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Corporate Members 2021

3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Battens Beale & Co BLM Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott CMS CMNO Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright GL Law Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Osborne Clarke Paragon Costs Solutions Queen Square Chambers … more

BLS features in Bristol Post oldest thriving companies in Bristol

Excerpt from the article: How Bristol’s oldest companies are still thriving after more than 100 years in business They include the city’s last-surviving chocolate maker a wine merchant and a tannery. Why do some companies struggle to survive beyond a year while others flourish for hundreds? Although more than 90 per cent of small companies in Britain will survive one … more

No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire

Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic. We can be contacted on info@bristollawsociety.com. In the meantime, our office is now operating as the Bristol Nightingale Court and accordingly, we are unable to hire out our facilities until further notice. (Oct 2020) Bristol Law Society’s suite … more

Guidance from DJ Britton on Costs budgets for cases issued pre 1.4.13

Alison Underhill of Wards has been in correspondence over costs with District Judge Bitton. The District Judge has asked that the correspondence be publicised widely to BLS members.

Alison comments: “Please find attached my recent letter to District Judge Britton and his response clarifying the practice being adopted in Bristol with regards to the need for filing of costs budgets in claims issued before 1st April 2013.  You will see that District Judge Britton has confirmed that the practice in Bristol will be that costs budgets are NOT required in these cases but that old style costs estimates will still be required.”