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Legal 500 2011 Results

September 30th, 2011 by Paris Smith News

Paris Smith are delighted to be recommended as a top tier firm in Employment Law, Family Law and Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate Law.

We have also been “recommended” for our expertise in the following practice areas:-

Corporate and Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Banking and Finance, Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Charities, Local Government, Commercial Property, Planning, Intellectual Property, IT and Telecoms and Sport.

Three of our lawyers have been listed in the elite “leading lawyers” list, namely Andrew Heathcock (Company Commercial), Huw Miles (Family) and Mark Howarth (Commercial Property).

The following  lawyers have also been “recommended” for their expertise in their fields, namely Sean Davies (Company Commercial), Clive Thomson and Peter Taylor (Dispute Resolution), James McNeil (Banking and Finance), Clive Dobbin and David Roath (Employment), Frank Prior and Neil Davies (Family), Crispin Jameson and David Bird (Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate), Nick Vaughan and Stuart Allen (Commercial Property), Janet May (Planning) (Sport)

Home Information Packs (HIPs) Formally Suspended

May 21st, 2010 by Alan Cousins

After days of speculation, the legal requirement for sellers to provide Home Information Packs (HIPs) has been formally suspended.

Paris Smith sees this as a positive development and most people in the property sector seem to agree that HIPs were an unnecessary expense for people trying to sell their house, adding up to £350 to their bill and slowing down the market.

Sellers however will still need to provide an Energy Performance Certificate, the official energy efficiency assessment of their property.

Grant Shapps, Housing Minister, commented “…the new Government is ensuring that home information packs are history.  This is a great example of how we are determined to get straight down to work and cut pointless red tape which is strangling the market”.

For further information contact john.mansell@parissmith.co.uk