Legal News
£10K obtained for woman with Lupus who suffered Achilles tendon rupture
23rd May 2013
Ashton KCJ clinical negligence solicitor Ben Ward has obtained a £10,000 settlement for a Norfolk woman who could possibly have avoided a ruptured Achilles tendon if doctors had followed up promptly on her reports that she was suffering with heel pain. Mrs F had been suffering with the incurab...
Iodine in pregnancy thought to affect children's IQ
22nd May 2013
Mild iodine deficiency in pregnant mothers is now thought to result in reduced IQ in their children. It has long been known that iodine was important in the development of an unborn child but the effect of mild deficiency had not been researched. In the UK, iodine deficiency has not been t...
Protect your overriding interests and consider voluntary first registrations before Land Registry fees increase
21st May 2013
All Landowners who hold the right to mines and mineral, chancel repair liability and manorial rights are urged to register these valuable interests before the 12 October 2013. These rights are known as overriding interests and have often not appeared on the registered title. From the 13 October 2013...
Agricultural Restrictions: Burden or Opportunity?
21st May 2013
Many of you will still be bearing the scars of obtaining permission for dwellings with agricultural restrictions and you will no doubt be able to recite the wording of the condition that requires the property to be occupied by persons engaged in agriculture etc. The purpose of this article is to sug...
Public and Private Access Rights and Land Registration
21st May 2013
Warmer days and longer daylight hours means increased pressure on the countryside, with public and private access demands inevitably increasing, too. Cyclists and walkers want to follow public routes marked on Ordnance Survey Maps and friends and relatives want to carry on walking and cycling over p...
Employers zeroing in on zero hours contracts
20th May 2013
We are all aware of the Government’s professed fondness for stoking the bonfire of red tape of employment regulation. After all, so the argument goes, what better way of building a stable, sustained economic recovery than by making it easier to sack people in the interests of creating a flexib...
IVF may be boosted by time lapse embryo imaging
20th May 2013
Time lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF according to British research. The method which is reported in Reproductive Biomedicine On-line can be used to select embryos at low risk of defect. Scientists of CARE Fertility Group say su...
Ashton KCJ sponsors Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust event
17th May 2013
Ashton KCJ sponsored The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Clay Shoot, which took place on Saturday 11 May at Wadlow Farm near West Wratting, Cambridgeshire. The event, which was organised by the Cambridge branch of The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, brought together over 40 teams to...
Challenge issued to insurers to bring down the cost of premiums
17th May 2013
The Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) is challenging the insurance industry to commit to passing all of the savings they make as a result of the recent law reforms onto their customers via reduced insurance premiums. MASS estimates that the insurance industry will save as much as £1.4b...
Harmoni admits not enough doctors to cover out of hours care
17th May 2013
Harmoni have admitted to sending patients to an alternative base two miles away when there was not sufficient GP cover in Hackney over the Easter Weekend. Reports in the Daily Mail over the weekend stated that in order to try to address their desperate staffing problems, Harmoni were offering docto...
