Monthly Archives: September 2011

Adams on Twitter

Adams Solicitors are now on Twitter! Find and follow us on www.twitter.com/adamssolicitors

A Father’s Rights

Is the law biased against fathers seeking contact with their children? In child contact applications, the family process is not based on a rights perspective including mothers’, fathers’, or even children’s rights; rather the system is based on child welfare principles and therefore Judges will do what they perceive to be in the best interests [...]

Your mortgage is approved; is your solicitor?

The Guardian this week reported that a number of mortgage lenders are reducing the number of conveyancing firms on their approved panels. This could have costly effects for clients purchasing or selling a property with a mortgage, or re-mortgaging. When you instruct a firm to work on your property transaction the firm will in effect [...]

First Prosecution brought under Bribery Act 2010

It has taken less than two months for the CPS to announce it will be bringing its first prosecution under the Bribery Act. And who is the defendant? A large multijurisdictional business? No. An employee of a business doing trade in the East? No. The first Defendant to be tried under this legislation is… a [...]