bankers

• If we want compensation we should exile the bankers
  Posted on July 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Anyone watching the excellent BBC Four series The Strange Case of the Law can’t fail to have noticed the irony inherent in his premise that the English common law system can be traced back to the simple compensation culture of early Anglo-Saxon Kent. If anything should dispel the myth that we are slipping, or indeed have slipped, into an alarming spiral of moral decline brought about by an American-style propensity to sue for anything and everything, this should be it.
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  Posted in: Justice system
  Tagged: bankers, CICA, claims management companies, compensation, injury tariff, personal injury
• I don't care what their contract says, bonuses are bad for business
  Posted on February 1, 2012 by Louise Restell
  I’ve never received a bonus payment from my employer, unless you count the gift vouchers that were handed out periodically at the law firm where I used to work. I have always accepted jobs on the basis that I get paid exactly what it says in my contract and no more, no less. Naturally, ever year I prayed for at least a 10 per cent pay increase and usually received about 3 per cent, although my last pay increase as an employee was a big fat 0 per cent, along with most of the rest of the working population.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: bankers, bonuses, Fred Goodwin, RBS, Stephen Hester