The latest news from Blackhurst Budd
Blackpool solicitors Blackhurst Budd are celebrating receiving another feather in their cap with their latest quality award.
The Edward Street firm has recently been awarded the Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS) providing reassurance to clients that it operates best practice and the highest standards.
Article featured in The Gazette - 09/06/14
In a case which drew a clear distinction between the everyday and legal meanings of the word ‘couple’, a man has won the right to claim housing and council tax benefits after his girlfriend moved temporarily to London to study the law.
A case in which a motorist suffered serious head injuries when his Land Rover was squashed beneath a falling sycamore tree gave rise to a novel test case in which a judge was asked to define what is, and is not, a ‘road traffic accident’.
The trustees of the staff pension fund of a wholly Government-owned company have failed to convince the High Court that they do not have to pay the usual levy to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) on the basis that the funds that they administered were already backed by a Home Office guarantee.
Following the launch of Early Conciliation (EC) on 6 April 2014, around 1,000 people a week have contacted the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) with a view to using EC to settle a workplace dispute and 98 per cent of those have decided to try the service.
In a stern warning to neighbours that it pays to get along with each other, landowners engaged in a bitter legal battle over rights of way effectively achieved nothing despite spending four costly days fighting it out in the High Court.
Dominic Haley and Faye Harper from our firm were lucky enough to go sailing upon the ocean waves of the Irish Sea recently aboard a beautiful 50 foot cruising yacht operated by Andrew Dobson of Atlas Sailing Ltd. Dominic Haley shares his experience at sea with us in this article!
In a stern warning to litigants that Sir Rupert Jackson’s reforms of civil procedure are being robustly enforced, a firm of estate agents came within an ace of missing out on the chance of a £450,000 commission due to its failure to serve witness statements before the expiry of a judge-imposed deadline.
A warehouse manager who was sacked for disobeying an instruction to load four banoffee pies onto a lorry before he went home at the end of his shift has been stripped of his right to compensation by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT).
