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11 May 2012
Denison Till's Debt Recovery team has launched a new training
service in effective credit management and debt recovery. The
training package has been developed to meet the increasing demand
for this service from small to medium sized businesses; it covers
all aspects of debt recovery from letters before action to issuing
court proceedings and enforcing Judgme...Read more
31 March 2012
Johanne Spittle, Head of Dispute Resolution, in an article in
the Yorkshire Post on 31 March 2012 warns that anyone who was sold
a bank hedging product known as a 'Swap' or a 'Collar' in 2006 and
plans legal action over alleged mis-selling should seek advice to
check if they risk being time-barred.
Many people who have initially sought redress through the
...Read more
27 March 2012
MORE than 250 business and personal debt cases in York and North
Yorkshire have been handled by a York law firm in the last three
months.
Denison Till said it had seen the number of people and
enterprises going bankrupt more than treble in the last ten years,
and they expected it to continue to rise.
Chartered legal executive Emma Major, who head...Read more
01 March 2012
There is much truth in the old adage that you cannot get blood
out of a stone - and let me say straight away that there is no
point in spending time, money and emotional energy in trying to do
so. However, where someone has money but chooses to be
downright awkward and not to pay, the law can come to your
aid….
In a family context, in most cases cou...Read more
01 February 2012
Children's interests or Parents' rights?
Shortly before Christmas my colleague, Nicki
Mitchell, marched into my office fulminating about a Radio 4 news
item on the subject of the treatment of children following divorce
proceedings. The programme sought to assert that the present
law paid scant regard to the rights of fath...Read more
26 January 2012
THE UNIVERSITY of York is to help businesses benefit from its
expertise in plasma science and fusion after investment in its York
Plasma Institute.
York Plasma Institute (YPI) has developed the Remote Tokamak
Control Room, which enables it to conduct experiments remotely on
hot, ionised gas, known as a plasma, at centres in other parts of
the world, such ...Read more
25 January 2012
You may recall that last month we had a look at the
recent case of Kernott v Jones which concerned a couple who, back
in 1983, had bought a house in their joint names, with neither
party acquiring a greater share than the other. However,
after a series of appeals, in which eight of the country's most
senior Judges took opposing views, it was ultim...Read more
08 December 2011
Access to Finance: The Funding Escalator
With the outlook for the economy remaining uncertain and reduced
access to traditional forms of funding, Denison Till, in
partnership with The
London Stock Exchange and Science City York, are holding an
'Access to Finance' seminar...Read more
01 December 2011
Last month the Supreme Court gave judgment in the case of
Kernott v Jones, the terms of which will affect huge numbers of
unmarried couples. In next month's article, I will consider
what the effect of the judgment will be but first let us look at
how Ms Jones and Mr Kernott got themselves into such a mess.
What follows also goes to show that the o...Read more
