Celebrate In my experience as a solicitor who specialises in workplace issues, getting fired could be the best day of your life! "Could be". If they didn't want you, take notice. If your organisation was wrong to terminate you, then they are fools - and would you really want to [...]
The peak summer holiday season is approaching and the spurious nature of holiday sickness claims is about to hit home again for tour operators all over Europe. The craze in bogus claims is now so popular that many top resorts are seeing unscrupulous reps touting for business and coaching holidaymakers [...]
You've been injured in an accident that wasn't your fault and you don't know what to do. Life has thrown a spanner in the works. Life can be cruel, so cruel. What do you do now? Do you go to Google to find an injury lawyer? Or, do you use [...]
1. Are they actually a solicitor? Many claims factories employ unqualified paralegals and claims managers (whatever a "claims manager" is".) Check out whoever is dealing with your personal injury claim on the Law Society website to see if they are a solicitor here: http://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/?Pro=True. Just because someone works at [...]
“Do you remember Julia Roberts’ character in the film Erin Brockovich?” asked founder of Truth Legal Solicitors in Harrogate. “She was a personal injury attorney, fighting the big corporations who had made all her clients really sick. She was fighting the good fight -and she won. That’s what we [...]
We have all heard it said many times. “We are a nation of dog lovers.” According to a poll in 2016 by BMG Research , it’s not just a well-worn saying but is backed up by statistics. A nationally representative sample of 1500 UK adults found that almost half of [...]
1. Focus on your injury This is by far the most important thing that you must do. Even if what might at first appear to be only a minor injury, if it isn’t not properly, a minor injury might become a lifelong condition, therefore get a full assessment of your [...]
Q - With Truth Legal approaching its fifth anniversary, tell me how do you feel about the project? A - I'm immensely proud of what we have achieved in a short period of time, and yet I feel that we have only just begun. There is so much more that [...]
Poor medical care in the management of patients suffering from diabetes can lead to complications which at the most severe level can result in limb amputations, most usually of the foot. Where there has been poor management, leading to severe consequences for the diabetes sufferer, including amputation, it may be [...]
Two recent developments have signalled steps towards greater degrees of workplace gender equality. They are: gender pay gap reporting and discrimination in dress codes. Whilst you may be unlikely to see differences from them in the short-term, both developments highlight important issues and may, in time, bring significant changes to [...]