Private house builders should be handing over their projects to create social housing.

Technology companies will find it easier to safeguard their innovations in the UK after a court ruled that software should receive wider patent protection.

The number of affordable homes in rural areas could increase under new government powers.

A specialist e-crime unit is to be established to help tackle the problem of electronic crime and internet fraud.

A minister has warned directors of hospitals that if it is proved that failure in senior management led to the deaths of patients who have contracted superbugs, they could be prosecuted.

An appeal is being made to the government to equalise the national minimum wage (NMW) for all age groups, Workplacelaw.net reports.

Some 90 per cent of companies are putting their customers at risk of identity fraud, according to a new survey put together for National Identity Fraud Prevention Week.

The emails, texts and calls of people living in Britain could be stored on a national database which would cost an estimated £12 billion to build.

Businesses need to have clear lines of responsibility if their data is being handled by a third party.

There will no longer be a difference between the terms of employment for those on 'ordinary' and 'additional' maternity and adoption leave, Workplace Law Network reports.