The new £25 congestion charge will increase CO2 by 182,000 tonnes in London, according to an unreleased Transport for London report.
The Scottish Motor Trade Association has joined forces with Giles Insurance Brokers, to offer an exclusive motor trade insurance scheme for its members.
Clients may be aware that there is a procedure under discrimination legislation whereby someone who believed they have been discriminated against can issue a questionnaire in a certain format to ‘draw’ the other side on policies and procedures that are in place (or not) to avoid discrimination.
In a recent case South London and Maudsley NHS Trust v Dathi, Mrs Dathi claimed discrimination because the employer refused to disclose certain documents.
New regulations amend certain parts of the Sex Discrimination Act.
Online used car retailer Autoquake has recruited Gary Nicholls as vice president of retail operations. Until recently, he was sales and marketing director of national cosmetic surgery firm Transform Medical Group.
Seat is launching some special edition versions of its current Ibiza model before the replacement enters the UK in July.
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There will be less stock pressure on UK Ford dealers this year and 2009 because the company has addressed its capacity issues.
Bramall & Jones co-founder Peter Jones has quit the Lincolnshire dealer group in order to join top 10 AM100 group Lookers. AM understands that some of Bramall & Jones's Volkswagen and Audi dealerships are currently in the process of being sold.
If one of the fundamentals of a great used car programme is having stock in the right place, available to the right type of customer, at the right time then Essex Auto Group certainly has that in place.
Vauxhall dealers’ corporate identity will be given an overhaul in August with the launch of the new Griffin badge in July.
Nissan has hailed its huge increase in first quarter registrations. However some dealers revealed they have been self-registering cars in order to win significant bonuses.
Ridgeway Group, the Berkshire and Oxfordshire motor retailer, has appointed Daksh Gupta as group managing director.
Land Rover's Halewood factory has produced its 100,000th Freelander 2, just 17 months after production started.<P>
The Government is wielding the taxation stick like never before in order to push car buyers away from larger-engined and higher emission new cars.
The amount of automotive businesses that went out of businesses in the UK has dropped by 6.1% in the first quarter of this year.
Solus, the Norwich Union-owned group of accident repair centres, has announced that all of its 18 sites have achieved Thatcham BSI Kitemark status.
Lawgistics has always recommended the safest route to changing terms in an employment contract is to get signed agreement from the employee(s).
Sarah Sillars, chief executive of the IMI, has officially opened the UK’s first dedicated training facility for vehicle damage assessors.
Freedom of choice was core to the 2002 Block Exemption Regulation.
Sickness absence whether short or long term gives many problems to Lawgistics clients.
In a recent case (Sharma and others v Manchester City Council) Miss Sharma with colleagues had their hours of work reduced by the Manchester Adult Education Service as a cost saving exercise.
New rules were introduced from 29 February 2008 by the Home Office in regard to employment of immigrants from outside the EU.
At Lawgistics we get a steady stream of problems from clients who use manufacturers trademarks in various ways leading to an approach from some fairly aggressive law firms who want to extract quite serious amounts of money for the use of the trademark!
Before 6 April 2006 more than half a million small business should receive a letter and booklet from the Government giving basic guidance on the new regulations.
As from 6th April 2008, the requirement for a company secretary is abolished.
Conference addresses key issues facing automotive industry’s bid to increase profits.
Most Japanese car parts (Toyota in particular) have traditionally been more expensive than their European equivalents.
Are modern cars boring? Too homogenous, too samey? It’s an easy criticism to level at an industry obsessed with saving money and leveraging economies of scale.
