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The guideline levels rise in three-month increments up to 24 months where the maximum £4,215 payout could be received. Those who suffer an injury for between six months and nine months will receive £840 with those suffering between nine months and 12 months being paid over £1,300. Meanwhile, drivers who have an injury for over 12 months but no more than 15 months will be liable for a payout of over £2,000. The new legislation allows for an uplift of 20 percent in “exceptional circumstances” where courts consider damages should be greater than the original tariff. Whiplash reforms will...

Court clears hurdle to coffee reforms Tuesday February 23 2021 By JOSEPH WANGUI Summary The farmers' co-operative societies- Rwama, Gitwe, Thirikwa and Iyego- wanted court to declare the new regulations, which propose sweeping reforms, as unconstitutional, null and void. The societies are from Central Kenya. But justice Weldon Korir faulted them for making general claims on violation of the constitution without citing particular regulations. They failed to link any particular regulation to a particular provision of the Constitution. Agriculture cabinet secretary Peter Munya has received a boo...

ZIMBABWE like the rest of the world had to contend with the effects of Covid-19 for most of 2020. Beginning in March

Offaly TD calls for planning exemption for peat producers Reporter:  '); Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said that government must commit to introducing legislation that would exempt peat operators from requiring planning permission when extracting peat from sites in excess of 30 hectares. Deputy Nolan was speaking following her attendance at the Joint Oireachtas Agriculture Committee meeting that heard from representatives of the horticulture and growing media industry: “Anyone listening to the representatives from the horticulture sector at today’s [Thursday] committee...

Statutory instruments spawn legal crisis Melody Chikono ZIMBABWE’S executive arm of government promulgated a whopping 300 Statutory Instruments (SIs) in 2020 and, in the process, violated laid down procedures in a significant number of these subsidiary laws. This emerged from investigations conducted by The Zimbabwe Independent, in collaboration with Information for Development Trust, a non-profit organisation helping the media to probe corruption and bad governance. Executive bumper Our research discovered that Zimbabwe has made in excess of 10 725 statutory instruments since independence...