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Oliver Smedley

Partner

Bristol
Oliver is a Partner and leads our Social Housing Development Team, specialising in development work for Registered Providers.
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Petra Hantakova

Senior Associate

Birmingham
Petra Hantakova is a Senior Associate in Clarke Willmott’s Birmingham commercial property team with particular experience in investment and development.
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Philip Edwards

Partner

Birmingham
Philip Edwards is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors’ Birmingham Serious Injury team specialising in amputation, spinal cord injury.
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Philip Thompson

Partner

Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff
Phil has extensive experience in immediate and strategic land development and joint venture arrangements between housebuilders.
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Ruth Hartnell-Thorne

Partner

Bristol
Ruth Hartnell-Thorne is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s Bristol Insolvency team specialising in personal bankruptcy and corporate insolvency.
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Sarah MacLarty

Senior Associate

Bristol and London
Sarah is an experienced Senior Associate in the Employment team and provides practical and commercial advice to both employers and employees.
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Search and seizure orders – The supervising solicitor’s perspective

Commercial litigation and disputes
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A search and seizure order allows one party in a dispute to enter another party’s premise (the respondent) to search for, copy, and retain evidence.

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Snakes and Ladders – Delays with the HRB Gateways 

Construction
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The construction industry is currently grappling with significant delays in the approval process for Higher-Risk Buildings (“HRBs”), primarily caused at Gateways 2 and 3 of the Building Safety Act (“BSA”).

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So you think you are paying the national minimum wage?

Employment
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We know from the HMRC’s annual reporting that even the most well-known employers fail to pay some of their staff the National Minimum Wage. Could you unwittingly be one of them and how can you avoid a nasty surprise if HMRC comes knocking?

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Sonal Crocker

Senior Associate

Bristol
Sonal Crocker is a Senior Associate in Clarke Willmott’s Bristol Restructuring & Insolvency team with specialist experience in actions against directors.
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Stephanie Slinn

Partner

Birmingham
Stephanie Slinn is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors’ Birmingham Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency team.
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