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15/11/2006 : Foot Anstey Raise Money For National Adoption Week And Children In Need
Staff at South West lawyers Foot Anstey raised over £1000 for National Adoption Week (6th -10th November) and Children in Need by staff caring for virtual babies. Over a week period 30 Foot Anstey staff, including members of the Management… »

01/11/2006 : Making Plymouth Great
Attracting Young People to Plymouth Bill Martin, Editor of the Evening Herald, challenged participants at the Making Plymouth Great Showcase on 14th November at the Royal William Yard to create displays that are thought provoking and innovative for… »

30/10/2006 : Foot Anstey Left Holding The Baby
Over 30 members of staff at South West lawyers Foot Anstey, including members of the Management Board, will take home a ‘baby’ and compete in a parenting competition to raise money for National Adoption Week (6th -10th November) and Children… »

30/10/2006 : More Than 1600 Somerset Young Cricketers Attend Autumn Trials
During Autumn half-term over 1600 boys and girls in five different age groups, from under 10 through to under 14 years old, attended trials throughout Somerset. The sessions were conducted at four centres, Taunton, Wells, Writhlington in North East Somerset… »

16/10/2006 : Local Insolvency Practitioners Sell To AIM Listed Company
Somerset based Neville Eckley & Co, licensed insolvency practitioners was sold to AIM listed Debts.co.uk plc last week. With 4 offices across South England, the firm offers businesses and individuals advice in tackling debt and insolvency.… »

09/10/2006 : Foot Anstey Open Second Office In Taunton
South west law firm Foot Anstey’s continued expansion means a second office in Taunton at Quad 3000, Blackbrook. They currently have offices in Wellington House, Taunton, Exeter and Plymouth. When Foot Anstey merged with Alms & Young… »

02/10/2006 : Taunton Company Continues Expansion
Taunton based G & L Consultancy, a leading asbestos consultancy, is opening a new office in Devon following its corporate restructuring. With 50 staff, 4 offices and a laboratory in the UK, the owner Julie Lewis bought out the company’s… »

02/10/2006 : Foot Anstey Support 'Making Plymouth Great' Showcase Exhibition 2006
Foot Anstey have signed up as Associated Partner to the ‘Making Plymouth Great’ Showcase which forms a significant part of Plymouth Enterprise Week, taking place between 13th and 17th November 2006. Enterprise Week is a national initiative… »

27/09/2006 : Foot Anstey Strengthens Their Planning Consultancy
Planning Consultant Neal Jillings has joined the expanding Planning Consultancy team at South West law firm, Foot Anstey after working in local and central government and the private sector. Jillings’ extensive experience includes working… »

27/09/2006 : Tony Jaffa Joins 100 Most Powerful List
The only lawyer to be listed in the 100 Most Powerful in Regional Newspaper Journalism is Tony Jaffa, Partner and Head of the Media team at South West legal firm Foot Anstey. According to the survey ‘One of the regional press’s best known… »

27/09/2006 : Foot Anstey Joins The Elite
Leading South West law firm Foot Anstey has become the first firm of solicitors outside London to be appointed as a Privy Council Agent. The Privy Council is the highest appeal Court for a number of Commonwealth countries and consists of UK Law Lords… »

27/09/2006 : Foot Anstey Supports Commonwealth Freedom Of The Press
Leading South West legal firm Foot Anstey has become the only UK legal practice based outside London to be appointed to the Commonwealth Press Union’s new legal support programme for journalists and newspapers in developing countries of the Commonwealth.… »

20/09/2006 : Legal 500 Rank Foot Anstey As Regional Heavyweight
The law world’s bible, the Legal 500, has ranked Foot Anstey as a South West ‘regional heavyweight’ in its annual review.  The firm has risen from 11th to 10th in size in the South West seven county table with its 156 fee earners… »

19/09/2006 : South West Firm Wins Business
A new partnership  between the public sector and the law sector has been heralded as a pioneering scheme by The Law Society and will involve law firms and councils from the South West. The partnership involves eighteen local authorities from… »

20/07/2006 : Warning: Smoking May Seriously Damage Your Wallet!
Employers could face £2500 fine and a criminal record if they do not take reasonable steps to stop smoking at their workplace according to the latest Government proposed guidelines to the new non smoking in public places law. Holly Cudbill… »

30/06/2006 : Domestic Violence And The World Cup
Most patriotic football fans are hoping England beat Ecuador in Sunday’s second round match but many women across the region are hoping they don’t - there is a darker side to our team moving forward in the World Cup. The number of domestic… »

29/06/2006 : Cornish Boutique Hotel Attracts National Buyer
Exeter, UK - A 17th century inn that had once been the haunt of smugglers has been sold by its owners Richard and Sheryl Young. Swallow Hotels, the fastest growing hotel group in the country, has acquired the nationally acclaimed boutique hotel, The… »

28/06/2006 : Association Of South West Mediators
The first meeting of a new organisation to promote the use of mediation as an alternative to expensive court cases will be on Tuesday 27th June in Plymouth. The new Association of South West Mediators is open to anyone interested in mediation, whether… »

27/06/2006 : A Valuable Business Event Not To Be Missed
‘Buying and Selling a Business’, a seminar on 27th June at Woodbury Park, Exeter, will look at issues surrounding the sale and purchase of a private company and current practices in the market place. HW Corporate Finance and HW Chartered… »

26/06/2006 : Foot Anstey Lawyers Win National Recognition
Taunton based Maggie Roberts, Mark Lewis and Andrew Hannam are just three of the 21 Foot Anstey lawyers listed as ‘Leaders in their Field’ by Chambers, the UK guide to the legal profession. Nine lawyers from Foot Anstey’s Plymouth… »

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