Regulatory and Crime

• Truck cartel proceedings: Ashtons Legal assistance continues

  • PostedAugust 31, 2018

  Media attention is likely to fall once again this week on the legal situation surrounding the ‘truck cartel’ and the compensation which may be due to many who purchased or...

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• Ashtons Legal has advised Abbotts Leisure Parks in their acquisition of Pettitts Animal Adventure Park

  • PostedDecember 19, 2017

  Based in Reedham in Norfolk, Pettitts Animal Adventure Park is an increasingly popular family entertainment park, consisting of rides and play areas for young children as well as a host...

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• Testing, testing… Numerous types of HGV (and fast tractors) to lose exemptions

  • PostedSeptember 15, 2017

  If it’s grey and has a trunk then it’s probably an elephant – even if you call it a giraffe, a lion or a leopard. And so it is with...

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• HSE annual workplace fatality figures released

  • PostedJuly 17, 2017

  HSE (Health and Safety Executive) work-related fatal accident figures for April 2016 to March 2017 have been published. Sadly, there were 137 fatalities in that period though this is the...

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• Hillsborough: charges announced by Crown Prosecution Service

  • PostedJune 29, 2017

  On 15 April 1989 the Hillsborough tragedy occurred when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives at the Sheffield Wednesday football ground. The events of that day are well known as...

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