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May 25, 2017
Duty of Care when Performing Gratuitous Services
In our Summer 2016 edition, we drew attention to the case of Burgess and Anor v. Lejonvarn. If you remember, Mr and Mrs Burgess wanted to have some substantial garden landscape work done to a high level design. Having been quoted a price of £150,000 their friend Mrs Lejonvarn, an architect and project manager by […]
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May 25, 2017
New Court Guidance on Adjudication Enforcement
The Court has set guidance that parties must follow when deciding whether to challenge the enforcement of Adjudicators’ decisions. Essentially, unless the parties co-operate in the enforcement proceedings to agree what the Court will consider, or the Defendant has a natural justice or jurisdictional challenge, there will be no defence to enforcement. Instead, a party […]
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March 25, 2017
Redundancy: What’s the alternative?
Many employers see redundancies as the only way out of economic difficulties that they face. What many employers fail to consider is that these should be a matter of last resort and there are many other possible options open to them to avoid this process. Below are just a few of the successful measures used […]
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February 17, 2017
Viscount Bearsted returns home at last
Blair Gulland, Chairman of Gullands Solicitors has helped to ensure the return of a very important painting of Viscount Bearsted to Mote Park, Maidstone in his role of Trustee of the Maidstone Trust. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted was a very important name in British Commerce during the latter part of the 19th Century and owned […]
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January 4, 2017
Hard working John celebrates his 80th birthday
Gullands consultant John Rice celebrated his 80th birthday recently, and the firm held a celebratory dinner for John’s colleagues and friends. For John, the day took place in what was also just another typical working week. John’s long working career prior to joining Gullands, took him to the position of senior partner in the long-established solicitors firm of Days in Earl […]
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January 4, 2017
Services for individuals at Gravesend
We pride ourselves here at Gullands Solicitors on providing easy to access legal services and advice for individuals, whatever your circumstances. Our team at Gravesend are on hand to help and being situated conveniently in Stone Street and close to the Station, you can make an appointment to pop in, or we can arrange a […]
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January 4, 2017
Gullands recognised by the Law Society of England and Wales
Gullands has once again been certified as a member of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme. CQS provides a recognised quality standard for residential conveyancing practices. Since its establishment in 2011, the scheme has created a trusted community which has helped to deter fraud and continually improve standards across the residential conveyancing sector. Gullands’ partner Alan […]
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January 4, 2017
Ancient woodland and development issues
Natural England and the Forestry Commission publish guidance notes on Ancient Woodland and Veteran Trees. This guidance is considered by local planning authorities when deciding whether to grant planning permission and it should therefore be looked at by planning applicants where there is potential loss of, or damage to, ancient woodland. The starting position given […]
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January 4, 2017
Agricultural Occupancy Conditions
With Government policy typically opposed to the building of new houses in open countryside, it is often difficult to gain planning permission to build houses in such areas. That said, if a house is needed for the proper operation of an agricultural business (e.g. to house workers), planning permission subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition […]
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January 3, 2017
Atypical Workers – a quick reference guide
The “gig economy” is here to stay but the queries we deal with seem to indicate that employers still are unclear about the issues that arise once the employer moves away from the full time 9-5 workforce. Atypical work is any pattern of work which does not fit the classic or traditional concept of an […]
