills & Betteridge and a member of our Corporate & Commercial Team, has written a series of three articles telling you everything you need to know about Terms & Conditions. In this first article, Euan explains why you need them.

Sills & Betteridge Solicitors Recognised for Helping to Secure Vital Funds for Cancer Research UK

25 Apr 2019
Firm News

The Wills, Trusts & Probate team of Sills & Betteridge Solicitors Lincoln, have been thanked by Cancer Research UK after facilitating over £678,000 worth of gifts from people choosing to leave a legacy to the charity in their will, in the last 3 years.

Maximum Penalties and Awards Update, More Rights for Workers - by Stephen Britton, Head of Employment Law

On 6th April 2019 there were a host of Employment Law changes made due to new regulations being introduced.

Is this the end of no-fault eviction notices? - by Robert Pearson

Successive governments have tried to grapple with the issue of trying to find the right balance between the interests of residential landlords versus the rights of their tenants. The government announced on 15 April 2019 that they intend to abolish so called “no-fault” evictions under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988. Currently, Section 21 allows landlords to terminate tenancies after the fixed term of the tenancy has expired by giving the tenants two months’ notice. This led to concern that landlords were terminating tenancies too readily, and leaving tenants having to find alternative accommodation in a relatively short space of time, with all of the attendant costs and inconvenience involved. There was also a concern that if tenants raised issues relating to the condition of the property, landlords were too quick to simply serve notice to terminate the tenancy if the fixed term had expired albeit that tenants have had some protection against such “retaliatory evictions” since October 2018.