Central list of work

Work undertaken:

• Wills
• Trusts
• Probate and Estate Administration
• Affairs of the Eldering including Lasting Powers of Attorney and Court of Protection
• Some Land Registration work and Declarations of Trust
• Inheritance Tax Planning

Work not undertaken:

• International tax planning

Work undertaken:

• Divorce
• Financial claims
• Trusts of Land/cohabitee claims
• Children Act matters including public and private law (subject to the exception below)
• Inheritance Act Claims
• Family mediation
• Separation agreements
• Pre-Nuptial agreements
• Family injunctions

Work not undertaken:

• International child abduction
• Work on behalf of Fathers for Justice
• Dealing with Appeals to Child Maintenance Service

Work undertaken:

• Freehold Sale and Purchase
• Leasehold Sale and Purchase
• Auction Sales and Purchases
• New Build Freehold/Leasehold Purchase
• Shared Equity Sale and Purchase
• Help to Buy Sale and Purchase
• Remortgage
• Mortgage
• Lease Extensions  (NB – need to be reviewed with Helen Porter if Statutory Notices required)
• Deed of Easement
• Deed of Variation
• Deed of Grant
• Transfer of Equity
• Transfer of part
• First Registrations
• Equity Release Sale and Purchase
• Purchasing Mobile Homes

Work not undertaken:

• Advising on or witnessing signatures to a Mortgage Deed where we are not acting for the client or the lender
• ID forms where we are not acting for the client or they are not existing clients

Work undertaken:

• Accidents at work
• Industrial disease including:
  • Repetitive strain injury (RSI)
  • Industrial deafness
  • Vibration white finger (VWF)
  • Work related upper limb disorder
  • Stress or anxiety
  • Mesothelioma
  • Lung cancer
  • Non-malignant lung and pleural disorders, including:
    • Asbestosis
    • Pleural thickening
    • Pleural effusions
    • Respiratory diseases
    • Asthma
• Serious injury claims including brain, spinal and amputation claims
• Public liability and highways claims
• Trips, slips and falls
• Accidents in the home
• Occupier’s liability/defective premises claims
• Accidents on holiday
• Product defects
• Road traffic accidents
• Other types of injury including -
  • Animal related injuries
  • Needlestick injuries
  • Sport injuries
  • Accident at nursery, school, college or university
  • Accidents in the home (e.g rented properties)
  • Occupiers liability claims/Defective Premises Act claims
  • Public liability
  • Highways claims
  • Diseases – other industrial respiratory diseases including asthma

Work not undertaken

We do not accept instructions in Clinical Negligence/Medical Negligence cases or in any other matters not listed above.

Work undertaken:

• Property and Land related disputes – Commercial and Residential i.e Landlord and Tenant, forfeiture/repossession and breach of tenancy, rent arrears, boundary disputes, rights of way, village greens, trees, dilapidations, service charges and ground rents, mortgage repossession.
• Restrictive Covenants and Easements
• Professional Negligence
• Commercial Disputes – Contracts, the infringement of Intellectual Property rights, companies, partnerships
• Applications for restoration of Companies and other procedural applications under the Companies Act
• Shareholders disputes and misfeasance claims
• Defamation and passing off
• Debt collection for corporate and individual clients – creditor bankruptcy and winding up proceedings
• Setting aside judgments
• Enforcement of Judgments
• Agency work
• Creation of Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreements
• Residential right to Manage, collective enfranchisement, lease extensions (statutory)
• Sale and supply of goods and services, including small building projects
• Employment – High Court enforcement of post termination restrictive covenants

Work not undertaken:

• Planning and environmental law
• JCT Constructions disputes
• Education
• Local Government
• Immigration
• Debtor corporate bankruptcy/insolvency
• Legal Aid

Work undertaken:

• Business sales and purchases
• Share sales and purchases
• Shareholder agreements
• Articles of Association
• LLP and Partnership agreements
• Business contracts - reviewing and creating and in particular:
  • Technology
  • IT and ecommerce
  • Franchising
  • Facilities management
  • Foreign
  • Intellectual Property (trademarks, patents, designs)
  • Self employed or service company consultancy
• Terms and conditions of business
• Shareholder disputes
• Websites
• Data protection
• New businesses
• Licensing (including alcohol and other forms of regulated entertainment)
• Bank documents
• Investment agreements
• Joint ventures and collaboration agreements

