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    Fixed fees on issue of a County Court claim

    Proceedings were issued against a debtor who failed to respond to the creditors requests for payment or respond to our late payment demand within the requested time period. Proceedings were...

    Bespoke letter before action

    An employment agency had issued an invoice for £17,000 which was disputed. Previous attempts at eliciting payment had failed. We prepared a detailed letter before action setting out the terms...

    Commercial contract dispute for recruitment agency

    We acted for Mploy Group Ltd in a claim against Denso Manufacturing UK Ltd arising out of a recruitment process outsourcing exercise. The case was the first reported decision in the Recruitment...

    Successful £1million claim for Brook Street who supplied temporary staff to the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012

    We successfully advised Brook Street UK Ltd in a claim against the National Exhibition Centre Ltd (the Birmingham NEC) for circa £1million. Brook Street supplied temporary staff to the London...

    A pharmacy business making a claim against their distributor for breach of contract

    We advised Pharmacina Limited in a commercial litigation claim against Californian based Visioncare Ophthalmic Technologies Inc. Pharmacina is a medical devices distributor based in the UK, specialising in the registration, marketing and...

    Acting as a professional deputy for a client who has no living relatives

    We were referred a client by the Social Services who had an estate of £900,000.  The client needed to move into a nursing home but no one was able to...

    Registration of an enduring power of attorney

    We helped three children who were all appointed as attorneys for their mother under an enduring power of attorney (EPA).  Their mother had lost capacity and we helped them with the...

    Is the enduring power of attorney valid?

    A client had signed an enduring power of attorney (EPA) before the rules changed in 2007 but not all of the attorneys had signed before this date. We advised the client...

    Successfully claiming care fees for the estate of a woman who had funded her own care

    We helped the personal representatives to act for them in the administration of the estate of a lady who died in a nursing home and who funded her own care...

    Helping to convict fraudsters who conned a vulnerable man out of £750,000

    We were asked to help Mr Hornett, an elderly man, to draft a new Will leaving his estate (£3million) to one of his carers. We suspected undue influence so met...

    A mother making an application to the Court of Protection to be deputy to her brain damaged son

    We helped a mother make an application to the Court of Protection to be appointed as personal welfare deputy together with her youngest son for her eldest son who had...

    A daughter applying to the Court of Protection to be to her mother’s deputy

    We worked with the daughter of an elderly lady who had lost mental capacity and needed to apply to the Court of Protection to be appointed as deputy to deal...

    A mother applying to the Court of Protection to be deputy to her son with learning difficulties

    We helped the mother of a young male adult with severe learning and communication difficulties make an application to the Court of Protection to be appointed as his deputy. Her son lives...

    A finances and health lasting power of attorney for a married couple

    We advised a married couple on their lasting powers of attorney. The couple have three sons who are young adults and they wanted to appoint the right people who would...

    A health and welfare LPA for a couple who didn’t want to be resuscitated

    A married couple did not wish to be resuscitated if either of them were ever in an accident. We prepared health and welfare LPA for the couple appointing their children as their...

    Lasting powers of attorney for a group of company directors

    We worked with a group of directors to help set up lasting powers of attorney for their personal and business finances. The directors wanted to ensure they appointed each other to look...

    A wife claiming her share of the marital pot

    We successfully helped a wife claim her share of the marital pot after divorcing her husband who was dishonest in court. The husband, a managing director, was dishonest in declaring his full...

    Protecting the finances of a City banker following divorce

    We successfully helped a City banker protect his wealth after his wife tried to get more of his money following their divorce. We were able to negotiate a favourable financial...

    A retired wife divorcing her dishonest husband

    We helped a retired wife in her divorce where the combined assets of the couple were in excess of £7million. The case was problematic as the husband did not wish...

    A husband divorcing his wife and sharing the sale of their home fairly

    We worked with a husband to achieve the sale of the family home to ensure that both he and his wife had funds and mortgage capacity to be able to purchase suitable...
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