The Supreme Court, which is the UK’s highest court, has dismissed an emergency application from lawyers for Noel Conway, a retired lecturer who is paralysed from the neck down by progressive motor neurone disease, to hear a right-to-die case challenging the legal ban on assisted dying. The three Supreme Court justices acknowledged that the issue was…
Yellow Belly beer, brewed by Buxton Brewery, which is at the centre of a trademark dispute, will cease production. An objection to the name Yellow Belly was raised by Batemans Brewery earlier this year. Batemans said the name Yellow Belly was too similar to its Yella Belly Gold. Buxton Brewery said they spoke to Batemans…
Bethany Probert, a 13 year old girl, was severely injured walking along the carriageway on a 60mph unlit road at 5:00pm in December 2009. A hedgerow required her to walk in the road. The defendant driver, Mr Moore said that Bethany was also partly to blame in that it was dark and she was walking…
Christmas and New Years Opening Times 2018 Please note the office will be closed from 5.00pm on Friday 21st December 2018 and will re-open 9.00am on Wednesday 2nd January 2019.
British microchip-maker Imagination Technologies have called off a threatened legal action against Apple over a dispute regarding its graphics technology. In 2017 it emerged that Apple planned to design its own iPhone graphics processors instead of using Imagination’s designs. Imagination’s shares crashed and eventually it was sold off to Canyon Bridge for £550m. Imagination had started…
Last month from the 26th to the 30th of November was “Good Divorce Week” (is there really such a thing?!) which fell during the governments divorce law consultation. Our divorce law is now over 50 years old. There are over 100,000 couples who start Divorce proceedings each year. You may know that unless you have…
Ministry of Justice announces that from early Spring 2019 Manchester County Court will be piloting extended hours to deal with some types of family cases in the late afternoon/early evenings. Although the details of the pilot in Manchester are not yet fully clear it is believed that what is proposed is an additional court running…
Scotland is set to become the first country in the world with a minimum price for alcohol sales after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) and other drinks manufacturers, who argued that the policy was “disproportionate” and illegal under European law. It brings to a close a five-year legal…
The Platt Brothers The Platt Brothers were a textile machinery company founded in 1770 by Henry Platt. The company based in Werneth, Oldham became the largest textile machinery manufacturer in the world, and by the end of the 19th century, it was employing more than 12,000 workers. Henry Platt was a blacksmith who was manufacturing…
World War One Memorial at Oldham Parish Church The Poppies knitted by Louise Davies, PA to Senior Partner Vijay Srivastava, covered the rails of Oldham Parish Church near the memorial. This Sunday marks 100 years since the end of the First World War.