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• Ashtons Legal Reward / Discount Scheme. Your feedback would be appreciated

  • PostedAugust 4, 2015

  Posted 04/08/2015 Ashtons Legal is currently undertaking some research into reward / discount schemes and we would be grateful if you could spare a few moments of your time to...

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• Another Ashtons Legal staff member added to the prestigious AvMA panel

  • PostedJune 21, 2015

  Chartered Legal Executive and Associate Sharon Allison has been awarded membership of the prestigious Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) lawyers’ panel. Since its inception in 1982, charity AvMA has provided...

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• Ashtons Legal obtains £920,000 injury settlement for electrician

  • PostedMay 5, 2015

  Tom Ranson, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, represented Mr M, in a claim arising out of a motorcycle incident in 2010. Mr M, who was in his 20s,...

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• The Employment Law Issues in Social Media

  • PostedApril 30, 2015

  Ashtons Legal this week welcomed over 60 delegates to an employment seminar which looked at the impact of social media in today’s working environment. The event, which was run in...

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• Bowel cancers ‘spotted too late’

  • PostedApril 23, 2015

  Thousands of people in England are dying from bowel cancer because their disease is not being spotted early enough, a charity has warned. Beating Bowel Cancer found wide variation within...

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• Planning considerations when building or renovating a property in France

  • PostedApril 9, 2015

  The prospect of building a dream house or renovating a run-down property is always enticing. However, building and renovation in France come with restrictions and it is important to be...

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• Discrimination no longer just a headache for employers

  • PostedMarch 11, 2015

  The prominence of the Equality Act 2010 in employment matters is clear. Replacing the existing piecemeal laws that operated in the areas of protected characteristics (age, sex, disability, race, religion/belief,...

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• The Third Party Tenant – A Warning to Commercial Landlords

  • PostedFebruary 26, 2015

  What should a landlord do on discovering that its tenant has made an unauthorised assignment of its lease to a third party without the landlord’s prior knowledge or consent? Unfortunately,...

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• £125,000 compensation obtained following a road traffic accident

  • PostedFebruary 25, 2015

  Tom Ranson, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained compensation for Mrs M who required medical treatment and specialist orthopaedic review after suffering a ‘whiplash’ injury which then...

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• Secrets in Switzerland lead to big penalty bill

  • PostedFebruary 24, 2015

  Failure to report a cash gift from his late father has landed a carpenter with an £87,000 penalty from HM Revenue and Customs. The case, the first to test the...

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• The Start of Something New: Ashtons Legal Brain Injury Case Management Conference

  • PostedFebruary 5, 2015

  19th November 2014 saw the start of something big.  A long lasting ambition became reality. Ashtons Legal held its first Brain Injury Case Management Conference!  Our Injury Services teams have...

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• Case management: the mags hall story

  • PostedFebruary 5, 2015

  Zak Hall with Paul Humphries (Ashtons Legal Senior Case Worker) Before Our family background My name is Margaret Hall, Mags to all who know me. I met my husband Gary...

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