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26 October 2012 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7535 / Categories: Blogs
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Law in 101 words

Snippets from Roderick Ramage of The Reduced law Dictionary

Autoenrolment

By 2018, but starting on 1 October 2012 for the largest employers, every employer will have to enrol all its jobholders with qualifying earnings (£8,105 pa), aged 22 and over and under the state pension age, as active members of an automatic enrolment scheme, unless they are active members of a qualifying scheme. If the scheme is money purchase, the minimum contributions will be 8% of pay between the LEL and the UEL of which the employer pays at least 3% and the employee the balance. A DB scheme, which is contacted-out or accrues at 120th of final pay, also qualifies.

Fouling by dogs

Local authorities may pursuant to s55 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environmental Act 2005 make dog control orders under which an offence is committed if it relates to various matters including the fouling of land by dogs and the removal of dog faeces. Land is any land which is open to the air and to which the public

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NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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