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22
Feb 2016

Divorce and Your Family Business

Dealing with any divorce or separation can often be fraught with demanding technical and legal difficulties; nothing is truer than where a case involves a family business. It can be a nervous time for those running a company who quite rightly worry about how a divorce might affect the business. When a couple divorce any…

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18
Feb 2016

New cancer treatment brings positive news

A new treatment has prompted excitement after it was reported that over 90% of terminally ill patients went into remission. The therapy took place at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, and was performed on patients for whom all other treatment had failed and who had two to five months to live. The…

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18
Feb 2016

Cancer Research UK reports on rise in cancer cases

According to the charity, there are currently over 352,000 patients being diagnosed with cancer, which is a 12% increase in the rate over the last 20 years. Although experts do say that the rise in diagnoses is in the main linked to the UK’s growing and ageing population, the charity has warned that the survival…

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18
Feb 2016

Six patients each week fall victim to serious NHS blunders

Figures released from NHS England show that these ‘never event’ errors are affecting the lives of hundreds of patients, with 1,200 serious NHS blunders in the past year. These incidents included foreign objects and instruments being left inside patients’ bodies following surgery, the wrong body parts being operated on, and mixing up organs. The analysis…

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15
Feb 2016

Is My Marriage Recognised or Not?

I have been asked this question on a number of occasions, particularly in circumstances where there has been a religious ceremony only.  It is of course extremely important to ascertain whether the marriage ceremony is recognised as that determines, in the event of a separation, whether it is necessary to issue divorce proceedings or not.…

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12
Feb 2016

Yorkshire’s Legal People start 2016 with expansion

Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors have expanded their reach by opening a new office in Horbury, further cementing their position as ‘Yorkshire’s Legal People’ and as a major player within the region. Chadwick Lawrence is a firm with secure and established roots in West Yorkshire which date back nearly 200 years, and remains owned by local Yorkshire…

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