http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app News from www.lawadvisers.co.uk en 2012-02-06T08:16:53000:00 hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app/story.81/title.equality-act-2010 Equality Act 2010 timeline General 2010-04-14 http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app/story.80/title.local-fruit-farm-guilty-of-serious-racial-discrimination-against-polish-workers A local fruit farm has been ordered to pay substantial sums to 2 Polish workers forced to live in “appalling conditions”. A total of £26,000 is to be paid by David Leslie Fruits for withholding wages and for racial discrimination. General 2010-04-07 http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app/story.79/title.cross-nurse-cross-with-discrimination-result A nurse yesterday lost her battle to wear a crucifix at work after a judge ruled she should have compromised with hospital bosses. An employment tribunal decided Shirley Chaplin, 54, had not suffered religious discrimination at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital when matrons asked her to remove her necklace on safety grounds. But she said: "This is a very bad day for Christianity." The grandmother from Kenn, near Exeter, was told to remove the necklace as it could be pulled by one of the elderly and confused patients she was caring for. The hospital said she could pin it to her uniform, but she refused. Ms Chaplin's case was rejected by judge John Hollow, who said she should have accepted the offer. General 2010-04-07 http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app/story.78/title.dead-relative-is-not-luggage- Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. General 2010-04-06 http://www.lawadvisers.co.uk/index/news-app/story.77/title.great-granny-tagged A 66 year old grandmother has been placed under a curfew order for selling a gold fish to a 14 year old boy sent in  by trading standards as part of a ‘sting operation’.  She was also fined £1,000.   The curfew order means that she has to wear a ‘tag’ and is stuck at home between 6pm and 7am making it impossible for her to babysit her great-grandson.   The prosecution was brought under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.  The Act makes it illegal to sell pets to children under the age of 16 unless accompanied by an adult.  Pet shops must also provide advice on animal welfare to buyers. General 2010-03-31