Dale&Co

Dale & Co Legal Team

 

Richard Dale, Solicitor Director, Business Law 

Richard Dale, B.A. (Hons.) Solicitor Director

rdale@dale-law.co.uk

Richard has worked in civil and criminal matters since 1977. He has a practical attitude to the law and is an experienced and effective negotiator. He acts in your interests and employs energetic, strategic thinking and commercial acumen to work for you. He has gathered a first-class team which works to the same ethos.


Georgia Corby, LL.B. (Hons.) Solicitor Director

gcorby@dale-law.co.uk

Georgia has a broad legal knowledge. She is thorough and compassionate; she deals with divorce, civil partnership dissolution, co-habitation, finances and children's matters as head of the Family Law department. She is also head of the Wills and Probate Department. Georgia is a member of Resolution.


The Divorce & Family Law Team

Georgia Corby, Divorce and Family Law Solicitor Jo-Anna Brown, Divorce and Family Law Legal Executive Jan Thorngate, Legal Secretary - Matrimonial Chris Bagley, Divorce and Family Law Legal Secretary
Georgia Corby
LL.B Hons
Solicitor Director
gcorby@dale-law.co.uk
Jo-Anna Glynn
F.Inst.L.Ex
Family Law Legal Executive
jglynn@dale-law.co.uk
Jan Thorngate
 
Family Law Legal Secretary
jthorngate@dale-law.co.uk
Chris Bagley
 
Family Law Legal Secretary
cbagley@dale-law.co.uk









The Conveyancing Team

Nicola Welbourn, Conveyancing Solicitor Laura-Beth Creasey, Conveyancing Secretary Felicity Lacey Conveyancing at Dale and Co
Nicola Welbourn
BA Hons
Solicitor
nwelbourn@dale-law.co.uk
Laura-Beth Creasey

Conveyancing Secretary
lcreasey@dale-law.co.uk
Felicity Lacey

Conveyancing Assistant
flacey@dale-law.co.uk
       
       

The Business Law & Litigation Team

Richard Dale, Solicitor, Director Helen Simpson, Legal Assistant, Debt Recovery Rory Silkin, Consultant Jennifer Kitching Litigation
Richard Dale
BA Hons
Solicitor, Director
rdale@dale-law.co.uk
Helen Simpson
 
Legal Assistant & Debt Recovery
hsimpson@dale-law.co.uk
Rory Silkin
M.A. (Cantab) B.Sc
Consultant
rsilkin@dale-law.co.uk
Jennifer Kitching
 LL.B Hons
Litigation Assistant
jkitching@dale-law.co.uk

The Wills & Probate Team

Georgia Corby, Head of Department Justine Durham, Wills & Probate Legal Executive Angela Lowther, Probate Assistant
Georgia Corby
LL.B Hons.
Head of Department
gcorby@dale-law.co.uk
Justine Hunt
F.Inst.L.Ex
Wills & Probate Legal Executive
jhunt@dale-law.co.uk
Angela Crockley
 
Probate Assistant
alowther@dale-law.co.uk

The Accounts & Administration Team

Ian Potter, Practice Manager  
Ian Potter
 
Practice Manager
ipotter@dale-law.co.uk
Maria Costello
 
Reception
mainreception@dale-law.co.uk

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Additional Services

  • Corporate Law

  • Acquisitions and Disposals
  • Management buy-outs
  • Advice on Banking and Security Documents
  • Group re-organisations
  • De-mergers/shareholder agreements/ new ventures/ own share purchases
  • LLPs
  • Property joint ventures
  • Insolvency
  • Advice on company law and procedure
  • Defending Commercial Debts
  • Commercial Law & Intellectual Property

  • Terms and conditions
  • Distribution/agency agreements
  • Data protection
  • Confidentiality and database rights
  • Online trading
  • Trade marks, copyright, patents and designs
  • Application to register
  • Licensing/exploitation/protection and enforcement of IP rights
  • Real Estate (Commercial Property)

  • Development
  • Letting
  • Acquisition and disposal
  • Planning
  • Property funding and finance
  • Agriculture

  • Sale and purchase of farmland
  • Tenancies
  • Single payment entitlements
  • Structuring the business entity
  • Tax and trust planning
  • Protecting assets
  • Construction

  • Preparation of all construction related documentation including building contracts
  • Preparation of all construction related documentation including professional appointments
  • Preparation of all construction related documentation including warranties
  • Agreements for lease and development agreements
  • PFI schemes and EU procurement law
  • Dispute resolution arising from construction matters
  • Property Litigation

  • Rights of way
  • Boundary disputes
  • Rent claims S.146 Notices
  • Commercial Landlord/Tenant disputes
  • Lease renewals under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
  • Dilapidation claims
  • Rent reviews together with real property disputes
  • Litigation and dispute resolution

  • Commercial contract
  • Shareholder disputes
  • Upholding restrictive covenants
  • Injunctions
  • International disputes
  • Product recall
  • Professional negligence
  • Competition disputes
  • Finance - recoveries
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy

  • Bankruptcy
  • Individual voluntary arrangements
  • Liquidations
  • Administrations
  • Company voluntary arrangements
  • Corporate Investigation and Governance

  • H&S
  • OFT
  • Environment agency
  • Food standards
  • Financial services
  • Police - Fraud/Money laundering
  • Road traffic
  • Commercial fisheries
  • Internal investigations
  • Risk management
  • Trading standards
  • Employment

  • Contentious and Non-contentious
  • Contracts of employment
  • Terms and conditions
  • Disciplinary and grievance procedures
  • Dismissals/Redundancies
  • Restructuring
  • Discrimination (sex, disability, age, etc)
  • TUPE (Money on account for employees)
  • Health & Safety

  • Health & safety audits
  • Safe systems of work
  • Health & safety policies and manuals
  • Health & safety training
  • Risk assessment - general, work transport, fire etc.
  • New business/commercial property purchases, audit H&S
  • Machinery process safety & EHSR
  • Contractor management
  • Business Immigration

  • Business Immigration
  • Member of Highly Skilled Migrant programme for work permits - outside the EU
  • Shipping & Transport

  • Wet and dry
  • Transport of goods
  • Defendant personal injury
  • Accidents on vessels
  • Accidents between vessels
  • Carriage of goods by road, rail, sea, air
  • Buying, selling, financing vessels including yachts
  • Marine environmental issues
  • Insurance

  • Claims against insurance companies where the company alleges it is entitled to avoid paying a claim
  • Insurance brokers obligations and liabilities
  • Tax Trust Wills Probate

  • Wills and probate
  • Older client work
  • Inheritance tax planning
  • Trusts
  • Personal injury trusts
  • Court of Protection
  • Protecting family assets
  • Contentious probate

  • Disputes under inheritance (Provisions for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
  • Contentious Wills & Trusts
  • Personal Injury

  • Road traffic accidents
  • Accidents at work
  • Fatal accidents
  • Claims of maximum severity
  • Tripping and slipping accidents
  • Family

  • Complex and high value
  • Divorces
  • Pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements
  • Financial injunctions
  • Complex private children matters
  • Cohabitation disputes
  • Family mediation
  • Collaborative law
  • Family Mediation & Civil Mediation

  • 5 Family Mediators
  • Franchise for mediation only
  • 10 years experience
  • Supervises other mediators
  • Will visit other law firms
  • 4 civil mediators SWT/HES/JIS/ACO
  • 15 years experience