Work not undertaken:

• Public listings
• Regulated loan agreements
• Financial Services regulatory advice
• Construction contracts
• Corporate insolvency advice
• Tax Planning

Work undertaken:

• All aspects of commercial property transactions including freehold or leasehold disposals and acquisitions (i.e shops, offices, cafes, warehouses, industrial units, hotels, pubs, hairdressers etc)
• Commercial non contentious landlord and tenant matters acting for both landlords and tenants and including portfolio management (licences to assign, underlet and alter, deeds of surrender etc)
• All aspect of commercial development work including advising on and negotiating S106 agreements and unilateral undertakings; Joint venture agreements; site assembly; option and overage agreements and pre-emption agreements acting for both developers and landowners.
• All aspects of secured lending including commercial re-mortgages, separate representation of Banks, security over residential property to secure business debts; providing separate legal representation to borrowers and/or banks to re-mortgages. Acting for high street lenders (where we are on the panel) or private lending, secured over residential or commercial property.  
• Production of documentation packs for sale by auction and acting on the purchase of property at auction.
• Lease extensions and Enfranchisement.
• We have a particular specialism in Retail Property; the leisure industry including Pubs and Hotels; Petrol Stations. We also provide advice to parties purchasing property for personal pension schemes and manage portfolios on behalf of such clients.
• Acquisitions of development sites (built or unbuilt), setting up estates and plot sales
• Non contentious landlord and tenant work including the grant or renewal of new leases, acting for landlord or tenant.
• Buying or selling freehold or leasehold/portfolios.
• Charities and Church related work (redevelopment of redundant churches and acting for church bodies e.g PCC’s)

Work not undertaken:

• Creation of Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreements.
• Advice on Personal Guarantees other than for existing clients or where referred by a work referrer.
• Advice regarding TUPE in relation to property sales.
• Dealing with right to manage.
• Planning Advice outside of basic advice related to an existing property transaction.
• Tax advice including VAT (other than on whether VAT is payable on a transaction purchase price of rent), CGT and Capital Allowances (save for advice on and the completion of SDLT return forms completed as agents for the client.
• Acting on complex residential sales and purchases or those for established clients.
• Acting on routine conveyancing transactions i.e. sale and purchase of houses, remortgages and transfers of equity.
• High value residential transactions including sales and purchases.
• Dealing with basic trust documentation.

Work Undertaken:

• Employee advice
  • Employee claims
  • Unfair dismissal
  • Discrimination
  • Breach of contract
  • Breach of covenants
  • Contract disputes
  • Settlement agreements
• Employer advice
  • Defending ET claims:
    • Unfair dismissal
    • Breach of contract
    • Equal pay (private sector)
    • Unlawful deduction from wages
    • Discrimination:
      • Gender
      • Age
      • Race
      • Disability
  • Peace of Mind support service with health & safety
  • Human Resources disciplinary and capability investigations
  • Contracts
  • Directors' service agreements
  • Consultancy agreements
  • Staff handbooks and employers policies
• Training Workshops
  • HR Training Services
  • In house
  • External
• HR Consultancy
  • Recruitment and selection in-house support
  • Management of all levels of grievance and disciplinary meetings; investigation, grievance/disciplinary, appeal
  • Management of employee relations issues
  • HR support and consultancy on TUPE/restructure/change of contract
  • Full management of redundancy processes
  • Appraisal and 1-2-1 process development and training
  • Peripatetic HR support/cover

Work not undertaken:

• Public Sector equal pay
• Armed Forces personnel
• Police Officer disputes
• Taxation advice
• Immigration (any such work in this field is referred to a third party firm)
• Publicly funded work

Work undertaken:

• Lump sum investments
• Investment advice to Trustees/Attorneys/Deputy
• Advising on clients going into both residential/nursing care
• Inheritance tax planning
• General financial reviews
• General Insurance:
  • Life Assurance for individuals
  • Keyman Business protection
  • Critical Illness plans
  • Income Protection plans
• Retirement planning both post and pre retirement

Work not undertaken:

• Mortgages – both residential and buy to let
• Equity Release Schemes
• Transferring of company pension schemes
• Selling/buying of shares
• Immediate care annuities