Insights

• Joint property ownership options in France

  • PostedMarch 13, 2020

  Barbara Heslop of Heslop & Platt answers a reader query. Question We are a married British couple with two adult sons. We are currently renting in France but plan to...

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• Coronavirus and Force Majeure

  • PostedMarch 10, 2020

  With the Covid-19 situation evolving each day, and cases in the UK increasing rapidly, we are already regularly speaking to businesses about how their supply chains are being affected. A...

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• Client Rehabilitation Manager becomes Trustee of Steel Bones Charity

  • PostedMarch 10, 2020

  Ashtons Legal is delighted to announce that Client Rehabilitation Manager Caroline Trinder has joined charity Steel Bones as a Trustee. Steel Bones was formed in July 2014 by Emma and...

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• Is an electronic signature on a commercial property document acceptable?

  • PostedMarch 10, 2020

  As more aspects of the business move online, there is a drive to do everything digitally. The process of buying and selling property has always relied heavily on paper, but...

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• Five figure sum obtained for family of Norfolk metal worker

  • PostedMarch 9, 2020

  Martyn Hayward, an Ashtons Legal specialist in asbestos-related disease injury claims, has obtained a settlement payment for the family of a former Heatrae employee who died following a diagnosis of...

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• Celebrating Women in Law

  • PostedMarch 8, 2020

  8 March 2020 is International Women’s Day. Later in this piece, we cast a spotlight on our Head of Group for Personal Injury. But first some background…. 2019 has been...

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• An Insight into being a Woman in Law

  • PostedMarch 8, 2020

  Interview Tell me about your career, both the lows and the highs: Doing my law degree was one of the lows as I really didn’t enjoy it; the internet had...

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• Over £100,000 obtained for family of mesothelioma sufferer

  • PostedMarch 6, 2020

  Martyn Hayward, an asbestos-related disease specialist, has obtained a six-figure sum for the family of a mechanic who died in 2019 after losing his battle with mesothelioma. Mr M developed...

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• Inadequate treatment of ectopic pregnancies puts women at risk of severe harm

  • PostedMarch 5, 2020

  A report released today (5 March) by the NHS’s Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has found that ectopic pregnancies are not being diagnosed quickly enough. Ectopic pregnancies occur when a...

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• East Kent baby deaths: Hospital made same fatal mistakes in 2012

  • PostedMarch 5, 2020

  Maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust are currently being reviewed after 15 babies have died in their care in recent years. Dan and Alison Halligan, the parents of...

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• Woman dies from stroke after being given wrong medication

  • PostedFebruary 28, 2020

  Heather Planner, 87, of Buckinghamshire, died from a stroke after being accidentally given another patient’s medication. Mrs Planner had been prescribed apixaban, a blood-thinning medicine. However when she went to...

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• Closing the Gender Pain Gap

  • PostedFebruary 27, 2020

  Ashtons Legal is proud to have signed up to be an Endometriosis Friendly Employer following a suggestion by a staff member, and someone living with the condition, Jessica Hitchcock. In...

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