Legal News
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Posted 03/09/2014 Ashtons Legal has appointed Mark Whittaker and Adrian Mundell as partners in the firm as from 1 September. Mark joined the Cambridge office in early 2013 as a...
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Posted 17/08/2010 A clinical negligence compensation claim has been launched by a mother whose baby died in hospital. Marisa Sanders, 34, went into labour three days before she was scheduled...
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Posted 30/07/2009 The notion that the housing market in the UK is picking up has been challenged by analysts at Firstrung. This week, Nationwide reported that average property values in...
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Posted 18/04/2010 Insolvency remains a real risk for companies operating in the construction and real estate sectors, according to a new report. The industries were two of the hardest hit...
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Posted 13/01/2012 Amid growing concern about the safety of French Poly Implant Prostheses (PiP) implants, the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has announced a review of the arrangements for ensuring the...
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Posted 31/12/2009 Landlords are choosing to demolish buildings in order to avoid paying taxes on empty commercial properties. The regulations relating to relief on empty commercial properties changed in 2008,...
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Posted 27/01/2012 Date: 27 January 2012Author: Simon Crooks Government plans to raise the proposed lifetime cap on care fee contributions by the elderly to ?60,000 have been met with a...
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Posted 26/07/2012 It has been discovered that the Director of BMI Meridien Hospital in Coventry wrote to Consultants at the hospital ordering them to postpone surgery for patients who had...
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Posted 05/05/2010 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies that they will be prosecuted if a personal injury occurs as a result of breached safety regulations. Its warning...
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Posted 22/10/2013 The coalition government as part of its various reviews concluded that there were too many judicial reviews and that “something had to be done about this.” The first...
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Posted 16/03/2015 Ashtons Legal personal injury lawyer Kerry Jones has obtained £94,000 for a lady who suffered injuries to her back and neck when her car was hit by an...
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Posted 09/09/2009 A group of London bankers is taking legal action in order to claim £30 million in unpaid bonuses, which they claim they are owed under employment law. Many...
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