We were proud headline sponsors at the Social Care Wales Accolades 2024 this week, recognising and celebrating excellence in social care and childcare.

Our head of Regulatory, Martin Jones gave the opening address at the ceremony.

🎉 Congratulations to all the winners!

📆 April is #LimbLoss and #LimbDifference Awareness Month.

💬 Carlos Land, Senior Associate in our Serious Injuries Team, discusses pursuing claims involving amputations and the firm's involvement with the charity Limbless Association

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3vWQ8Ak

🚦 Solicitors from our Serious Injury team spoke to local nursery and primary schools in #Manchester to mark Brake, the road safety charity's #BeepBeepDay all about road safety.

🚗 The children learned how to cross a road safely and spotting dangers on the road.

🙌 We are pleased to announce that we are among the finalists of the 'Property Lawyer of the Year' at Insider Media's Wales Property Awards 2024.

✨ We're looking forward to seeing everyone at the awards in June, and we wish all the other finalists the best of luck.

🌎 To mark #EarthDay , we're reflecting on some of the positive steps we've taken so far:

✅ We've attained the Carbon Neutral International Standard.
✅ Continued to reduce our emissions by 5% annually.
✅ Committed to reducing waste and effective recycling at all our offices.

🛣️ Louise Gardner, Senior Associate in our Serious Injury team, featured on BBC Radio 4 'AntiSocial with Adam Fleming' show today.

🚴 The show focused on cyclists, their experiences on our roads and rules under the Highway Code.

🔊 Listen back here: bbc.in/49EAIhD

Partners Matthew Stevens and Iwan Jenkins are hosting a webinar to explore the highly anticipated JCT 2024 and what it means for you and your contracts.

📆 Date: 25 April

🕙 Time: 9.30 – 10:30am

💰 Cost: Free

📍 Online

Register here 🔗 bit.ly/4aBy2Tb

If you or a family member worked at the Caerphilly Tar Plant, you may be entitled to compensation due to exposure to hazardous working conditions.

Come to our free drop-in clinic for an initial consultation to learn about your legal options.

🔗 bit.ly/3Q5wYyY

💟 We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with PAPYRUS after our #Manchester employees voted to partner with the charity for 2024.

Recognising the importance of PAPYRUS' work, we're excited to support this worthy cause.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4cWnqjy

📣 We've advised a syndicate of business angels and Wales Angel Co-Investment Fund on its latest investment.

💰 They've jointly invested in Prosper, an investment and pension provider, enabling it to establish a back office in #Cardiff .

🔗 bit.ly/3xJrSSs

🚜 'I was promised the family farm!'🚜

Disputes within farming families over ownership of the family farm are unfortunately not uncommon.

🔍 Sarah O'Grady in our Private Wealth Disputes team takes a closer look at proprietary estoppel...

🔗 bit.ly/3JgnxsM

🙌 We are delighted to be in partnership with GlobalWelsh for their 'Connect to London: Excellence in Welsh Sport & Business' networking event next week.

The event will bring together Welsh professionals who want to build their London network.

🔗 bit.ly/3TRuCov

📣 Deal news 📣

🏘️ We're pleased to have advised United Welsh on the multimillion-pound acquisition of the former Windsor Collier site in #Caerphilly , marking a signification step forward in bringing new and affordable housing to the area.

More 🔗 bit.ly/43WvA7s

🏅 Congratulations and good luck to the nominees for the Most Influential Campaign at the Welsh Sports Association 🇺🇦 Sports Industry Awards 2024!

🔹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 SQUASH WALES
🔹 Swim Wales
🔹 Weightlifting Wales

We're looking forward to seeing everyone in June!

🙌 We are excited to announce ourselves as a Thought Leader at Peloton's Rail Cymru Conference 2024 next week.

🗨️ Senior Associate Eleanor Bamber from the Employment team will be speaking at the event.

🔗 Find out more on our specialist team: bit.ly/3VR3E2U

Senior Associate Erich Kurtz appeared on BBC Morning Live to talk about the distressing situation homeowners are finding themselves in following the collapse of law firm, SSB Law.

📺 Watch the coverage: bit.ly/3VPMZg1

✍️ Make an enquiry: bit.ly/3u2jYSZ

🐶 Our Banking team was unleashed down at Cardiff Dogs Home recently.

💟 As a team of animal lovers, they were keen to use one of the two CSR days all Hugh James staff receive, to support a charity that's important to them.

🐾 A paw-some time was had by all!

🍃 Partner and Head of our Commercial team, Aled Walters, looks at the considerations that should be taken when incorporating net zero into commercial agreements.

🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/49nnKVq

⬆️ We were pleased to sponsor a recent Wales Scaling Up Roundtable event, hosted by Insider Media.

📈 Aled Walters, Head of our Commercial team, and Matthew Evans, Head of Private Wealth, took part in discussing teamwork, funding and routes to growth.

🔗 bit.ly/3PMgfAw

💻 Later this month we’re holding a webinar on the recent employment law update. This session will cover changes in leave, visa rules and more.

📆 Date: Thursday 18 April
🕙 Time: 12 - 1pm
💰 Cost: Free
📍 Online

Register here🔗 bit.ly/4a9bKZ3