Haverhill Triathlon Cheque Presentation to Haverhill Scouts
Adams Harrison are proud to sponsor the Haverhill Triathlon and would like to offer our thanks to Jack Tappin and his team whose hard work ensures its continuing success.
We also wish to congratulate those athletes who braved the atrocious weather to compete in this year’s event and as always we are pleased to donate the funds raised to the Haverhill Scouts.
Rebecca Monk with the bouquet provided by the partners to congratulate her on completion of 10 years service with the practice.
Becky is based in our Accounts Department and is also our go to lady for all our in-house IT queries.
The staff at Adams Harrison once again joined in the Christmas spirit raising money for charity by wearing their finest Christmas Jumpers.
Sawston Office – front row left Sue Lawton right Lisa Thornhill – back row left Kath Moralee and right Christine Gee
Saffron Walden Office – left to right Lisa Kitchener; Nancy Carley,; Melanie Pratlett; Alison Helbert; Susan Kerr; Rebecca Monk and front Teresa Pitts
Haverhill Office – left to right – Cathy Buck, Jenny Carpenter, Michelle Salmon
When making a Will you should consider carefully the right Executor to appoint as the role of an Executor carries important legal duties and responsibilities.
It is an Executor’s duty to administer the estate in accordance with the terms of the Will and in accordance with the law. Executors are personally liable for their errors or omissions. It is therefore extremely important you appoint somebody that you trust to carry out this role efficiently and responsibly. You can appoint an individual such as your spouse/partner, a family member or even a close friend.
You may however not wish to put this responsibility on an individual. You are therefore able to appoint professional Executors such as solicitors.
Dealing with the death of a loved one is a difficult time at best. Unfortunately it can also release underlying tensions and resentments between friends and even family members. By appointing a professional Executor such as Adams Harrison this would minimise any disputes that can arise.
Sadly, some Wills are challenged, especially where one beneficiary benefits more than others. Allegations of undue influence or lack of capacity can arise in these cases. By appointing Adams Harrison as Executors, your estate has a professional on hand who can rebut such allegations and robustly defend your last wishes.
If you wish to discuss making a Will or you require any further advice on this, please contact our Wills, Estates and Trust Team.
Leanne Mayes Legal Executive
Good luck and very best wishes to our Emma Laidlaw, Legal Executive who starts her maternity leave today following her office baby shower yesterday.
Jennifer Carpenter and Sue Lawton Of Adams Harrison at Haverhill Schools Fair 2019
Jenny Carpenter and Sue Lawton from Adams Harrison attended the schools fair at the Haverhill Arts Centre from 4pm to 6pm on 13th November. Parents and students attended from Haverhill based schools, Castle Manor School, Samuel Ward School and Churchill School.
We were pleased to receive feedback from the organiser;
I hope you will all agree that between us we have managed another successful event to support the students within the town.
Again, I would like to express both mine and the Partnerships thanks for your efforts to make these events the success they are.
Following the Woolf Reforms in April 1999 with the replacement of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) meant that prospective litigants were to make every effort to settle their differences via pre-action protocols with the intention of avoiding Court proceedings.
The most common aspect of ADR was mediation. Whilst CPR required the Court to manage cases actively by encouraging each party to use ADR the rules fell short of making ADR mandatory. However the risks of costs penalties that likely befall those who ignore such offers of ADR were sufficient to bring them into line. Even if you are successful, an unreasonable refusal to mediate would impact upon your cost recovery.
On the 1st October 2015 the CPR concerning the court’s powers of case management were amended to ‘any other step or make any other order for the purpose of managing the case and furthering the overriding objective including hearing an Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) with the aim of helping the parties settle the case’
Early Neutral Evaluation is an alternative dispute resolution procedure whereby the parties agree to submit their dispute to an independent third-party expert to provide a preliminary view on the merits of the parties’ respective positions.
The evaluation is not binding on the parties unless the parties elect for it to be and is entirely without prejudice. The process is particularly useful where the parties have very differing views of the prospects of success and perhaps an inadequate understanding of the risks of litigation itself.
Until now it has not been clear whether the court could impose ENE on the parties without their consent. In Lomax v Lomax, decided on 20 May 2019, Parker J held that it could not. She held, “on the finest of fine balances”, that she could not order an ENE essentially because the Rules were not clear when one party had not consented to ENE.
The Court of Appeal set aside Parker J’s decision on 6 August 2019. In the leading judgment Moylan LJ’s view on the words “encouraging” and “facilitating” in CPR 1.4(2)(e) did not lead to the implication that consent was required nor was there any limitation on the court’s power to order an ENE hearing to the effect that the agreement or consent of the parties was required.
The decision by the Court of Appeal in Lomax v Lomax has given the court more power in directing ADR no matter how entrenched each party may appear to be.
ENE can be an effective means of dispute resolution to get a practical view of the merits of each parties respective positions without spending large amounts on litigation.
Anton Bilinski
Legal Executive
Many congratulations to Rebecca Monk who turned 30 today.
Rebecca is based in our Saffron Walden office and received lots of presents from the staff and bouquet from the partners.
The ladies in Adams Harrison again supported this year’s Wear It Pink day.
Breast Cancer Now’s wear it pink day is one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, having raised over £33 million since launching in 2002. To see more about this charity please visit www.wearitpink.org
A total of £84 was raised across the three offices.
A small team from Adams Harrison, Lisa Thornhill, Solicitor at the Sawston office and Sue Lawton, attended this Business and Law Careers Fair at the Anglia Ruskin University.
We received a really nice “Thank You” from them.
Sincere thanks for contributing to the success of our Business & Law Careers Fair yesterday.
We had over 200 student visitors and the feedback was excellent. Students commented on how valuable an opportunity it was to meet employers and find out about future jobs in their sector, as well as receiving tips on how to make their application stand out.
I know how difficult it is to find time in your busy diary to support events like these and I appreciate your time and effort.
Emma Jennings | BA (Hons) PGDip
Employability & Careers Adviser
