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Law firm Browne Jacobson has appointed specialist Higher Education (HE) partner Bettina Rigg to its national education practice where she will be the firm’s Head of Higher Education.

Bettina joins the firm from Bristol firm VWV, where she headed up the HE team and regularly advised universities on a broad range of employment law and student related issues.

Bettina has extensive experience in a variety of complex employment law and equality, diversity and inclusion cases. This includes Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal cases and student matters where she has...

TWO family law experts have launched a virtual Arbitration Service for divorcing or separating parents to get legally binding decisions potentially remotely about their children rather than going through court.

Founders of the Westcountry legal service, Children in the Middle, family barrister, Elizabeth McCallum and Exeter-based barrister, Sarah Evans, have set-up the service to offer people quick decisions with the same enforceability as a court order.

Elizabeth says: “When there are disputes about children, such as how much time is spent with each parent, what their...

Mental health is a difficult subject in customer service. In an often-stressful environment it’s a big concern, how do you make a difference?

When someone phones our team at Westgate for IT support, it is usually the case that the client or enquirer are having problems with their workstation. They are already frustrated and that frustration can attach on to the person answering the call. We don’t often get phone calls where the client is bouncing with joy and happy with their current IT set up but we do get a lot of thanks, daily, in the form of online reviews or through our...

There are many occurrences in any workplace which are unforeseen and unwarranted, and when something occurs, the workplace and its workers should be well-equipped to deal with the circumstance, whatever it may be. But when an accident in the workplace occurs and it has happened due to negligence, improper training or a lack of training, the use of faulty equipment, improper work practices, and it has resulted in an injury to your person, then you can perhaps be eligible for a workplace compensation claim. But if you are thinking of making a claim, there are certain things you can do to...