We are pleased to say that our Gemma Purt, Solicitor, has successfully applied for renewal of her Law Society’s Mental Health Review Tribunal Panel membership.
The renewed membership lasts for 5 years.Continue reading this article
The Child Maintenance Service will shortly take over dealing with child maintenance claims. Initially this will be for families where there are more than 4 children but it will eventually roll out to all families and the current Child Support Agency will close, although this is not likely to be for sometime until all claims are under the new system.Continue reading this article
Fairweathers Solicitors LLP are delighted to announce that they are part of the recently
launched Kent Family Fixed Fee Foundation working alongside Kent Family Mediation to provide clients with the highest quality service at fixed fee rates.Continue reading this article
As of 1st April 2013 due to a change in the law as one of the current cutbacks most family cases are no longer covered by legal aid.
Legal aid is still available for care cases (those involving social services bringing proceedings to place a child in care) and we continue to offer a specialist service in such proceedings.Continue reading this article
We are pleased to report that we have today received notification that our recent Lexcel re-accreditation audit, which took place last month, has resulted in success for the firm.
Areas that the assessor commended us for, on this occasion, included the following:-Continue reading this article
We are delighted to be able to announce that our bid for Family new matter starts has been successful, this providing us with a permanent Family contract with the LSC.Continue reading this article
We are delighted to announce that, with effect from 1st August 2007, we have been granted a temporary contract to undertake publicly funded family work.Continue reading this article
We are delighted to confirm that our new Family Department opened today.
It will be headed up by Gemma Duckworth who starts with the firm today.Continue reading this article