Durham Legal News (United Kingdom)

In the UK and many other countries with budget deficits, income tax is rising and the point at which employees pay higher rates is getting lower. This has led to a flood of requests to be paid less and to receive alternative benefits.

Latimer Hinks Solicitors has welcomed its latest newly-qualified solicitor. Nadine Sweeney, who has been with the firm for the last two years as a trainee, has now qualified as a solicitor.

Solicitors with Latimer Hinks have received national recognition for a range of their work from two of the UK’s most influential legal guides.

Latimer Hinks partner Judith Middleton, a leading North East family law expert, is warning the trend for personalising wedding ceremonies could leave couples not being legally wed.

A Partner at Darlington law firm, Latimer Hinks, has been appointed to a prestigious historic role. Marketing Partner Anne Elliott has been sworn in as the new Under-Sheriff of County Durham.

Businesses need to cope with the fact that difficult economic times bring out the best and the worst in many people - including their employees – according to Nick Poole, partner at Latimer Hinks Solicitors

The recent spate of insolvencies involving high profile media figures just goes to show that even celebrities are not immune to the recession, says Mark Gardner, insolvency and debt recovery expert at Latimer Hinks Solicitors.