Wake Smith helps Hatchery entrepreneurs at SHU
An innovative local business, established through Sheffield Hallam University's (SHU) business start-up service and with the help of law firm Wake Smith & Tofields, will be celebrating 6 months successful trading…
Wake Smith prepares businesses for the Equality Act 2010
Employment experts from Wake Smith & Tofields are set to meet employers from across the region who are eager to learn more about the imminent arrival of the Equality Act 2010, the single biggest piece of discrimination…
Is Big Brother watching you?
After 11 series and over 1,000 hours on our TV screens, Big Brother is coming to an end. However, over the past 10 years, has the reality show become a reality for employees across the UK? Certainly for the…
Sheffield legal experts help launch Taste Tideswell
Wake Smith & Tofields has been appointed by local produce enterprise Taste Tideswell to provide legal advice in its quest to launch several community led business ventures. Tideswell was recently awarded a £400,000…
Wake Smith launches healthcare division
Wake Smith has launched a specialist healthcare team to provide expert guidance to those working in the healthcare industry in Yorkshire. Pressures to make cost efficiencies amidst increasing Government budgetary…
Pleural plaques former claimants payment scheme opens for applications
The Government's Pleural Plaques Former Claimants Payment Scheme opens for applications today. Pleural plaques are small, localised areas of fibrosis caused by exposure to asbestos fibres found within the pleura…
Wake Smith Helps Launch Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity Shop
Commercial property solicitors at Wake Smith have completed a pro bono project which has seen the opening of the first charity shop run by Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. Commercial Property Partner Neil…
Getting paid for getting dressed
You may have heard on the radio or read in the weekend papers that a policeman in Germany has been awarded 7 extra days holiday a year after complaining to a court that changing into his uniform every day amounted…
Salvation Army Trading Company Expands Retail Portfolio With Sheffield Firm
Wake Smith is supporting an aggressive expansion programme across the UK for the retail division of Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd (SATCoL), the UK trading arm of The Salvation Army. Experts in the firm's…
Trusts and wills are vulnerable to new CGT rate
The Capital Gains Tax (CGT) increase announced in the recent Emergency Budget will mean trustees and personal representatives administering the estates of the deceased could feel the full brunt of the rise as gains…
