Legal News

• Critical care unit short of nurses ‘almost every night’ for entire year

  • PostedDecember 9, 2019

  In July, the critical care unit at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, was given the lowest possible rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the health watchdog. Inspectors found the...

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• Mental health service leaves patients waiting months for urgent help

  • PostedDecember 6, 2019

  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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• Landowners’ rights and the Electronic Communications Code

  • PostedDecember 5, 2019

  Communications network providers need rights to put their equipment on private land and the advent of 5G makes this need more pressing.  A new Electronic Communications Code came into force...

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• Watch this space – potentially significant TUPE decision

  • PostedDecember 4, 2019

  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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• Bury man pleads with former workmates for info on where he contracted asbestos-related cancer

  • PostedNovember 28, 2019

  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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• Divorce and Mental Wellbeing

  • PostedNovember 27, 2019

  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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• Local campaigners fight to build new hospital

  • PostedNovember 26, 2019

  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 is delighted to facilitate payments to two local hospices

  • PostedNovember 25, 2019

  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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• CJEU looks at question of carry over of holiday

  • PostedNovember 22, 2019

  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 Legal advises on the sale of The Payroll Service Company Ltd to Access UK Ltd

  • PostedNovember 22, 2019

  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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• Contaminated organs led to transplant patient death

  • PostedNovember 21, 2019

  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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• Over 175,000 mental health appointments cancelled

  • PostedNovember 15, 2019

  A recent survey by Mind has revealed that a high number of children and adolescent mental health services have cancelled up to 175,000 appointments in the year up to July...

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