Legal

How to deal with customers who won't pay

07 Oct 2008

Aftermarket recently received numerous queries about garages’ rights if a customer refuses to pay for a repair or collect their car. Can you keep it? Can you sell it? Here, legal experts from Lawgistics give you the lowdown

Read more about How to deal with customers who won't pay>

How to Evaluate your Risks and Responsibilities

28 Mar 2008

Nowadays it seems like there are rules and regulations for just about everything. It might seem confusing but here, legal experts from Lawgistics explain which areas of your business you need to consider when making sure you stay the right side of the rules

Read more about How to Evaluate your Risks and Responsibilities>

The Employment Jungle

21 Jan 2008

How to cut a path through the employment jungle

 

To the untrained, taking on new staff can seem like a legal accident just waiting to happen. Here, legal experts from Lawgistics offer a step-by-step guide to getting the right person for the job quickly and simply
 

Read more about The Employment Jungle>

Health and Safety in the Workplace

More than 200 people are killed at work each year with 30 million working days lost at a cost of £30 billion in 2006 due to occupational ill health and injury.

 

Of course, “it will never happen to me” and for many vehicle repair workshops the Health and Safety provisions are a disaster just waiting to happen...

Read more about Health and Safety in the Workplace>

Corporate Manslaughter - are you liable?

FROM 6 April 2008, the Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force in the UK with profound implications for anyone managing or working in a garage.

 

"Car manufacturers could be liable for design faults which cause death, car sales liable for accidents caused by faulty vehicles, or workshops for faulty workmanship, where an accident results in death"

Read more about Corporate Manslaughter - are you liable?>