Introducing Monika Sargeant

The Directors of Bates Wells & Braithwaite are pleased to welcome Monika Sargeant as a Solicitor dealing with Employment Law as well as Corporate and Company Commercial matters.

Good News in Difficult Times

The Directors of Bates Wells & Braithwaite Limited, Sudbury, Solicitors (BWB) are pleased to announce the appointment of Glenn Blair to the Board as a Director and Head of their Private Client Department.

Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay

On 6th April 2020, parents and primary carers who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to at least two weeks’ paid parental bereavement leave.

Lay off and short time working

The economic effects of the coronavirus virus means many employers will faced a downturn in business and have to make costs savings.

Changes to IR 35 2020

UPDATE 27/03/2020: Since writing our article on the propose changes to IR35 the Government has delayed the controversial IR35 reform by one year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NOTICE RE MICROSOFT 365 GLOBAL OUTAGE

Please note that there is a global outage of Microsoft 365 systems that is causing disruptions to business worldwide.

What this means for us is that not all of our systems are operational, the most noticeable of which is we have no access to our email or electronic diary systems.

Our case management system that houses all our information and documentation is also partially affected and in some cases, we are unable to open or produce new documents.

This is entirely outside of our control whilst we wait for Microsoft to fix the issue.

Please bear with us in this time and we apologise for any delays that this might cause.

If you need to contact us urgently please call our switchboard on 01787 880440

Thank you

The Directors of Bates Wells & Braithwaite