by Liam Hastings | Apr 29, 2017 | Landlord & Tenant | 0 Comments
Flats are usually owned under a long lease. As the term of the lease decreases the flat becomes less valuable. Once the term of the lease is less than 60 years it will become increasingly difficult to mortgage and therefore more difficult to sell and probably less...
by Liam Hastings | Jan 5, 2016 | Litigation | 0 Comments
Hastings & Co Solicitors have recently helped one of their clients win a substantial settlement in connection with a property dispute. We acted for a client in a dispute with her former partner (we'll call him Mr X). The parties had previously lived together and...
by Liam Hastings | Feb 8, 2015 | Litigation | 0 Comments
Hastings & Co Solicitors recently acted for a business in a claim against its former solicitors. The facts briefly were that our client had entered into an assignment of a lease for a shop and the solicitor who acted for them had failed to advise them that there...
by Liam Hastings | Jan 28, 2015 | Litigation | 0 Comments
Hastings & Co Solicitors recently acted for a consumer in connection with a claim against a car dealer concerning a faulty car. The facts briefly were that the consumer purchased a car which subsequently broke down on the drive home from the dealership. Under...
by Liam Hastings | Jan 20, 2015 | Employment Law | 0 Comments
Hastings & Co Solicitors recently acted for an employee in a successful constructive dismissal claim against their former employer. Constructive dismissal occurs when the employee resigns in response to something which the employer has done. The employee feels...
by Liam Hastings | Oct 1, 2014 | Employment Law | 0 Comments
With effect from today the national minimum wage has increased. The rates have increased as follows:- for apprentices the rate has increased from £2.68 to £2.73 per hour. for those aged 16 and 17 the rate has increased from £3.72 to £3.79 per hour. for those...
by Liam Hastings | Sep 9, 2014 | Litigation | 0 Comments
Since blogging on this subject earlier in the year we've had success helping two car owners recover their stolen vehicles. In the first case our client had decided to raise some extra income by renting out his car. He duly found someone to rent his car through an...
by Liam Hastings | May 4, 2014 | Personal Injury | 0 Comments
Max Clifford has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing four teenage girls. Earlier this week Clifford was convicted for a string of sexual assaults which occurred over twenty years ago. One of the women was 15 when Clifford first assaulted her....
by Liam Hastings | Apr 23, 2014 | Personal Injury | 0 Comments
Liam Hastings has been dealing with personal injury claims for the last 14 years and is a member of the Law Society Personal Injury panel. These are some of the cases he has handled in the last 7 years:- £1,650 to a client who was injured when tripped he over a...
by Liam Hastings | Apr 22, 2014 | Solicitors | 0 Comments
Co-op Legal Services have announced an operating loss of £9.1m on a turnover of £33m in 2013. They have also announced a £13m "goodwill impairment" following a reassessment of its business plan, according to the Law Society Gazette. The Co-operative Group has...