Wosskow Brown Solicitors are delighted to announce that their offices at Attercliffe, Hillsborough and Barnsley have reopened for clients to pop in....
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Financial Planning Help
Wosskow Brown’s Managing Partner, Ian Brown, explains how we can help with clients looking for financial planning advice....
Housing Market Set To Reopen
From today, 13 May 2020, the housing market is back open. Estate agents’ offices can reopen; viewings are again permitted; show homes can open; removal companies and the other essential parts of the sales and letting process can be re-started with immediate effect. Since lockdown restrictions were implemented in March, an estimated 450,000 people...
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Business Support Through COVID-19
Wosskow Brown is here to assist clients through this pandemic as much as ever. We really don’t want to see a return to a deep recession, although latest forecasting shows that we are heading for the deepest recession on record. If this turns out to be true, we are still here in the tough...
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Writing a Will while Social Distancing
We hate impersonal service, so we’re finding it really difficult that we can’t invite you to our offices, and we certainly can’t offer you a coffee. What we are offering to do, is bring your Will to you....
What is Furlough leave?
Wosskow Brown’s Employment Solicitor, Jamie Brown takes a look at common questions about furlough leave and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme....
How Coronavirus changes UK Immigration
The global Coronavirus pandemic has caught everyone out. It is no surprise that there will be visitors to the UK that will be running out of time on their visas. With travel restrictions currently in place, the UK Government has stepped in with measures to help. Visa Extension If you’re in the UK and...
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Moving House During a Global Pandemic
We know that moving house is stressful enough, but in the middle of a global pandemic adds an unbelievable amount of worry. The UK Government released fresh advice on the 26th March 2020 to all parties involved in the process of moving home during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We urge all parties involved in...
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Accident at Work: Hundreds of staff injured at Amazon UK warehouses
Hundreds of people have been involved in a serious accident at work at Amazon’s UK warehouses, over the last few years. According to data from the GMB union, 240 reports of serious injury or near misses were sent to the Health and Safety Executive last year. Making a total of 622 over the last...
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Plans to increase probate fees scrapped by Ministry of Justice
Bereaved families no longer face the likelihood of an expensive bill when applying for probate, after controversial plans to raise probate fees is scrapped by the government. The proposal for increasing fees, announced last November, would have seen the current flat-fee system be replaced by a sliding scale of charges. How probate fees would...
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