Legal Matters

By Penny Cogher and Larisa Gordan from Irwin Mitchell Since the Government published details about its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, there have been many questions asked about what it means for pensions. While we don’t yet have the complete picture about furloughing and its impact on pension contributions, we

Yorkshire law firm, Jordan Solicitors, are offering a mobile will signing service to combat the limitations COVID-19 are presenting to will writing during the nationwide lockdown. With social distancing looking likely to continue for some time, the team of solicitors at Jordans have decided to significantly adapt their will signing

By Robert Barnard of Lupton Fawcett’s Debt Recovery team These are difficult times for any business and good cash flow must be maintained. This means that businesses will have to strike the right balance between pressing for payment and empathising with their customers, who are in the same boat.

Yorkshire law firm Lupton Fawcett has appointed insolvency lawyer James Richardson (pictured left) as its new managing partner. James takes over from corporate specialist Jonathan Oxley, who has vacated the managing partner’s seat to take on the role of chairman. James has more than 30 years’ experience of advising

Julian Pitts, regional managing partner for Begbies Traynor in Yorkshire, gives some tips on helping businesses survive the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic Last year was a tough one for many businesses, with sustained difficult trading across a raft of sectors that was only just starting to see a

Eleanor Temple, chair of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Kings Chambers in Leeds, responds to Saturday’s (28 March) announcement of changes to corporate insolvency framework: “The UK has a world-leading insolvency and restructuring framework, and the new restructuring tools in this package

A solicitor has returned to the corporate department of a law firm, where he first worked 11 years ago, following the acquisition of Crooks Commercial Solicitors in Wakefield by LCF Law. Michael Crook has joined Yorkshire based LCF Law’s corporate team as a partner, after running Crooks Commercial Solicitors