Work & Employment
Employee or Contractor: Why the Label on the Paperwork Is Not Decisive
How a working relationship is described and how it actually operates can diverge, and most legal systems look at the second rather…
Ganesh Waghmare
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16 articles
Work & Employment
Non-Compete Clauses and Why Courts Look at Them Sceptically
A clause restricting where someone may work after leaving sits uncomfortably alongside the general principle that people should be…
Family Matters
Dying Without a Will and the Default Rules That Take Over
Every legal system has a fallback distribution for people who left no valid will, and it rarely matches what most families would…
Family Matters
Why a Will Needs Witnesses Who Gain Nothing From It
The witnessing requirement looks like an antique formality and is doing serious work protecting the person whose wishes are being…
Family Matters
Joint Ownership Can Quietly Override a Will
How an asset is held can matter more than what any document says about it, and most people never examine the paperwork closely…
Family Matters
Power of Attorney: Authority Granted Before It Is Needed
These documents let somebody act for you, and their whole value lies in having been made while you were still able to make them.
Family Matters
Guardianship Wishes and What They Can and Cannot Settle
Parents can express who should care for their children, and how much weight that expression carries depends heavily on the system…
Family Matters
Trusts Explained Without the Jargon
A trust separates who holds property from who benefits from it, and almost everything else about trusts follows from that single…
Work & Employment
Grievances: The Complaint That Travels the Other Way
Disciplinary procedures run from employer to worker. A grievance runs in the opposite direction, and its usefulness lies mostly in…
Work & Employment
References and the Careful Language Employers Use
A reference that says almost nothing is not an accident. Employers write them under competing pressures, and the caution shows in…
Work & Employment
Discrimination at Work Turns on Reasons, Not Rudeness
Unpleasant treatment is not automatically unlawful. The legal question is narrower and asks what actually explains the difference…
Work & Employment
Changing a Contract of Employment Without Agreement
An employer who wants different terms faces the same obstacle as any other contracting party. The routes around that obstacle each…
Work & Employment
Casual and Zero-Hours Work: The Gaps Between Engagements
Work without guaranteed hours raises a question that ordinary employment law was not built for. What happens legally in the periods…
Family Matters
Changing a Will and the Life Events That Undo One
A will made years ago may no longer say what its author would say now, and in some systems events alone can strip it of effect…
Family Matters
Beneficiary Nominations Often Sit Outside the Will Entirely
Some of the largest assets a person owns pass by a form completed years ago. The will never touches them, which is how plans…
Family Matters
Digital Accounts After a Death and Why Passwords Solve Nothing
Access and ownership are different questions. Handing over a password may breach terms and still leave the underlying legal…