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Posted 01/12/2010 A university lecturer is celebrating after winning a four-year legal battle to reclaim what she insisted was her rightful inheritance. Dr Christine Gill, 58, found that when both...
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Posted 19/05/2013 We are all aware of the Government’s professed fondness for stoking the bonfire of red tape of employment regulation. After all, so the argument goes, what better way...
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Posted 05/06/2013 A motor mechanic who lost a finger working in his company’s workshop has failed in his attempt to win damages from his insurers, after trying to claim for...
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Posted 30/04/2013 The admission of problems by the East of England Ambulance Service after the tragic death of a baby is welcomed as a step in the right direction, as...
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Posted 16/05/2013 Ashtons Legal sponsored The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Clay Shoot, which took place on Saturday 11 May at Wadlow Farm near West Wratting, Cambridgeshire.The event, which was organised...
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Posted 22/05/2013 Ashtons Legal clinical negligence solicitor Ben Ward has obtained a £10,000 settlement for a Norfolk woman who could possibly have avoided a ruptured Achilles tendon if doctors had...
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Posted 08/04/2013 Julie Crossley, a clinical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £17,400 for the widower of an elderly lady who died having suffered unnecessary pain...
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Posted 29/12/2011 Changes to employment law that came into force recently have been welcomed by agency workers in particular.The Agency Workers Regulations began in October – with the first qualifying...
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Posted 11/02/2013 It has been reported that measles cases in England and Wales have risen to over 2,000 in 2012 which is the highest annual total for 18 years. The...
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Posted 08/12/2010 A woman who was jailed for trying to fraudulently claim her father’s entire estate has been told she must give up the assets she was entitled to. Susan...
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Posted 06/06/2013 In most cases of unfair dismissal, the remedy the Claimant is seeking is compensation only. However, it is possible for employees to request that, should their unfair dismissal...
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Posted 20/03/2013 Ashtons Legal Agriculture & Estates Solicitors, Jeanette Dennis and Katie Moreton, are presenting a legal update to over 120 rural surveyors at the ‘Want to Know’ seminar in...
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