Rogan Thomas Solicitor Rogan joined the team at Livingstons in November 2020 and has recently completed his training. He works alongside Steve Walker in our Employment and Commercial department in our Ulverston office. Back to Team Profiles
Hannah Ashurst Trainee Solicitor Hannah joined the team at Livingstons in September 2023 after completing her Law degree at the University of Central Lancashire. She currently works in our Dalton office with the Conveyancing team but will experience all departments over her training period. Back to Team Profiles
Sarah Robinson Associate Legal Executive s.robinson@livingstons.co.uk Sarah graduated in Law with honours from Northumbria University in 2013 and began her legal career with a commercial law firm shortly afterwards. After joining Livingstons in June 2019, Sarah went on to complete the final stages of her academic training and qualified as a Fellow of CILEx in October 2020. Sarah specialises in children matters and [...]
Sharon Ritchie Associate Legal Executive s.ritchie@livingstons.co.uk Sharon has been employed at Livingstons Solicitors in the family department now for nearly 14 years. Prior to that she was employed in a family role at Forresters Solicitors in Barrow-in-Furness. Sharon deals primarily with divorce and financial disputes. Out of the office Sharon enjoys spending time with her [...]
Hayley Robinson Accounts Manager h.robinson@livingstons.co.uk Hayley is our Accounts Manager based in our Ulverston office. She joined us in 2022. In her spare time, Hayley is studying for her AAT qualifications. Back to Team Profiles
Employment Package for 2020 We are pleased to announce our new Employment Package for 2020. Using our long experience of advising local businesses, we have formulated an Employment Package which we believe will be of great benefit to all local businesses, regardless of size. We pride ourselves on being able to provide robust advice when [...]
Changes in Employment Law Statutory sick pay - is no longer reclaimable from the government As from 6th April 2014 it is no longer possible to for you as an employer to reclaim statutory sick pay from the government. The money saved by the new scheme, which is an estimated £50 million a year, is [...]
Pregnancy Q: I have been working in Ulverston for a company for the past two-and-a-half years and I have just found out that I am pregnant. A: Well first of all congratulations! You are now in what is known as the “protected period” and you have a number of new employment rights. Dear Jenny, What [...]
Tribunal Claims for Employers Dear Jenny, Q: I am an employer with 40 employees. A disgruntled employee has recently brought a claim against the company through the employment tribunal. It is very likely to cost the company thousands of pounds to defend the claim alone, even though I am convinced that the claim has no [...]
Christmas Party Problems Q: HI, I urgently need advice in relation to our Christmas party which was on December 22. We went to a local hotel for a meal and drinks and one of my female staff exposed herself, not only to her colleagues but to another party of guests and many of the hotel [...]
