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National law firm Devonshires has merged its clinical negligence department with pioneering barrister-led firm PI Law Direct to create Devonshires Claims, a specialist clinical negligence and personal injury practice.

The CMA has written to Countryside and Taylor Wimpey outlining its specific concerns that their use of lease terms that double the ground rent every 10 or 15 years breaks consumer protection law.

After a protracted battle between the Commons and the Lords over whether building owners should be permitted to pass the cost of remediating unsafe cladding onto leaseholders, the Fire Safety Bill passed through Parliament yesterday without amendment from the Lords.

Katie Fung, who previously worked at Devonshires, has returned to the firm as a Partner to strengthen our growing Real Estate and Projects practice.

Applications are now open for organisations to become strategic partners of Homes England. Organisations that are interested in applying have until noon on 18 May 2021 to submit their proposal online.

MHCLG has now published their guidance for the new housing possession mediation service, announced earlier this year.

We are delighted to be rewarded for our environmental efforts, winning 4 awards at the 2021 Clean City Awards.

We are delighted to announce that we have promoted two lawyers to partner, taking the total number of partners at the firm to 43.

We welcome real estate specialist Amy Lees to our growing team in Leeds.

On Monday 22 March, we kicked-off our ‘Devonshires End to End Cycle Challenge’ to raise funds for our four partner charities.

Partner Stephen Netherway features in Insurance Day, discussing how Brexit has changed the way insurers can seek legal redress in the courts when dealing with parties in EU member states.

On Thursday 4 March, Partner Hannah Langford attended and spoke at the ‘Decarbonising the North West | The route to net zero’ virtual event.