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22nd December 2014

It’s Christmas time (again!)

As you get older life seems to whizz by and so here we are again, approaching Christmas. The party (both family, friends and business) invites are coming in thick and fast. I have two personal problems with Christmas, diabetes and I do not drink (unfortunately). All the delicious Christmassy food, cake, pudding, pies, etc. are […]

17th December 2014

Conflicts of interest – You Are Not Alone

Any conflict of interest is “bad bad bad” (this pithy definition is from an esteemed colleague). Solicitors failing to check whether or not they are acting for both claimant and defendant is a classic and now brokers are under examination from regulators. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that they are taking a dim […]

2nd December 2014

Mesothelioma & good news for claimants

Premiums for after the event mesothelioma claims continue to be recoverable. Further, the recent Supreme Court ruling (Percy Leonard McDonald v Department for Communities and Local Government/National Grid Electricity/Transmissions PLC) has considerably widened the net with respect to who can claim for industrial related mesothelioma. Despite the fact he had never worked with asbestos, Mr […]

11th November 2014

A necessary evil

We all ‘suffer’ from marketing, phone calls in the evening, junk mail, tv advertising, newspaper and magazine advertising, the lists is endless. So, why do companies do it? It only seems to upset potential customers. Well the answer is very simple: IT WORKS. With the increasing sophistication of the internet, adverts are everywhere. I used […]

5th November 2014

Old Meanings and New Words

Why is it that the multi-media language employs the older less fancy Anglo Saxon lexicon: ‘poke’, ‘like’, “hit” “follow” and others for which I hesitate to ask a youngster the latest definition. (Choice Anglo Saxon also works for Monday mornings when the system won’t work.) As regular readers will know there are many ways you […]