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The Senior Courts Costs Office (SCCO) has ruled that pre-decision costs in homelessness appeals are recoverable, marking a major victory for Duncan Lewis Solicitors. This landmark decision reinforces access to justice for vulnerable individuals and affirms the importance of preparatory legal work in challenging unsuitable housing conditions.
Take part in LawCare’s Life in the Law 2025 surveys and help improve mental health in the legal sector. Open to individuals and organisations, these confidential surveys explore workplace wellbeing, burnout, and more. Share your insights by 21st March to shape a healthier legal profession. Learn more and participate today!
2024 proved to be another successful and interesting year for our legal supplier Blanchards. With the growth of the team and their appearance on Channel 4s Key To A Fortune, they have reached new levels of prosperity. In this lookback of their work in 2024 Callum Emmerson discusses the surprises they have come across.
In this article Debra Cairns, Managing Director of Net Defence shares some of the best practices for password management, along with the most commonly made mistakes so that you can avoid them.
Discover John Bolch’s latest family law blog exclusively for our legal supplier Cansford Labs, exploring key legal updates predicted for 2025, practical insights, and expert analysis on family law issues, from divorce to child custody
In this article we bring you the latest of round-up of Robert Spicer’s ‘Health and Safety Horrors’ from his popular LinkedIn posts of health and safety case summaries.
Intestacy is a term frequently used in relation to discussing deaths, beneficiaries, and probate matters. Here we explain what intestacy is, and how it can apply depending on if you live in England or Wales.
CNC Searches was established in 2009 after our director Manny became frustrated with the delays of the conveyancing process and the turnaround time for the searches needed for his property transaction.
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The cost of living has skyrocketed in the last few months and thus is having a significant impact on the inheritance figures. But most people don’t understand how to work around the issue. Therefore, firms offering tracing and other inheritance-related services need to re-strategise how to advise their clients regarding making plans for their estates.
This training session will show you the immediate steps, strategies, and systems to put in place to continue to grow profitably during 2023. Plus, we’ll also discuss which ‘quick win’ strategies will work best for your firm to give you a boost of additional fee income and profit to create (or enhance) your financial safety net in the next 90 days.
Rhys Taylor explains how Casedo works for him in his family law practice.
In his latest blog post written specially for family law professionals, John Bolch compares an adversarial versus inquisitorial system and the pros and cons when it comes to having no legal representation and litigants-in-person cast adrift in the legal system.
Wilkin Chapman LLP is the largest law firm in Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire with over 400 people located across offices in Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth, Horncastle, Beverley and Doncaster. Experts in business and personal law, Wilkin Chapman provides trusted legal and insolvency advice to clients based locally, nationally and internationally.
When a person dies their possessions and assets form an ‘estate’ this estate must then be distributed to the beneficiaries of the deceased. Here Tracing Direct will go through some of the steps involved in finding beneficiaries, and what you can do in the instances where beneficiaries are not able to be found.
Have you noticed in recent months, with the worsening economic crisis, that more of your new enquiries are sensitive about fees, or resistant to paying to get the help they need?
If so, there’s a simple way to neutralise their resistance and have them appreciate the value of getting your help – so they say ‘yes’ to working with you at the fees you
want to charge. It doesn’t involve bragging about your own value, or trying to convince them “I’m
worth it! “. It doesn’t require you to give prospective clients a lecture about what’s good for them
and why they ‘need’ your help.
Instead, it’s about asking the right question, at the right time.
So what’s the right question?
Since their introduction to the western world in the 1950s, magic mushrooms have been inextricably linked with the hippy movement. However, attitudes have changed, and over the years, their popularity has become more mainstream. Home Office data reveals a jump in the number of young people using magic mushrooms – from 49,000 in 2016/17 to 101,000 in 2018/19, while other sources suggest that these psychedelics have ‘become the drug of choice’ during COVID-19 lockdown.
In his latest exclusive, family law blogger John Bolch examines mediation past, present and what the future holds. We know – attending the most recent Resolution event – that this is a hot topic among family law professionals, and championed by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division.
With rising costs and wage increase demands from staff, and the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on the ability of some clients to pay lawyers’ fees, law firm owners need to act quickly to protect their current levels of fee income and profits, and ensure they can continue to thrive regardless of external issues.
Here are 3 Critical Steps to take in the next few weeks:
When it comes to family trees, there are often surprises hidden around every corner. What appears
on the surface to be a simple and direct family history search can quickly escalate into an
expansive and multi generational case, with beneficiaries that cross continents. It’s instances like
this that can often result in lengthy delays in case resolutions for solicitors and their clients. These
complications require the expertise of genealogical research, allowing for accurate identification of
missing beneficiaries and construction of often complicated family trees in order to identify rightful
heirs.
Here, we explain how focusing on productivity can help you to increase efficiency and ultimately improve your performance. We also outline seven workable improvements to adopt to help you boost productivity and reach your full potential.
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