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  • Shared Parental Leave April 2015 – Is your business ready?

    Shared Parental Leave April 2015 – Is your business ready?

    A new system of shared parental leave is set to be introduced for children due or adopted on or after 5th April 2015. The new system is designed to allow greater flexibility for parents and adopters in relation to caring for the child in th...

  • Clapham & Collinge reaches 60 years and reclaims independence

    Clapham & Collinge reaches 60 years and reclaims independence

    Clapham & Collinge has announced that it has left national legal network QualitySolicitors after four years. The move to re-establish itself as a completely independent firm coincides with Clapham & Collinge's 60th anniversary and i...

  • Unintended consequences of the transferable nil rate band

    Unintended consequences of the transferable nil rate band

    In 2007 the government introduced the concept of the inheritance tax 'transferable nil rate band' whereby the 'nil rate band' of someone who has died (i.e. the inheritance tax free allowance, currently worth £325,000) is increased by the va...

  • Creating a Dementia Friendly Community in Norfolk

    Creating a Dementia Friendly Community in Norfolk

    Last year, we held 6 free dementia awareness sessions in conjunction with Dementia Friends – an initiative lead by the Alzheimer's Society to help spread the word about dementia and to help create dementia friendly communities across Norfol...

  • Converting a Civil Partnership to a Marriage

    Converting a Civil Partnership to a Marriage

    Couples who had registered their Civil Partnership in England and Wales can now convert this to a marriage. After initial criticism of the lack of romance involved in a purely administrative process, there are two options: A stan...

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