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Gemma Purt’s Mental Health Review Tribunal Panel Membership renewed

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:49:25 +0000

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. All three members of our Mental Health Team here, … Continue reading →

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Recent Changes to Child Maintenance

admin — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:38:08 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

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Kent Family Fixed Fee Foundation

admin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:46:00 +0000

Fairweathers Solicitors LLP are delighted to announce that they are part of the recentlylaunched Kent Family Fixed Fee Foundation working alongside Kent Family Mediation to provide clients with the highest quality service at fixed fee rates. If clients chose to … Continue reading →

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New legal aid changes are now in force- Family Law

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:30:55 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

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Lexcel Re-accreditation Successfully Completed!

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:52:15 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

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Fairweathers support One Stop Shops for survivors of domestic violence

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:56:12 +0000

Recently established initiatives in Canterbury and Dover bring together sources of advice from various agencies in one place offering drop-in or by appointment help for women who are experiencing domestic violence or have left a violent relationship.Alongside legal advice, there … Continue reading →

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Firm successfully tenders for 500 new matter starts in Family work

admin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:02:19 +0000

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.We bid for between 200 and 500 new matter starts and … Continue reading →

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Firm granted LSC Family Contract

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:03:40 +0000

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.This is a great achievement for our new Family Law fastoesslot.org Department. Initially, the LSC have … Continue reading →

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New Family Department opens

admin — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:23:13 +0000

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.Gemma moves to the firm from Cheltenham. She is a highly experienced family law solicitor … Continue reading →

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