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“The Trusts team have been a great help ensuring our clients have had the appropriate legal advice for their trustee requirements. Their knowledge and appetite for detail is what sets them aside from the rest.”

Nick Heys, Financial Planning Director, Freedom Financial Planning

“Their availability is something we value – we don’t need to wait for the senior partner to come back from holiday.”

Chambers UK, 2014

“My request for employment law advice was managed in a very timely, professional and honest way. I was given excellent and compassionate advice, and the company went above and beyond to give me the help that I needed; I cannot recommend them highly enough.”

Sarah Cousins

“SAS Daniels support and guidance on employment law has always been comprehensive and professional.”

Chris Watson, Stockport Grammar School

“The speed at which you reacted was phenomenal throughout in addition to responding out of hours. The level of service was above and beyond and very much appreciated by both myself and my family. Once again thank you for your advice and support.”

Andrew Findlay

Latest News

Nov29

SAS Daniels Celebrates Top Listing in Leading Legal Directory

We are pleased to announce that we have achieved a ‘Top Tier’ ranking in the latest Legal 500 Directory, the legal sector’s independent directory of law firms. The guide is prepared each year by a team of researchers and is...Continue Reading

Nov26

Promotions at SAS Daniels

Latest promotions for three members of staff have recently been announced across the firm. Claire Porter has been promoted to Senior Associate in the Family Law team based in Chester. She specialises in advising on a wide range of matters...Continue Reading

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Insight & Opinion

Dec02

Office Romances: How can these be Regulated?

Mr Steve Easterbrook, the now former Chief Executive of McDonald’s, has mutually agreed for his employment to be terminated following a consensual relationship with another employee. This follows the resignation of Mr Brian Krzanich, former Chief Executive of Intel Corp,...Continue Reading

Dec02

Could Being an Ethical Vegan Be a Protected Philosophical Belief Under the Equality Act 2010?

The employment tribunal are considering the case of Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports, where for the first time ethical veganism — the philosophical belief by an ‘ethical vegan’ — comes into question. Should it qualify for protection under the...Continue Reading

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How we have helped our clients

Maximising agricultural and business property relief

We acted for executors following the death of the farmer and worked alongside property valuers in claiming and negotiating agricultural and business property reliefs with the Inland Revenue. This maximised the value of the farmer’s estate, which was to pass...

No more sleepless nights

A client was in the process of a divorce who owned their own business and wanted to protect the estate for the benefit of the children. They also wanted to mitigate the potential for a claim being made against the...

Acting for maintained schools

A community school undertook a review of its HR provisions that were available to the school. A number of external providers were considered by governors and they focused on an understanding of the distinct school teachers pay & conditions and...

The Pros of Having a Professional Trustee

Our Trusts team were appointed as a professional trustee under the Will of a client who wanted to ensure that his adult children were appropriately provided for, but taking into account their differing needs and financial positions. They wanted to...

Care Home Contract Issues

Our Elderly, Care & Mental Capacity team acted for a client who wanted to challenge the terms of a care home contract that related to her husband. He had been occupying a room in a residential care home for over...

NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding

Our Elderly, Care & Mental Capacity team acted on behalf of a client who was in a care home and whose needs were reviewed by the NHS with a view to assessing whether or not she was entitled to NHS...

Pensions & Divorce

Pensions are complex and it is important that expert advice is received. Some pensions are ‘high risk’ which means lawyers will strongly advise you to obtain a pension report to ensure that the true value of the pension is known....

What to do with a Will with a Trust

Our Trusts team were approached by executors who had been appointed as trustees of a Trust that was created by the terms of the Will. They had never acted as trustees before and we were able to help explain to...

Bankruptcy Estate

We acted for an insolvency practitioner who had been appointed as the trustee in bankruptcy of a bankruptcy estate. Further to Section 283A of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the “Act”) the client’s interest in a property needed to be ‘realised’...

Disposal of Land to a National House Builder

We represented a group of landowners in the multi million pound sale of their land to a national house builder. The land had the benefit of outline planning permission for 196 houses and was split in to two parcels. There...

Distribution of a farmhouse and land following a death

We advised the family of a farmer on how to distribute the farmhouse and land so that everyone had an equal share following his death. A Will had been made but not updated in many years and it didn’t reflect...

Breach of contract

We acted for a limited company who were facing a substantial claim from an engineering and construction company for alleged breach of contract. We were instructed to defend the claim and after assessing the legal position we were able to...

Protecting a Mother’s Assets

Our Elderly, Care & Mental Capacity team act as Court of Protection Deputy for a client who can no longer deal with her own financial affairs. It is a sad case and the client concerned has a long history of...

Training

We act for a particular client who owns a number of separate businesses operating within the healthcare sector. Our client asked if we could provide practical training to the managers of each individual business, to enable them to properly deal...

Negligence win for a private client

We acted for a private client who had obtained incorrect and negligent advice from a previous firm of solicitors, concerning a probate claim he had made and which arose from his late father’s estate. The previous advice resulted in the...

Condemnation of unfit food. Is a court order required?

We are currently acting for the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) and a red meat slaughterhouse in an appeal to the Court of Appeal in a case concerning the application of section 9 of the Food Safety Act 1990....

Tribunal

In a recent tribunal case we successfully defended a business facing claims of unfair dismissal and disability discrimination from a former employee. The employee had worked for our client in a manual handling role and had been signed off sick...

Preparing for a Will

An elderly client wanted to make a will and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) but due to a fall, needed a home visit as she had fractured a bone in her leg. The medication prescribed also caused some confusion which...

A complex commercial debt

We acted in relation to a dispute between a successful company who supplied fixings and other products in the building industry. A complex dispute arose involving issues of contract and the terms of a consignment agreement. The other party to...

A Company Administration

We acted for the administrators of a company in relation to the pre-pack purchase of the business of the company by a third party unconnected with the former directors. The company operated a restaurant chain across a number of venues...

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