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Massers have secured accreditation to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) for the 4th year running.

The Law Society describes the CQS as providing “….a recognised quality standard for residential conveyancing practices.  Membership achievement establishes a level of credibility for member firms with stakeholders (regulators, lenders, insurers and consumers) based upon:

• the integrity of the Senior Responsible Officer and other key conveyancing staff
• the firm’s adherence to good practice management standards
• adherence to prudent and efficient conveyancing procedures through the scheme protocol

This scheme creates a trusted community which will deter fraud – year on year, we will drive up standards.”

Massers’ re-accreditation signifies the recognition that we continue to meet the high standards our conveyancing clients deserve.

We are pleased to announce that we have appointed two new staff to start at the end of July and beginning of August.

After almost 10 years of service we are sorry to see Suzy Ackroyd leave as Office Manager. Suzy is leaving us on 31st July to get married and will be moving away from Nottingham. We wish her all the very best in her new life. Louise Norman, who joins us on 27th July, will have the task taking the baton from Suzy and with a wealth of office management experience we are certain that she will get to grips with the post in no time at all.

Also, following Lucy Davis’ departure from the Commercial Property Department, we welcome Mandeep Kaur, who will be joining us on 3rd August to work closely with Russell Thompson, Director of Commercial.

We wish them both long and happy careers at Massers.

The staff at Massers have had their own “bake off” to raise funds for Comic Relief this year.

It appears that we have some pretty good bakers in our midst as all of the entries looked and tasted delicious.

Organised by Gail Garner in our conveyancing department, all who wanted to participate paid an entrance fee and James Carley, our own “Paul Hollywood” and Director of Litigation, sampled all of the entries and chose the light, fluffy and scrumptious rainbow cupcakes baked by private client paralegal, Rebecca Holmes, crowning her as Star Baker – many congratulations to her! Second place went to our office manager, Suzy Ackroyd, who baked a lemon and poppy seed bundt cake.

Well done to all of the entrants who took part, a great effort was made by all for a good cause.

All the entries were sold off and over £150.00 was raised for Comic Relief.

We’ve been helping people buy and sell homes for a very long time and receive regular feedback on the great service they’ve received from our friendly and experienced team of conveyancers. Contact us on 0115 851 1666 or at conveyancing@massers.co.uk.

“Seasons Greetings” to all of our clients.

We will be closed from 1pm on Wednesday 24th December 2014 until 9am on Friday 2nd January 2015.

Best wishes from all at Massers Solicitors.

The EAT handed down Judgment on the 4th November in the case of Bear Scotland v Fulton (and conjoined cases), ruling that overtime ought to be included in holiday pay calculations.  The impact on businesses is hugely significant, with companies potentially facing back payments going back several years.  To find out more about this issue and the impact of other recent developments on your business, reserve your place at our free breakfast seminar on 19th November 2014; “A Review of 2014: the changing landscape of employment law”. 

To reserve your place or for more information contact Natalie Abbott at nataliea@massers.co.uk. 

Natalie Abbott, our Employment Lawyer, will be conducting our last breakfast seminar of 2014, “A review of 2014: the changing landscape of employment law” at 9.00am on Wednesday 19^th November 2014 (registration, tea, coffee and pastries from 8.30am).

The seminar will cover the following topics:

• The impact of changes to the Tribunal procedure and the introduction of the Early Conciliation regime.
• A proactive approach to sickness absence management – Fit for Work?
• The flexible, modern workplace – practical effects of the Children and Families Act 2014.
• Significant legal rulings in 2014 e.g. Lock v British Gas (holiday pay) and Kaltoft (disability).

Each delegate can benefit from a FREE contract review to check that their employment contracts are legally compliant.  In addition, delegates will be offered exclusive discounted rates on a range of policies and procedures to ensure that they are equipped to deal with all those changes implemented in 2014.

The seminar is free of charge to clients and contacts of the firm. We expect it to finish at around 10am.

If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to Natalie at nataliea@massers.co.uk including your name, organisation and contact number.

Also if you know of anyone who might be interested in receiving our monthly employment law updates or attending this seminar, please ask them to contact her directly.

Natalie Abbott, our Employment Lawyer, will be conducting our last breakfast seminar of 2014, “A review of 2014: the changing landscape of employment law” at 9.00am on Wednesday 19^th November 2014 (registration, tea, coffee and pastries from 8.30am).

The seminar will cover the following topics:

• The impact of changes to the Tribunal procedure and the introduction of the Early Conciliation regime.
• A proactive approach to sickness absence management – Fit for Work?
• The flexible, modern workplace – practical effects of the Children and Families Act 2014.
• Significant legal rulings in 2014 e.g. Lock v British Gas (holiday pay) and Kaltoft (disability).

Each delegate can benefit from a FREE contract review to check that their employment contracts are legally compliant.  In addition, delegates will be offered exclusive discounted rates on a range of policies and procedures to ensure that they are equipped to deal with all those changes implemented in 2014.

The seminar is free of charge to clients and contacts of the firm. We expect it to finish at around 10am.

If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to Natalie at nataliea@massers.co.uk including your name, organisation and contact number.

Also if you know of anyone who might be interested in receiving our monthly employment law updates or attending this seminar, please ask them to contact her directly.

Bruce Morrison has retired from his consultancy at Massers as of 31 October 2014.  As such, we must point out that no responsibility should be attributed to him under the Company’s services or insurance.  In the interest of our Environmental Policy the company letterheads with his name included will continue to be used until the current stocks are exhausted.