Rarely a week passes these days without a retailer reporting a theft, or even worse reporting that a member of staff has been subjected to violence, threats or abuse.

If you are one of those retailers you will know only too well how hard it is to fulfil your legal obligation as an employer, to ensure the safety of your staff. But how proactive are you in developing strategies to prevent and manage violent incidents and create a safer workplace for staff?

I am getting old, have no contact with family and am having sleepless nights about what will happen to me if I get Alzheimer’s. Who will look after me, organize my funeral, make sure I am legally sorted? I really don’t know what to do. Can you advise me, please?

An Oswestry solicitor is celebrating 40 years as an equity partner at the same time as the firm he now heads up celebrates its 55^th year.

Richard Lloyd is the current Senior Partner of GHP Legal. His legal career began in 1980 when he accepted a trainee position at a firm of solicitors in Aberystwyth.  In early 1983 he joined AW Brown & Co in Oswestry as an assistant solicitor and two years later became an equity partner with Alan Brown.

Under perfect blue skies the team, entered by Wrexham based law firm GHP Legal, was led by Robert Williams. A partner of the well-known local law firm which was one of the event’s main sponsors, Local Law Society President, Robert, was joined by Mark Evans the incoming national Law Society President and founder of the Legal Runner network.  District Judge Natalie Pritchard, a former partner of the firm, was also there.

My brother says I should withhold my rent until the landlord’s sorted it, but I’m worried I’ll get evicted and there is so little rental property available round here. What should I do?