Fiona Pawsey, Author at Newnham & Jordan Solicitors

National Marriage Week

12/02/2016 by Fiona Pawsey in Family law

Marriage is a wonderful thing – it’s suggested that a happily married couple live longer! Marriage is said to be a lifelong contract between parties but what happens when things go wrong? If someone enters into a business contract they have legal advice. That advice looks at both the benefits […]

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Highway code Wednesday-Rule 227

10/02/2016 by Fiona Pawsey in Road Traffic Law

The Highway Code applies to England, Scotland and Wales and is essential reading for everyone. Rule 227 Wet weather. In wet weather, stopping distances will be at least double those required for stopping on dry roads (see ‘Typical stopping distances’) . This is because your tyres have less grip on […]

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Drink Driving at Christmas Time

14/12/2015 by Fiona Pawsey in Road Traffic Law

It’s almost Christmas again. And police forces up and down the country are already watching out vigilantly for motorists suspected of being over the legal limit. The annual Government anti-drink driving campaign has been launched warning of the consequences of a second drink. And in North Yorkshire a story has […]

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Health & Safety Update

01/12/2015 by Fiona Pawsey in Personal Injury

The consequences of problems with scaffolding were highlighted by a recent case heard in Chelmsford Magistrates Court. Three companies working on construction of residential apartments have been sentenced after workers narrowly escaped injury when a major piece of scaffolding collapsed. On 1st July 2014 a scaffold, forty metres in length […]

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Driving Tests-Cashback is Coming

19/11/2015 by Fiona Pawsey in Road Traffic Law

As internet shoppers many of us will be familiar with the idea of cashback on your shopping. It’s always a welcome extra benefit. Well cashback could soon be coming to driving tests fees also. The government have plans to pay cashback to learner drivers who pass their test at the […]

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Speeding in the headlines again

12/11/2015 by Fiona Pawsey in Road Traffic Law

Readers may have seen an item in the news in the past week about the plans in Bedfordshire to introduce a zero tolerance approach to speeding on that county’s motorway (the M1). For a long time motorists have been used to knowing that, so long as they are sensible, no […]

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