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Aug 2018

Motoring Law – Could you be caught out?

Most people associate breaking the law in your car with the most common offences: speeding, drink driving and dangerous driving but did you know you can be prosecuted for a wide range of unique, yet still serious offences. Here’s a list of 10 motoring offences you didn’t know were true: Leaving snow on your car’s…

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Aug 2018

Dock Street Office Receive Unusual Request from 8 Year Old Liverpool Fan

The team at Chadwick Lawrence received a rather unusual request at their Leeds office from a young Liverpool Fan looking to get in touch with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. Eight-year-old Ahad Khurshid sent manager Klopp a letter offering to play for the Premier League club, asking for a contract with the team. Instead of finding…

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29
Aug 2018

Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors and PwC give their support to The Piece Hall Trust

Yorkshire legal firm Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors and leading professional services firm PwC have become corporate members of The Piece Hall Trust. As the charity that runs The Piece Hall begins its second year at the helm, the Trust’s corporate membership scheme is now five‐strong, with businesses of all scales and sectors keen to support the multi awardwinning…

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24
Aug 2018

Worrying figures released for ambulance waiting times

New figures, obtained after a Freedom of Information request, have shown that four trusts took over 24 hours to respond to emergency calls, whilst one patient waited 62 hours for an ambulance. In the 12 months between June 2017 and June 2018, ambulances from four trusts took 24 hours to respond to emergency calls, which…

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24
Aug 2018

New drug combination can ‘shrink cancer tumours’

Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital have trialled a new drug combination, which they say may give patients with advanced lung or ovarian cancer more months of life, by stalling cancer growth and making some tumours shrink. The therapy was tested on 40 patients with squamous non-small cell lung…

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24
Aug 2018

Shortage of radiologists affecting cancer care

It has emerged that a shortage of senior radiologists throughout the UK is resulting in patient delays, affecting cancer and other medical care. Figures suggest that although radiologists’ workload has increased by 30 per cent in the five years from 2012 to 2017, the number of consultant radiologists has gone up in that time by…

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