Government legislation affects almost every aspect of our lives, and decisions about our finances are often based on new rules that we didn’t anticipate when starting to invest or build pensions pots or plan for retirement.

A North Wales criminal lawyer has started the countdown to a journey that will take her north to join a 60,000-strong throng of runners aiming to complete 13.1 miles for charity on 7^th September.

Elzbeth Kenny, a Senior Solicitor with Wrexham based law firm, GHP Legal, who modestly describes herself as ‘not the fittest’, will be stepping out of her comfort zone to participate in the A J Bell Great North Run 2025 in support of a local hospice.

A Wrexham father of two who despite suffering from arthritis is challenging himself to do 15,000 steps a day in aid of charity during August is urging others to do the same or sponsor him.

Ant Watkin, who works in the Debt Recovery department at local law firm GHP Legal, ran a total of 60 miles during the month of August last year in a similar challenge, raising more than £450 for Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). 

Megan Currie, a dedicated secretary in the Family department at Oswestry law firm, GHP Legal, is currently in full training mode as she prepares for the high profile Run to Anfield on Saturday 2^nd August, when she will be raising funds for the LFC Foundation.

GHP Legal is pleased to announce that Mandy Towers, a highly experienced conveyancing and probate executive based in the firm’s Llangollen office, has been granted Practice Rights as a CILEx Conveyancing Practitioner.

The partners of a law firm with offices in Wrexham, Oswestry and Llangollen celebrated the firm’s 55^th anniversary on Friday 11^th July by inviting staff and former partners to join them for afternoon tea followed by an evening river cruise.

How many medical intervention decisions are based on statistics rather than on the evidence presented by patients who know their own bodies? Those whose lives have been cut short because of an initial misdiagnosis would say ‘too many’.

So why are there so many missed opportunities for early intervention, and what can victims do to get justice?

A year after holding its inaugural event in May last year, Wrexham Young Professionals was sponsored by one of the region’s largest law firms at its 29 May 2025 meeting.

Based in Grosvenor Road, just across the road from Coleg Cambria, sponsor GHP Legal has a long history of supporting the local colleges and universities. Offering training opportunities for aspiring young solicitors, the firm initiated the Gwilym Hughes Memorial prize with Wrexham University Law department.

Robert Williams, who became an equity partner in 2002 and was head of the firm’s Civil Litigation, Personal Injury and Dispute Resolution departments, stepped down to become a Consultant working three days a week, following his appointment as 2025-26 President of Cheshire and North Wales Law Society earlier this month.

Taking Robert’s place as an equity partner is Sarah Talbot, who joined GHP Legal’s litigation team as a Senior Solicitor in 2022. Flintshire raised Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 2013 after studying Law at Liverpool John Moores University part-time whilst raising her children.

Emma Simoes and Euros Jones, both partners of GHP Legal, can now exercise rights of audience in all criminal proceedings in the higher courts and judicial review proceedings arising from any criminal cause. This applies to all courts in England and Wales, including Crown Court, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.