Mander Hadley is delighted to have retained its Lexcel legal practice quality mark with no corrective action being required on only its third assessment – a standard which is rarely achieved so quickly.

The Law Society’s Lexcel scheme sets out required standards across seven areas: structure and strategy, financial management, information management, people management, risk management, client care, file and case management.

Kind hearted supporters helped raise more than £1,500 as #TeamManderHadley put their best feet forward in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society when they took part in the charity’s Memory Walk at Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham last month.

A total of 31 Memory Walk events have been organised throughout the autumn across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. September 11 saw thousands of people from the Midlands come together to support the Birmingham walk and in doing so raise money for a world without dementia.

Complaints about so-called ‘conveyancing factories’ are on the rise – and Britons are advised to steer clear, according to a chief ombudsman.

The news comes after a regulatory study entitled, Losing the Plot – residential conveyancing complaints and their causes, found that a significant number of complaints were being made about low cost conveyancing services advertised by often unregulated providers.

Mander Hadley’s solicitors are busy writing or updating basic wills free of charge in return for a donation to The Myton Hospices as part of ‘Make a Will Week’, which runs from 3 to 7 October.

The Myton Hospices’ ‘Make a Will Week’ is an opportunity for people to make sure they have an up-to-date will in place, whilst helping to support the hospices’ work with up to 1,000 patients and their families each year. Last year Mander Hadley raised £2,165 for Myton and hope to match or better it this year. The scheme works by the person making the will giving a donation to Myton and in return Mander Hadley prepares the will for no charge.

A Michelin-starred chef has lost his share in the restaurant he established and owned with his former wife in a divorce settlement.

Head chef Steve Drake established Drake’s restaurant in Ripley, Surrey, with his wife Serina 16 years ago. The restaurant has since become a regular fixture in the Michelin restaurant guide.

A County Court has ruled that development work which restricts natural sunlight to property could, in principle, be a breach of a ‘quiet enjoyment’ covenant in a lease, even where no formal right to light exists.

However, in a recent case, it was decided that there had been no breach because the reduction in direct sunlight complained of by the occupants would not result in their flat becoming “substantially or materially less fit for the purpose for which the grant or demise was made”, according to the judge, Mr Recorder Morgan.

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