GHP Legal were delighted to attend the Chester & North Wales Annual Dinner, held on 13 March 2026 at Chester Zoo. A wonderful evening spent connecting with colleagues and celebrating the strength of the local business community.

Men often say they feel ‘cheated’ when a Court awards a portion of their pension pot to their estranged/ex-wife through a Pension Sharing Order. Yet there is good reason why such Orders are made - due to social circumstances, men generally accumulate larger pension pots than their spouses.

My husband sadly ended his own life in 2023, and I am still suffering from the effects of that, drinking heavily every night to try and blank it out. Now I am worried my young daughter will be taken into care as a neighbour has called social services and said I was unfit to look after her. What should I do?

Everything you search on for information these days seems to offer an AI solution. The information and the solutions appear instantly, and they are free. So, if it is quicker and cheaper to use AI, why should I use a solicitor?

One of the region’s leading law firms announced this week that it has once more signed as the main sponsor for an annual country park event to raise funds for Nightingale House Hospice.

GHP Legal, known for its support of local charitable sporting events, will again sponsor the medals for the Nightingale House Alyn Waters 5k and 10k Run due to take place on Saturday 18^th April 2026.

I heard in the news the government is going to cap Ground Rents. I bought a house on a new development six years ago and pay an annual “maintenance” fee to a management company. I’ve never really understood why I pay this, as my house is freehold. The developer said the fee would be minimal, which it was at first, but it has since increased several times. Will the new Ground Rent cap mean my charges are reduced?

Our daughter and her partner have been living together for over six years but due to having to pay London rents, and property prices rising, they have never managed to save enough for the deposit to buy a house. Now property prices in London appear to be coming down, so it would seem like a good time to buy and we are therefore considering giving them the deposit. What can we do to ensure the gift would be protected in our daughter’s favour if they should ever split up?

An employee in his early 60s is threatening us with an employment tribunal for age discrimination because he says we are asking him to do physical work that has become too difficult due to age-related health problems (i.e. osteoarthritis). Whilst we feel sorry for him, he has done the same job for seventeen years and we don’t have any other, less physical work we can offer him. He asked us to make him redundant but there are no grounds for that as the job very much still exists. So now the tribunal threat, which he clearly believes will provide a potential payout to enable him to retire early under the protection of employment rights legislation. What is our best approach?

Oswestry law firm GHP Legal has bolstered its dedicated Property department at 21 The Cross with the appointment of a new Senior Solicitor.

Janet Hawley joined the firm in January 2026, reflecting the firm’s continued growth and increase in conveyancing market share across the region.

I want to take my children on a foreign holiday this summer with my new wife, but their mother is refusing to agree to it. She has their passports and says she will not hand them over to me. The children, who are now teenagers, want to come on holiday with me and my daughter has suggested they could take the passports without their mum knowing. However, I don’t want to encourage them to be deceitful? What should I do?