Jul 6th, 2010
by Chris Sherliker.
As an experiment, we recently had our Contested Probate Website – Contesting A Will re-designed because the quality of the leads we were getting from our site, whilst prolific, left quite a lot to be desired.
Indeed, the old website was flatteringly described by one of our probate team as ‘tacky’.
There is no doubt whatsoever that following the re-launch last week the quality of the leads this site has generated is hugely improved.
There is a school of thought that web-site design does not matter and that your advertising can be the child of creative chaos and can look like a ‘car crash’ without it affecting your results.
Posted in: Contesting A Will, Wills and Probate.
Tagged: Contested Probate · contested wills · Contesting A Will
Jun 27th, 2010
by Chris Sherliker.
Re-possession of residential property has just got a whole lot faster with our new, fixed fee Accelerated Possession service.
Thats it.
You blinked?
You missed it.
Permanent link to this post (28 words, 1 image, estimated 7 secs reading time)
Posted in: Litigation, Property, Property Law.
Tagged: accelerated possession · accelerated possession service · evict tenant · repossession
May 27th, 2010
by Chris Sherliker.
HR Expert, David Thompson, has joined Silverman Sherliker to head up Silverman Sherliker Specialist HR Services, a dedicated HR Specialist service
The service will provide front-line HR advice and resources to complement the legal services offered by the firm’s extremely busy employment team.
Innovative Client Benefit
Senior Employment Partner, Nicholas Lakeland, explains how this innovative step will benefit clients:
“Silverman Sherliker can now provide an integrated and complete HR Service thus assisting clients with practical advice and on site assistance whilst also being able to offer Employment Law advice as and when required. Our HR consultants are available to undertake regular weekly or monthly first-line human resources support on a retained basis or to deal with on one-off projects as may be required. The services are flexible and can readily be tailored tosuit a client’s requirements.”
Posted in: Business Legal Advice, Employment Law, HR Services, Human Resources, Interviews.
Tagged: compromise agreement · Employment Law · HR Services · pension schemes · Silverman Sherliker HR Services
May 10th, 2010
by Chris Sherliker.
A question for you:
“Would you sell your right to vote for £750?’
No? I thought not.
Nor would I.
Nor, I suspect would the thousands of British voters who, on Thursday night, had the doors to the Polling Stations slammed in their faces up and down the country, after using best efforts, for most of the day, to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Their extreme outrage and noble indignation was piteous to behold.
It seems fairly clear that these unfortunate Britons, disenfanchised by administrative incompetence, in more than 14 constituencies and in 8 major cities including, London, Sheffield and Birmingham, do have a legal right to claim compensation.
Posted in: Admin, Litigation.
Tagged: ECHR · electoral law · European Court of Human Rights · Human rights
Apr 21st, 2010
by Victoria Russell.
Volcano alert!
All hands to the pump!
etc, etc ……but can travel businesses suddenly ask their staff to work around the clock to cope with the huge upsurge in business?
As the ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano slowly disperse, the rail, road and sea ferry industries have been working at full steam (pun intended) to take advantage of the extra business. This means that employees are suddenly being asked to work greatly extended hours with inevitable legal implications under current employment law.
Posted in: Employment Law, Litigation.
Tagged: Icelandic Volcano · Working Time Regulations
Mar 27th, 2010
by Chris Sherliker.
Last week, the staff at Blackminster School, Evesham contrived to stage an impromptu hoax killing in a playground full of 10 to 13 year olds.
For some unfathomable reason they thought it would be a formative experience for them.
Without any warning, the poor lambs were obliged to witness a hooded figure run up to Mr Kent, their beloved religious knowledge teacher and gun him down in cold blood before running off.
Mr Kent apparently met his maker most convincingly.
This is a preview of
Is ‘Mock Murder’ in School Legal? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Read the full post (1342 words, 2 images, estimated 5:22 mins reading time)
Posted in: Uncategorized.
Nov 13th, 2009
by Chris Sherliker.
Adrian Dayton’s timely book on Twitter for the Legal Profession: Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition
is a ‘must-read’ for all law firms.
Indeed, it should be studied avidly, not only by lawyers, but also by any professional service firm that wants to grow its business fast using Web 2.0 techniques.
As a successful New York attorney turned social media guru, Dayton deals with his subject comprehensively and with an easy authority.
He begins by dismissing, with an unanswerable charm, the main excuses that the legal profession commonly gives for avoiding Twitter. Indeed, in a world where the High Court in London has recently authorised the service of formal legal proceedings by Twitter, it is difficult to understand how anyone can now fail to see the relevance of Twitter to the legal profession.
This is a preview of
‘Social Media for Lawyers:Twitter Edition’ Please RT
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Read the full post (308 words, 2 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
Posted in: Uncategorized.
Tagged: adrian dayton · social media for lawyers
Nov 13th, 2009
by John Abbott.
Picture the Scene
Our defendant clients had been involved in long-running proceedings involving complex copyright issues. There were 10 parties involved in the proceedings some with cross claims against each other.
The legal issues were numerous and complex and the contentions that would have to be determined in court included: Who was the true copyright owner? Had there been joint authorship? Had there been copying? If so, what was the precise extent of the copying? Was similar ‘look and feel’ enough to establish copying? To what extent did the judgment in Navitaire Inc –v- Easyjet (No3) 1725 (Ch) (2005) ECC30 impact on the issues? The question of the personal liability of directors for any infringements by their companies would also have to be adjudicated as well as some very opaque issues of fact.
Posted in: Dispute resolution, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Mediation.
Nov 8th, 2009
by Chris Sherliker.
As I was dancing an idle fly across my corruscating Twitterstream a few days ago, I hooked a tweet from @idealawg on mindfulness for lawyers. It struck a chord. I RT’d it immediately with a deft roll-cast, thus:
The University of Miami Law School is teaching law students the art of mindfulness for lawyers offering its students what it calls ‘a robust contemplative practices offering’ and, a few days ago, The Florida Bar News publicised a Mindfulness Program designed to help lawyers to ‘live in the moment’ on the thesis that contemplative practices for lawyers are key for the effective study and practice of the law.
Posted in: Admin, Business Legal Advice, Legal Skills Training.
Tagged: concentration · legal skills · mindfulness training
Nov 4th, 2009
by Chris Sherliker.
Not anymore. Yesterday, Sir Michael Burton made a ground-breaking ruling in the UK Employment Tribunal that the claimant’s “green beliefs” deserved as much protection in the workplace as that accorded to religious views.
But when does a belief become ‘a philosophical belief’ of the kind that may give rise to a discrimination claim?
Nick Lakeland was interviewed live recently on Candian Radio(the Dave Rutherford Show) and you can hear the entire interview here.
Tim Nicholson claimed that he was unfairly made redundant from his position as Head of Sustainability at Grainger (apparently the UK’s largest residential landlord) and that he was discriminated against because of his beliefs about man-made climate change.
Posted in: Business Legal Advice, Employment Law.
Tagged: Employment Law · redundancy · unfair dismissal
Oct 14th, 2009
by Maria Guida.
The Labour Government promised that the Licensing Act 2003 would foster a ‘continental-style’ cafe culture and bring an end to binge drinking.Has it actually worked?
Er……not yet!
Police chiefs think that the changes have simply moved alcohol-related disorder into the early hours of the morning and have increased or, at least, failed to change, levels of drink-fuelled incidents.
Posted in: Licensing Law, Property Law.
Tagged: Licensing · Property · the Licensing Act
