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Why original documents are still important - a handwritten note

Original documents on paper are still important in 2016 and still will be in 2017. To explain why, Sarah Rankin from our Private Client t...

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The Fightback on Increased Immigration Tribunal Fees

Justice isn’t cheap. Employment tribunal fees are up (leading to a 70% drop in claims), a divorce petition costs an eye-watering £550 ...

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Fisher Jones Greenwood dental transactions exceed £28 million

Essex-based solicitors Fisher Jones Greenwood, has announced the value of dental practice transactions, in which the firm has been involved ...

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Challenge to the Home Office’s Detention of Torture Survivors

A recent High Court interim ruling means the Home Office may be forced to reverse its attempts to essentially redefine the meaning of tortur...

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An early Christmas present from Netflix

Netflix has given its users an early Christmas present this week by rolling out offline playback for smartphones and tablets. That means tha...

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Supporting #abetterway

Several members of the family team at Fisher Jones Greenwood are members of Resolution, a community of family justice professionals who work...

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Wills, Life Planning & Probate

Paul Daniels - You’ll like this, not a lot …

The days when every marriage could be expected to last for life are long gone. There are now over 130,000 divorces in England and Wales ever...

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Nationwide – Pulling the Plug on Commercial Lending

Nationwide Building Society has decided to stop lending to new and existing commercial real estate customers after concluding that its resou...

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A new movement of paralegals in Africa in administering community justice

Community paralegals use their basic knowledge of law to resolve disputes and incidences of injustice at a grass root level. Many claimants ...

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Judge grants dying wish to freeze body

A landmark ruling has allowed a 14 year old girl who has died of cancer to become the first British child to have her body frozen in the hop...

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Employee or Worker… or Self-Employed?

A piece of investigative journalism carried out by the BBC has shed light on the working practices of the largest online retailer in the wor...

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Green Card or Trump Card for Syrian Refugees?

It’s been one week since everyone’s favourite celebrity ‘politician’ was put in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet....