Legal News
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Posted 11/05/2010 Employers could be faced with personal injurycompensation claims following research which suggests that excessive overtime could lead to heart problems. A study published in the European Heart Journal...
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Posted 08/10/2009 Employment law needs to be revised in order to make it more family-friendly, according to a new report. The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) believes that less than...
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Posted 21/12/2010 British people have been urged to make Wills as early as they can in life by former politician Ann Widdecombe. The retired Conservative MP for Maidstone and the...
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Posted 08/10/2009 The RSPCA is to appeal after a Will in which it was bequeathed more than £2 million was successfully challenged. A judge ruled that Christine Gill’s mother had...
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Posted 21/01/2011 People in the UK may wish to employ methods of wealth management if they are to avoid passing on large inheritance tax (IHT) bills to their children. This...
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Posted 05/01/2011 The Government’s attempts to abolish regional housing strategies are causing confusion for developers and for local planning authorities alike. In July, the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, tried to...
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Posted 27/05/2014 Tim Gleave, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained over £14,000 for Ms L from Suffolk who injured her back in the interests of good customer...
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Posted 04/10/2009 The government has been called upon to amend an incoming employment law in order to enforce fairer systems of pay for female workers. Ruth Sunderland, business editor for...
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Posted 10/08/2010 Another study has highlighted the importance of using properly-qualified Will-writers for estate planning. The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Step) told the Law Society Gazette two-thirds of...
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Posted 18/03/2015 Ashtons Legal has recently advised the shareholders of Milltech Holdings Limited on the sale of their shareholding in the company to Indutrade UK Limited which is the UK...
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Posted 09/02/2016 Julie Crossley, a clinical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £30,000 for the family of Mrs X, after her local hospital admitted that she had not received...
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Posted 04/08/2009 People who work in the public sector are becoming increasingly concerned about redundancy, a new poll has found. According to a study by Hymans Robertson, 31 per cent...
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