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Danger of Using Will Writers
Panorama Highlights Dangers of Using Will Writers In this week’s Panorama programme, presenter Vivian White highlig...

Nigel Priestley is made a Solicitor-Advocate
Nigel Priestley, Senior partner at Ridley and Hall has been granted the award of the Higher Courts Qualification in Civil cases. H...

Fantastic effort in the Leeds 10k
The Jane Tomlinson Appeal was set up by a very determined Yorkshire woman to help children's and cancer charities across Yorkshire...

Family Rights Group battle the heat for charity
Nigel Priestley, Senior Partner of Ridley & Hall Solicitors in Huddersfield, completed a gruelling London 10k run last Sunday ...

Victory for Christian foster mother struck off after Muslim girl converts
Victory for Christian foster mother struck off after Muslim girl converts A foster mother with 10 years' experience has won he...

Will Aid
IT’S OFFICIAL – HUDDERSFIELD PEOPLE ARE THE MOST GENEROUS! Huddersfield based Ridley and Hall solicitors have...

Breaking news on HIPs!
Following the Government's recent announcement Home Information Packs have been suspended with effect from 21st May 2010. Any pro...

Grandmother wins 5 year battle with Kent County Council
A GRANDMOTHER who battled for five years with Kent County Council to be paid the same rate as a foster carer for looking after h...

Kent council made to pay
KENT MADE TO PAY AS LOST CHILDREN FINALLY FIND A HOME A Kent family who came to the rescue of a sister and brother have had...

Kinship Carers Welcome Budget News
The charity Family Rights Group today hailed the Chancellor's announcement to tackle discrimination in the benefits system which a...

Grandparent Carer Smashes Key Kirklees Policy
GRANDPARENT CARER SMASHES KEY KIRKLEES POLICY After a 4 year battle, a Huddersfield’s Grandmother’s court action has ...

Kinship Care case
COUNCIL ACCEPTS DEFEAT DAYS BEFORE HIGH COURT HEARING in Kinship Care case. Oldham Council has accepted defeat over a legal chall...

Battling Grandma wins Court fight for support
Bradford Council is facing a double financial whammy after an order was made in the Administrative Court today in Leeds following ...

Will Warning for Gay Couples
SAME SEX ISSUES ARISING OUT OF CONTENTIOUS PROBATE Peter Ikin was a successful executive in the music industry who died on 12th N...

Changes to legal costs for Personal Injury Claims
Huddersfield lawyer says proposed changes to civil legal costs could affect those injured CONCERNS have been raised about changes...

Doncaster Children's Services
Yet another report criticising Doncaster's Children's Services as grieving parents forced to end negligence claim The parents o...

Local Care Home Neglect
HUSBAND ANGRY ABOUT LOCAL CARE HOME NEGLECT A husband has won damages for his wife over the care she received at a private care...

Warren Jobling's parents respond to the Serious Case Review published by Doncaster County Council
This morning the Serious Case Review (SCR) into the death of 7 year old Warren Jobling was published by Doncaster’s Safeguar...

Hair dye left Paddock girl blind and swollen
WARNING ABOUT HAIR COLOURING IN SALONS On 29th April 2004, 16 year old Charlotte Gilchrist went to her local hair salon in Hudder...

Solicitors for the Elderly
SUE CASH AND JILL WADDINGTON OF RIDLEY & HALL BECOME MEMBERS OF SOLICITORS FOR THE ELDERLY Sue Cash, head of the priv...

Bradford Council warned
Bradford Council warned about costs as child takes first step to make them pay. Bradford Council is facing a double whammy after ...

Local Solicitors attend National Award Ceremony
Huddersfield solicitor, Sarah Young, Managing Partner of Ridley and Hall, pictured with Senior Partner Nigel Priestley, attended t...

New Partners for Ridley and Hall
Huddersfield law firm Ridley and Hall have promoted three of their solicitors to partners. On 1st October James Cook, Meena Kumari...

Solicitor fights for "underpaid" gran
Huddersfield Solicitor Nigel Priestley is fighting for a grandmother caring for her teenage grandaughter. Nigel Priestley of Ridl...

Sarah Young receives national Managing Partner's award
ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN SOLICITORS ANNOUNCE AWARD WINNERS Celebrating women solicitors in business The Association of Women Solicit...

Senior Solicitor joins national legal group
Sue Cash head of the private client department at Ridley and Hall has satisfied the rigorous requirements to join the specialist n...

Family Feud Settlement has lessons for all.
Local Solicitors Ridley and Hall have completed the final steps in a settlement of a family fight over a Will. Two sisters have su...

De -registered Foster Carer to challenge Kirklees
DE-REGISTERED FOSTER CARER TO CHALLENGE KIRKLEES AFTER OVER PAYMENT A Kirklees Foster Carer who has been de-registered af...

Doncaster Child Care service failures - Sarah Young on Newsnight
The story can be viewed on the BBC iPlayer by clicking this link Council was warned 'children would die' Council bosses in ...

Foster mother 'struck off' after Muslim girl converts
A foster mother has been struck off by a council after a teenage Muslim girl in her care became a Christian. The carer, who ha...

Angry mother battling for answers
Andrea Jobling is an angry woman who wants answers. Her son, Warren died aged 7 on 12th April 2008. He is one of the 7 children wh...

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal operates to new Regulations.
New rules now operate in matters concerning the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. From Monday 3rd November, new ...

Highly Commended Solicitor of the Year Award for Nigel Priestley
Nigel Priestley , Senior Partner at Ridley & Hall Solicitors has received the Highly Commended Award in the Solicitor Of ...

Double Excellence Award nominations for Ridley & Hall
Ridley & Hall have been shortlisted in two categories for the national Law Society Excellence Awards 2008. Amongst record num...

Ridley & Hall win top law firm award!
For the second time in three years, Ridley & Hall have won the Specialist Law Firm Award at the prestigious 2008 Yor...

Widows and widowers to get cash increase!
It can be difficult to find the time to make a will, and all too often, people die without one. But dying without a will can leave...

Nigel Priestley on BBC Radio 4 MoneyBox kinship care feature
Nigel Priestley was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s MoneyBox programme with Paul Lewis following the successful challenge to tw...

blood ties - kinship care article from the guardian april 2008 by robert bullard
This article appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday April 02 2008 on p7 of the Society news & features section. http://www.gua...

local firm goes national
With the Government pressing for more children to be adopted, Nigel Priestley Senior Partner and James Wilson, Community Care Lawy...

substandard care at kirklees care home
A Kirklees local authority care home has agreed to an out of court settlement including compensation and legal fees. An independen...

Fantastic effort in the Leeds 10k
The Jane Tomlinson Appeal was set up by a very determined Yorkshire woman to help children's and cancer charities across Yorkshire...

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