Business Interruption Insurance: Are you covered?
May 13th 2020Mark Aspin Director and Head of Dispute Resolution provides useful information on business interruption insurance. As some areas of commerce – at least tentatively – look to restarting operations over the coming weeks, those businesses which have been totally closed over the past weeks will be looking forward to seeing an income stream restarting. Whilst income has been reduced (or stopped) and places of work closed, many businesses have been…
Planning for the Future: A practical checklist for SMEs preparing to return to work
May 12th 2020Cartmells Shepherd’s Managing Director Peter Stafford provides some good advice and a helpful checklist for SMEs. A useful reminder of the key things that need to be in place to get your business running efficiently and effectively; look after your people and your customers; and move your business forward. Structured around the four pillars of: Operations & technology Finance & resourcing People Marketing & communications View checklist here UK200GroupEmergenceChecklist -…
Easing of Lockdown – UK200Group SME Poll
May 11th 2020UK200 Group Poll: What are your biggest challenges as we see an easing of lockdown? There remains quite some confusion following the Prime Ministers broadcast last night but it is likely we will start to see an easing of the lockdown restrictions in the coming weeks, so long as the virus is kept under control. This will have implications for SME businesses (and particularly those in Cumbria and Northumberland that…
How have you adapted to working from home during lockdown?
May 7th 2020Jonathan Carroll Director & Head of Property talks about how he has adapted during lockdown. Where are you working from now? Home, like most office workers, in my little office by the front door. I’ve got a decent desk and chair, and there’s not too bad a view over the fields, really, with the lapwings flopping about. Being able to walk out onto the garden in the sunshine is a…
Work experience led graduate to achieve her dreams with top legal firm
May 1st 2020A HISTORY graduate has achieved her dream of qualifying as a solicitor at a leading legal firm after being inspired by her time with the company while on work experience. Taylor Chanter 27, was determined to land a job at Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors following a brief internship with the firm almost four years ago. After two years working with the top legal firm, during which she has thrown herself into…
Shops and SMEs to be protected against aggressive rent collection
April 29th 2020Stephanie Johnson Associate Solicitor provides an update. Shops and small businesses will be protected from aggressive rent collection during the Covid-19 emergency. Instead, Business Secretary Alok Sharma says they will be asked to pay what they can over the next two months. Mr Sharma says most landlords and tenants are working well together to reach agreements on debt obligations, but some landlords have been putting tenants under undue pressure by…
Cumbrian firm lobbies government for more support for SMEs as survey reveals more than 30% face permanent closure
April 29th 2020A LEADING Cumbria legal firm is backing calls for the government to do more to help small and medium sized businesses with more than 30 per cent at risk of going out of business if the COVID-19 lockdown continues. New research conducted by the UK200Group an organisation which represents the country’s leading law and accountancy firms, shows that more than 500,000 people in the North West are at risk of…
How have you adapted to working from home during lockdown?
April 28th 2020Terri Hope Marketing Manager talks about how she is coping during lockdown. Where are you working from now? Home. The first week I was sat at the breakfast bar but my partner has now made me a desk so I can sit in our lounge and look out of the window. It is a much nicer view! What has been most difficult about working remotely? Being separated from my colleagues,…
Landlord and Tenant repossessions and trespassers during COVID-19
April 27th 2020Mark Aspin Director and Head of Dispute Resolution provides an update As we have previously reported, as a result of the Coronavirus Act and changes to the court rules, tenants in both commercial and residential properties have been given extra protection to avoid eviction during government restrictions and the coronavirus pandemic. The courts have now, however, modified the general stay on possession proceedings that was granted recently and added the…
Here to give you peace of mind during these worrying times
April 27th 2020Reassuring message from our Marketing Director Carol Fish We are here for you throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to help give you peace of mind in these worrying times. With lockdown extended as anticipated, we all continue to adapt to a different way of life. As a business Cartmell Shepherd has had to adapt too – and quickly – in order to continue to meet our clients’ needs and to help…
