Bath solicitor Heledd Wyn, from law firm Mowbray Woodwards, has joined organisations representing older and vulnerable people to raise serious concerns around the government’s online tool for creating Lasting Powers of Attorney. A Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) is a powerful legal document that allows a person to appoint trusted individuals to make important...
Lawyers from Royds Withy King based in Bath have compiled a Directors’ Briefing to help business owners keep on top of the latest legal developments which may affect their working practices and home life. Staying on the right side of retail price-fixing rules The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recently issued an open...
Experts from law firm Stone King, which has an office in Bath, are advising on a national project to help people break the damaging cycle of high-cost debt. The Affordable Loans portal – a partnership between private and social sector bodies – will make it easier for people with poor or no credit rating...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Sarah Lane, head of business property at Bath law firm Stone King, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? At the cinema it was Bridget Jones’s Baby....
Bath law firm Mogers Drewett has become the first headline sponsor of the city’s spectacularly popular Christmas Market. The market, which this year runs from November 24 to December 11, is staged by Bath’s destination marketing organisation VisitBath. It is the South West’s biggest shopping event with more than 170 wooden chalets lining streets...
Regional law firm Thrings has added to its tax planning and trusts offering with the appointment of Michael Westbrook as a partner in its Bath office. Joining from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon – where he worked for six years and was most recently a senior associate – Michael brings a wealth of...
Pioneering recycling business Moore’s has been acquired by a Wiltshire waste management group in a deal handled by the Bath office of regional law firm Thrings. Family-run Moore’s Recycling collects and recycles waste plastic, packaging and cardboard from national blue-chip clients such as DHL, Coca Cola, Bernard Matthews, Argos and Marks & Spencer. It is...
Mergers and acquisitions among the region’s law firms could intensify next year, according to new legal sector research, with nearly half expecting to be involved in deals. The latest annual legal market survey from accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson reveals that 43% of law firms in the South West are...
Bath’s small and medium-sized firms should use the next two years to get ‘Brexit-ready’, according to the area’s business support service GetSet for Growth. The organisation, which has just marked its one-year anniversary, said the EU referendum result had already triggered an increase in the number of businesses seeking support for plans to capitalise...
Law firm Stone King has taken on 14 more solicitors and support staff in its Bath office to work across its growing education, charity, business and private client divisions. They include Helen Tucker, who joins as a partner in the firm’s independent schools team. She was previously head of the education sector team at...
