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Have You Heard About The New Proposed Probate Registry Fees?

James Shingleton, Solicitor at Brearleys Solicitors, intends to support any campaign to object to the Government’s proposal to increase Probate Registry fees. James said “ This is going to affect every single one of us. Despite 84% of respondents, including myself, opposing the proposal to increase Probate Registry Court fees, the Ministry of Justice has […]

Tragic Loss to the Community

Everyone at Brearleys wishes to extend our heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of Jo Cox following the shocking events of yesterday. Jo was an important, well loved and respected member of the community of Batley and Birstall who was dedicated to improving the lives of the members of her constituency. She will be […]

Councils Negligent Repair

Master B was a young child playing in his garden. His parents rented the house from the local council and the council had previous attempted to remove some post from the garden but had left stubs sticking up from the ground and as Master B was playing he tripped over one of these stubs injuring […]

Collapse of Walkway at Summer Fair

Mrs W was visiting the local summer fair in her village and as she stood on the stand by the side of the dodgem cars whilst watching her son the stand gave way and Mrs W fell over as it collapsed. Liability for the accident has now been admitted by owners of the Dodgem Cars. […]

CCTV Helps Trace a Hit & Run Driver

Miss F was a passenger on a bus when another vehicle tried to overtake the bus and drove into and then fled the scene. This bus company had CCTV footage of the incident and from this we were able to track down the driver of the other vehicle responsible and submit a claim to his […]