News for Individuals
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It has been revealed that patients in need of a service called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – NHS England’s talking therapy service – are being left on waiting lists...
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The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”) protects the rights of employees when the business they work for or the contract they work on transfers to another...
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East Anglian law firm Ashtons Legal is joining forces with Leeds-based Heslop & Platt with effect from 29 November 2019 in order to take a leading position in the UK’s...
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A Bury St Edmunds man seriously ill with an asbestos-related cancer is appealing to former colleagues to help him find evidence of where he may have contracted the disease. Ian...
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Stephen Williams, leading divorce lawyer, discusses the effects of divorce on the families mental wellbeing. In a recent survey, 80% of mental health patients acknowledged the detrimental effects of their...
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Members of the New Hospital Campaign (NHC) have successfully raised £20,000 which has enabled them to take Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to a judicial review. The NHC is...
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Ashtons Legal is delighted to have been able to pass on to St Clare Hospice in Harlow and St Nicholas Hospice in Bury St Edmunds fees for the cost of...
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has considered the question of whether annual leave must be carried over from one leave year to another if the employee was...
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Ashtons has recently advised the owners of The Payroll Service Company Ltd (PSC) on the sale of their business to Access UK Ltd (Access). PSC was founded by Jan and...
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Two patients became seriously ill and one patient died after receiving organs that had been contaminated with a fungal infection after the surgeon failed to disclose that when he was...
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Louise Harper, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a £60,000 settlement for Mr P whose vision has been permanently impaired by getting a steel splinter in his...
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A recent high profile case (Scarle v Scarle) has shown the importance of succession planning, particularly in cases of second marriages or cohabitation where a joint approach should be considered....
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