Welcome to season 4 of The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, you'll hear from Sue Hodgson and Philippa Pearson, family solicitors working in child arrangements and finance respectively. Do you have a hard time with your solicitor? Sue and Philippa discuss why it's feasible...
Apr 03, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Welcome to season 4 of The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, you'll hear from personal injury lawyers, and mental health first aiders, Debbie and Karen. They discuss mental health in the workplace and how Lanyon Bowdler excels in the support it offers to staff. Their work ...
Mar 27, 2023•23 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Welcome to season 4 of The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. West Mercia Search & Rescue help the emergency services find missing people, and respond to floods and civil emergencies every single year, but they need help. During this episode, Andy Neal explains how important the charity...
Mar 20, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome to season 4 of The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. It's over 12 months since our initial podcast about the maternity scandal at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). In this episode, you'll hear from Amy and Alicia about the current situation now that the families h...
Mar 13, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, you'll hear from Brian Evans and Andy Pegg, who discuss the mediation process. Brian is a Mediator, and Andy has been representing clients in mediations for over 15 years. They talk about the pros and the cons of online medi...
Oct 31, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, family solicitor Philippa Pearson is joined by Sam Griffiths from First 4 Mortgages in Leominster, who are able to obtain mortgages for clients over 70, as well as those with IVAs. They source mortgages for residential and c...
Oct 24, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, lawyers discuss the common questions they're asked by people looking to buy a property, along with the steps they take to secure a smooth transaction. Please note the SDLT thresholds mentioned in this podcast have since chan...
Oct 17, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode former colleagues from the Clinical Negligence Team chat about critical care units, what they incorporate, and what makes them up; the team being the key part. For all the resources and reference material from the episodes, a...
Oct 10, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, Katie, and former colleague Jamie, from the Dispute Resolution team talk about making and defending claims in the Small Claims Court. They discuss the pre-action protocol and highlight the importance of following the correct...
Oct 03, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, Steven Corfield from the Agricultural team explains what should be covered in a partnership agreement, what happens if the partnership suddenly ends, how to handle partners with a lesser interest in the business, and how to ...
Sep 26, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode Edward Rees and Alex Spanner chat with Sophie Burgoyne about a day in her life as a trainee solicitor, the importance of attendance notes, to-do lists, how to manage tasks, and how it's healthy to be taken out of your comfort...
Sep 19, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode you'll hear from family solicitor, Philippa who's chatting with Katie (CEO of The Cart Shed charity). They support the wellbeing of adults and children, including serving members of the armed forces, veterans and their famili...
Sep 12, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode you'll hear from Emma from the Clinical Negligence Team, who chats with a former colleague. They look at the current state of the ambulance service, and highlight the slow response times to 999 calls and the reasons why this ...
Sep 05, 2022•14 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. Today you'll hear from solicitors Katie and Jamie, a former colleague, who are looking at the ever-changing landscape of residential property evictions in England and Wales. They cover common misconceptions, mistakes and pitfalls to look out...
Aug 29, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In order to lessen inheritance tax, we're often asked the question "Should I gift my house to my children during my lifetime?" In this episode we hear from Edward and David from our Private Client team, who explain that this is a very comple...
Aug 22, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, you'll hear from Steven from the agricultural team discussing the legal aspects relating to agricultural property. He illustrates various legal issues and relates them to Pop Larkin and The Darling Buds of May. For all the r...
Aug 15, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode, family solicitor Philippa Pearson chats with Suzanne Lowe from Talk Mediation about family law and mediation. They describe the process, which can take place face to face, or online. Suzanne has a specialist accreditation wh...
Aug 01, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During the series you'll hear from special guests, industry experts and local charities. In this episode you'll hear from Jack Fallows from Herald Wealth Management . Jack's talking with private client solicitor David Pugh about NHS pensions and estate planning. If you have a current or frozen NHS pension, this episode is essent...
Jul 25, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, you'll hear solicitors Edward Rees and Neil Davies discuss the importance of good legal advice in relation to The Court of Protection, Lasting Powers of Attorney, wills, and estate administration. Edward refers to two episodes from our back catalogue: This one that Neil hosted with Lucy Speed: https://thelegallo...
May 02, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales, as well as chatting with those making a difference in our local communities. This episode's all about the amazing work of The Headley Court Veteran's Orthopaedic Centre at Robert Jones & Anges Hunt Hospital in Oswestry. Carl talks about his inspiration for creating and developing the veteran's service that's seen around 25,0...
Apr 25, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. During this episode, you'll hear about one of the amazing charities that Lanyon Bowdler supports. The Movement Centre are located within the grounds of The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry. They provide targeted training which is life changing children's physiotherapy. Find out more about The Movement...
Apr 18, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode you'll hear from former colleagues and commercial property lawyers who talk through a scenario which involves somebody taking their first commercial lease on a property, and they cover many of the potential pitfalls. For all the resources and reference material from the episodes, and to request a discussion about...
Apr 11, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, you'll hear from Sarah Kerr about the support Shropshire council offers to all military personnel, veterans and their families, through their armed forces outreach programme. Sarah is ex-military herself, and acts as the Outreach Support Coordinator for Shropshire Council. Here are the website links Sarah mentio...
Apr 04, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode you'll hear about Conwy based charity "Crest", as Katie Baker, chats with their MD, Rod Williams. Crest do some amazing and diverse community work in North Wales with people who are in crisis, which is why they're one of Lanyon Bowdler's chosen charities for 2022. There's more about Crest here: https://www.crestc...
Mar 28, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, Philippa Pearson and Staci Robinson from the family law department are answering that all important question "How much can I expect to receive on a divorce?" Here are the previous episodes that Philippa and Staci referred to during this chat: Resolving family disputes outside of court using Collaborative law: ht...
Mar 21, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode you'll hear from Emma Deering and Jennifer Edwards who are discussing succession planning for businesses, particularly partnerships. They offer insight and explain about wills, partnership agreements and Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA). For all the resources and reference material from the episodes, and to reque...
Mar 14, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode you'll hear a conversation between Lucy Small, who is one of the partners at Lanyon Bowdler, and the CEO of Megan Baker House, Lee Gough. You'll learn about the incredible impact MBH has on the people they work with who have motor disorders, such as Cerebral Palsy. There's more about MBH here: https://www.meganba...
Mar 07, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, a family solicitor chats with relationship therapist Adele Ballantyne about Collaborative Law. This is an alternative solution to mediation when resolving family disputes out of court. You can find out more about Collaborative Law, and setup a meeting here: https://www.lblaw.co.uk/services-for-you/family-law/non...
Feb 28, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, Beth Heath is back. This time she's looking at the maternity claims at SaTH (The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust) and the report which is due from Donna Ockenden. She also discusses the three reoccurring themes which are regularly presented to her. For all the resources and reference material from the...
Feb 23, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales. In this episode, solicitors Lucy Speed shares an insight into the work experience procedure at Lanyon Bowdler. Lucy plays an important role in the selection and interview process. Here's a link to the episode they referred to from season 1, with our newly qualified solicitors, Alex & Jordan: https://thelegallounge.podbean.co...
Feb 21, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 1
