Legal Services
LawShield UK offers your clients access to a 24/7 hour helpline and direction to a specialist in the area of law in which they seek advice. This includes specialists in property law, business law, wills and probate, as well as a special scheme for park home owners.
Property Services
In association with Conveyancing Solutions (www.conveyancingsolutions.co.uk), LawShield UK offers access to specialist conveyancing solicitors who will efficiently manage all the stages of a property transaction, at a fixed cost.
- Buying and selling freehold and leasehold properties
- Remortgaging
- Buy to Let
- Right to Buy
- Transfer of Equity and Deed of Gift
- Shared Ownership Scheme
- Tenancy arrangements
- Commercial property
- Buying and selling in Spain or France
- Specialist legal services for Park Homes
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Service to Business
The Challenges
Employment and Health and Safety legislation affects most businesses. Failure to make adequate provision can have serious consequences for employers. These may include:
- An inability to obtain employers liability insurance, or an onerous premium
- The need to defend proceedings instituted via the employment tribunals and the court.
- Fines for breaches of regulations resulting in unexpected costs and bad publicity.
- Low staff morale and poor productivity arising from a failure to address these issues.
Employers react in different ways to these problems.
Commercial legal expense insurance can be the answer but only for cases with a better than 50% chance of success.
The setting up of a human resources department can assist, but some companies do not have the time or funding for this. If a department is set up, it is frequently staffed by employees who do not have the necessary expertise and objectivity to deal with claims.
There is no easy answer, but doing nothing exposes your business to long-term problems.
The Solution
At LawShield we believe that "prevention is better than cure".
We have at our disposal lawyers and insurance professionals with many years of experience and expertise in contract, employment law and health and safety issues.
For a fixed price per annum based on your number of employees, turnover and history of claims we will arrange to:
- Attend your premises and assess the individual need of your business
- Draft your employment contracts to ensure they protect your interests and comply with current legislation
- Draft or amend your existing grievance and disciplinary procedure
- Review your existing risk assessment procedures, accident investigation reports and health surveillance records to ensure they comply with current legislation and will satisfy your insurers
- Review your work equipment, personal protective equipment and manual handling facilities as well as Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) regulations, Construction (Design and Management) requirements, or the lifting of plant and machinery provisions, or noise at work regulations as appropriate to your business
- Review your procedures for dealing with workplace claims and advise on improvements
- Ensure that appropriate reporting procedures are in place including safety officers, accident and HSE report documents
- Ensure that appropriate DSS reports and safety committee minutes are available
- Provide an annual review and drafting of new contracts as and when required for a fixed fee
- Deal with claims that arise for a fixed, discounted fee
The work will be overseen by the LawShield employment team and carried out by experienced employment lawyers from our extensive panel.
Our scheme will ensure that your systems are up to date and provide you with the best chance to successfully defend proceedings as well as satisfy Insurers and/or health and safety executives that you have the appropriate systems in place.
If you have an existing commercial or employment Law problem we can assist by nominating one of our experienced specialist panel law firms to deal with the matter at a discounted hourly rate.
We can advise on the following:
- Breach of contract or licence claims
- Employment proceedings including tribunal and court proceedings
- Criminal or Health and Safety prosecutions
- Property disputes
- Data Protection matters
- Motor Accidents
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Park Home Law
There are over 2,000 park home sites in Great Britain with over 114,000 people living in more than 69,000 households.
LawShield UK have arranged a unique legal expenses product for the benefit of park home tenants.
For a nominal premium, your client's can have peace of mind knowing that if a problem does occur, their rights are protected.
Benefits include:
£25,000 legal expenses fund to pursue a claim in connection with:
- Disputes over selling, buying or hiring any goods and services including home, park or holiday home, static caravan or chalet.
- Physical damage to the home
- Employment problems
- Personal injury sustained by the policyholder, spouse or children under the age of 21 at the policyholders address
And access to:
- Specialist Solicitors
- 24/7 legal help line
- Full claims service
- Discounted breakdown cover for motor vehicle, motorhome or touring caravan
We also offer access to specialist legal advice for the sale, purchase or assignment of park and holiday homes. This is a valuable service to clients who are rarely legally represented at this crucial time, our experts will advise on:
- The right to a written agreement under the Mobile Homes Act 1983
- Security of tenure
- Rights concerning the inheritance of the home
- Rights to give the home to a family member
- The right to sell on the park
- Right to light and access to the park home
- Road maintenance around the home
- Required distance between mobile/park homes
- Rights to adequate drainage
- Rights against removal of amenities
This unique service will protect all your park and holiday home clients, giving them complete protection in what is often an uncertain environment.