Head of our Employment dept, Paul Harris-Stelfox, is drafting contracts of employment for teaching staff and finance officer, application forms for a teaching appointment, personnel records documents, all for a recently established Academy.

Michael French was with a 21 year old up on a drink drive charge in Trafford Magistrates. He received a 12 month disqualification, fines totaling £300. The bench gave have the option of the drink awareness course which the client availed of. Our Barrister Nick Flannagan represented the case in Court. Client’s anxious mother was also in attendance. They were happy with the outcome and glad that they now have closure on the situation.

Michael Muldoon was chasing the Court of Appeal for a judgment in the Country’s leading PPI case-it should be with us in a couple of weeks.

Nina Mahaffy from the Personal Injury Department is taking instructions from a new CICA client, and negotiating damages for a client who broke her neck in a car accident. Andrew Walker was drafting a witness statement for another accident victim.

Andrew McHale was working on the Firms renewal of its Professional Indemnity Insurance for next year-one of many administrative tasks that requires the input of senior management and stops them earning fees!

Also doing some “behind the scenes” work was Marta Grzelak who was preparing a new website to run in Poland in order to assist the Polish companies pursuing business activities in England.

In Conveyancing Nicola Nolan was completing the purchase of a property and was struggling to get hold of the client in the morning because he was training with the England Football team.

Meanwhile in Sports, Darren Bossons completed a deal to take Emile Sinclair to Peterborough FC. Tom Curle worked on some potential deals on transfer deadline day that frustratingly didn’t come off.

All in a days work here at McHale & Co!