Bookings now being taken for ‘Building flexibility into your workforce’ seminar
Flexible working patterns are becoming increasingly common, but is your business making the most of the options available, and are you aware of the potential legal pitfalls? Our employment law…
Law firm gears up to help paint the town green to celebrate Cheltenham Festival of Cycling
Our lawyers have swapped pens for paintbrushes in support of the inaugural Cheltenham Festival of Cycling. As supporters of the council-organised festival, our firm is displaying a bicycle on the…
Willans have raised over £10,000 for The Nelson Trust
We are delighted to have raised in excess of £10,000 for our chosen charity of the year (2016-17), The Nelson Trust. On Tuesday 20 June our charity committee invited…
Supporting the next generation of lawyers
We have formed a partnership with the University of Gloucestershire and have pledged our support to its law school by helping to mentor and coach the next generation of lawyers.…
Willans supports the 20th Gloucestershire Business Awards
We are delighted to continue to lend our support to the Gloucestershire Business Awards, which is now in its 20th year of acknowledging local business talent. Our firm is sponsoring…
Celebrating 70 years of providing top-notch legal advice
We are celebrating our platinum anniversary as Willans turns 70 this month. The firm was established by Alec Willans in 1947. After wartime service in the Navy, he qualified and…
County business brains tested their wits at our charity quiz
We staged our fifth annual quiz night on Wednesday 22 March at Cheltenham’s Manor by the Lake, raising more than £2,800 for The Nelson Trust. Around 170 people took part,…
Avoid employment law pitfalls with our 2017 seminar series
We have just announced the dates of our latest series of seminars and workshops, designed to help businesses navigate the labyrinth of employment law in 2017. From demystifying the General…
Sell out performance of live trial prepares employers for handling tribunal claims
Over 50 employers and HR professionals attended a live mock employment tribunal last week to gain first-hand experience of the format of a tribunal hearing as well as to learn…
Willans are with you for the journey
It is hard to miss the fleet of smart, bright red coaches of Marchants around town, but, like many businesses, mechanic Roy Marchant founded the Cheltenham family business from small…
We’ve pledged our support to help make Gloucestershire a great place to do business
At the beginning of the year, GFirst LEP set a target to gather 1000 pledges from local business people, with the aim of showing what a great place Gloucestershire is…
From High Court to high notes, our candlelit carols in aid of charity
Festive singing was brought to Cheltenham College Chapel last Thursday when we partnered with our chosen charity of the year to stage a candlelit carol concert. More than 250 clients,…
Staff effort rewarded by Local Business Charity Awards
We were delighted to have been nominated for a third year as finalists in this year’s Local Business Charity Awards. The awards recognise the contribution made by Gloucestershire businesses and…
100 years combined experience in the corporate team with a new recruit
We have welcomed a fifth solicitor to our “first-class” corporate and commercial team this week, boosting the department to around 100 years combined experience in advising the full spectrum of…
Gloucestershire business scoops up our award for best digital company
We are delighted to announce that Maybe* has won the Digital Business of the Year Award sponsored by our firm at the Gloucestershire Business Awards this year. Paul Symes-Thompson, head…
Best results yet for Willans in the latest national legal guide
The 2016 edition of The Legal 500 recognises that Willans has had another successful year, giving us a top tier department ranking and including one of our partners in the…
Supporting younger talent
Pate’s Grammar School has launched a new house ready for the start of the school year with a little help from us. Pembroke House will join the school’s four other…
We are delighted to announce our new charity of the year
We are busily drawing up a new programme of fundraising events after choosing The Nelson Trust as our charity of the year. We are planning quizzes, raffles, concerts and competitions…
Willans supports prestigious business awards
We are delighted to be sponsoring the Gloucestershire Business Awards this year. The awards celebrate the best of the county’s businesses, discovering new talent and sharing and celebrating stories of…
Extending the powers of telecom providers
This is the legislation that governs the relationship between landowners and electronic communications providers that need access to land to install and maintain equipment such as mobile phone masts. The…
Lincing together to raise close to £11,000 to help beat cancer
Our lawyers and staff have raised in excess of £10,800 (and counting) for a local cancer charity by running a full programme of events. They organised a carol concert, business…
Handling grievances & conflict management event in September
Our employment law experts are hosting an event for employers and human resources professionals in September. The solicitors will be co-presenting with an HR specialist from consultancy Heather Resource Management…
High calibre appointment for our rural department
A well-known and established rural lawyer has joined our partnership. Robin Beckley is now the partner in charge of our agriculture & estates department. An Oxford graduate with an extensive…
Supporting women in business
We are delighted to support the Gloucestershire Women of the Year Awards, and in particular to be supporting the award for ‘Mentor of the Year’. These awards provide a great…
Investing in the future
There have been some significant promotions and our firm has retained its Lexcel accolade for the eighth year running. Our firm is under new leadership this month, welcoming a second…
Business brains ‘linc’ together to raise funds for charity at our quiz night
More than 200 people from county businesses tested their wits at our charity quiz last night. We welcomed 49 teams of four from businesses including Barclays, Brewin Dolphin, The Growth…
Top tips for protecting your business legally
Our employment and intellectual property lawyers will deliver one of the talks at the Growing Gloucestershire Conference, providing business owners and senior managers with tips on how to use the law to…
How to play Monopoly and win; using intellectual property to make money for your business
We will be speaking on the main stage at this year’s Gloucestershire Business Show. Our legal experts have teamed up with two leading professional services firms; Vicki Strachan, partner, patent…
Willans handles high-profile deal for Space Catering (UK) Ltd
We recently completed a complex deal for the selling shareholders of Space Catering (UK) Ltd who have sold a controlling stake in the company to leading catering equipment supplier Nisbets…
The complexities of implied easements unravelled
When a landowner sells part of his land the common law is prepared to imply easements in favour of the seller and the buyer in certain circumstances, with the court…
Be careful what you give away
A recent case has highlighted how developers need to be cautious when creating multi-use developments. In particular, they need to think very carefully about what rights each part of the…
Willans supports ‘Growing Gloucestershire’ initiative
We are co-sponsors of this year’s Growing Gloucestershire Conference, which is taking place on 29 June at The Growth Hub at the University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester. The conference attracts around 200…
Taking bookings for April’s Make a Will Month in aid of medical charity Cobalt
Making a will can offer peace of mind, bring any outstanding affairs into order, offer potential inheritance tax benefits and provide a vital source of income from any legacies left…
Willans helps national charity acquire new out-of-town ‘superstore’ in Cheltenham’s Tewkesbury Road
We continue to act in the shop expansion of national charity Sue Ryder, which today opens a 4,200 sq ft superstore on Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham. Sue Ryder is a…
New tax year, new employment laws - bookings now being taken for March briefings
Along with the new tax year in April come the latest changes in employment law. In March, we are hosting our popular hour-long general employment law update breakfast seminars to…
Lawyers back Pate’s Grammar
We are delighted to be supporting Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham by sponsoring their new house. Over the next few years, the school will increase student numbers and its current…