The Thompson Smith and Puxon (TSP) Family and Divorce team, discuss the widely held misconception that is common law marriage. Despite the fact that the proportion of cohabiting couple families...
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced today that the ‘special measures’ initiative, which was created to trouble-shoot failing hospital trusts, is to be rolled out to include care homes and...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have set out strict new guidelines on the number of nurses that should be available to care for hospital inpatients. In...
Just before the outbreak of World War 1, a team of Colchester Solicitors played a team of Colchester Auctioneers in a cricket match that took place in Lower Castle Park,...
The term “Flexible Working” can cover many situations. It can describe a place of work, such as working from home, or a type of contract, such as a temporary contract,...
After a ruling from the European Court of Justice companies could face floods of claims from commission-based workers for holiday pay they are owed right back since 2008. Richard Porter,...
Statistics show that 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year (mentalhealth.org.uk). It is perhaps not a surprise therefore that...
Stephen Firmin, Head of Agriculture at leading regional law firm Thompson Smith and Puxon (TSP), discusses CAP Reform. The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the system of agricultural subsidies...
Listen TSP’s Clinical Negligence Solicitors, Naomi Eady and Stephen Skinner, join Dream 100’s Murf (Jonathan Murphy) to give answers to common questions surrounding claims for clinical negligence (sometimes referred to...
Several changes to planning law came into force on 6 April 2014. The changes introduce a number of new permitted development rights for change of use: New Class CA allows...
Sharon Auton, who leads the TSP General Civil and Commercial Litigation team, updates us on the variety of further changes that have this month been introduced in Civil Courts. Court...
Businesses that use flexi-time schemes should take note of a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) judgment that an employee, who was not paid on termination of employment for over 1000...
Leading regional law firm Thompson Smith and Puxon (TSP) is pleased to report that Stephen Firmin, a TSP director and Head of the Commercial Property team, has become a Fellow...
Stephen Firmin, Head of Agriculture at leading regional law firm Thompson Smith and Puxon, discusses the installation of solar farms on agricultural land. As the quickest trawl of the farming...
The Court of Appeal has held that clauses in a share purchase agreement providing that, in the event of a breach of the seller’s restrictive covenants, the buyer’s obligation to...
We are all used to preparing for snow and icy weather. We make sure we have some warm clothes, a blanket and a shovel in the car and when there...
My clients are always worried that no matter how fairly they treat a departing employee, the employee will meet a barrack room lawyer and be persuaded to “have a go”...
Headway Essex who provide care and support for survivors of brain injury, their families and carers throughout the County have been presented with a cheque by Colchester and Clacton based...
Payday Lenders have been in the news a lot of late and now BBC’s Newsnight has learned that taking out a Payday loan could endanger peoples chances of getting a...
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has, in a press release today, stated that zero-hours contracts have been unfairly demonised and oversimplified, according to new research that they...
Colchester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has now been put in the special measures category as a result of last week’s cancer records scandal. Colchester Hospital is currently in the centre...
Colchester Hospital, already under a black cloud after being put in the second-from-worst risk category by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) just two weeks ago, has now received a further...
The so called “zero hours” contract has come under scrutiny this week after news emerged that part time employees at a top sports brand andLondon councils were among those employed...
This business briefing sets out the key issues a business needs to understand when an employee makes a claim for constructive dismissal. What is constructive dismissal? Constructive dismissal is the...
Directors and Staff of Colchester and Clacton law firm Thompson Smith and Puxon (TSP) gathered together yesterday afternoon to bid farewell to their former office at 4 North Hill Colchester,...
We all now wonder how we ever survived without email. Modern pressures of time and location will often lead senior managers to despatch a quick confidential email about an employee...
Stephen Firmin of Thompson Smith and Puxon Solicitors talk about the increasing use of promotion agreements in connection with the sale of land for development We are finding that instead of...
Mr David Pattrick of Marks Tey, Colchester died in Colchester General Hospital (Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust) in December 2010 following an elective operation to remove his gall bladder....
This business briefing highlights the key features of the law that governs work on a party wall. It summarises the steps for existing walls, new walls and excavation works. It...
A number of local schools have been criticised for closing during the recent bout of snowy weather. Steve Webb, Head of Personal Injury at Thompson Smith & Puxon, comments on...