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• Ashtons Legal and Lovewell Blake advise on £4.5 million transaction

  • PostedNovember 30, 2020

  Ashtons Legal has worked with Lovewell Blake’s Corporate Finance team to facilitate a £4.5 million deal which will see Norfolk and Suffolk-based occupational health specialist firm Wrightway Health become part...

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• £15,000 obtained for traffic collision victim with lacerated spleen

  • PostedNovember 27, 2020

  Nick Peake, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement for Mr T after a traffic collision left him with a lacerated spleen. Nick has obtained over...

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• £215,000 for driver injured in head-on collision

  • PostedNovember 27, 2020

  A personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal has obtained a settlement of £215,000 for Mr T after a head-on collision. Mr T, a tipper truck driver, was seriously injured when...

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• 10 reasons why your company should have a Shareholders’ Agreement

  • PostedNovember 26, 2020

  On starting a company with more than one shareholder, shareholders are often advised to make a Shareholders’ Agreement, in order to further regulate the way business between them is to...

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• Employing EU Nationals after Brexit? Thinking about Right to Work checks?

  • PostedNovember 26, 2020

  As the Government’s recent “Time is running out” campaign has highlighted, there are new rules for businesses and citizens in the UK from 1st January 2021 when the Brexit transition...

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• Snapshots from Commercial Property – November

  • PostedNovember 23, 2020

  In this special feature, our commercial property team provide snapshots of the latest commercial property law news throughout November. A tenant covenant to keep premises in ‘condition’ is more onerous...

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• Commercial property leases: A warning against removal of landlord’s fixtures

  • PostedNovember 23, 2020

  Recent case law (Capitol Park Leeds Plc v Global Radio Services Ltd) has established that removal of landlord’s fixtures where vacant possession is a condition of break will preclude a...

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• COVID, Brexit and the Economic impact on Road Transport

  • PostedNovember 20, 2020

  A poll taken at an Ashtons Legal Road Transport event earlier this week showed the impact that COVID, Brexit and the state of the UK’s economy were having on the...

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• Home-Start Norfolk

  • PostedNovember 20, 2020

  Home-Start Norfolk is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support who help families with children under five with practical and confidential support. They support parents across the...

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• Extended furlough scheme (or CJRS) cannot be used for employees working notice

  • PostedNovember 19, 2020

  HM Treasury has confirmed that statutory and contractual notice periods will not be covered by the furlough scheme from 1 December 2020. The first set of amended CJRS guidance was...

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• Ashtons Legal’s Catastrophic Injury team shortlisted at PI Awards!

  • PostedNovember 12, 2020

  We are delighted to announce that the top tier Personal Injury team and the Medical Negligence team at Ashtons have been shortlisted for The Personal Injury Awards 2020 – Catastrophic...

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• Defendant’s poor conduct penalised by costs order

  • PostedNovember 11, 2020

  Defendant’s poor conduct penalised by costs order. It is well known that litigation can be extremely time consuming and costly. The general rule for costs is that the ‘loser’ pays...

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