Diana is a solicitor in our Commercial Property team
Diana is a commercial property solicitor who qualified in 2018. She joined Machins Solicitors in October 2023 after working for a leading firm in Cambridge.
Diana has over five years’ experience in commercial property having spent much of her training within the commercial property department at a firm in Bedfordshire. Diana’s experience covers several commercial property matters including commercial leases, sales, acquisitions, and commercial property financing. Diana has experience working with both individual and corporate clients including land developers.
Parents, carers and pregnant women now benefit from greater employment protections relating to flexible working and redundancy. The changes, which came into effect on April 6, include: This runs alongside new laws that give workers more flexibility over where and when they work, unless there are business reasons not to, as the Employment Relations (Flexible
From 29th April 2024, there are significant changes to the Family Procedure Rules, promoting the court’s powers to encourage parties to attend non-court dispute resolution at every stage in proceedings, for matters involving children and/or a financial dispute. The court will require parties to file and serve Form FM5, setting out their views on
It has been widely reported this week in the mainstream media that a couple had their divorce finalised in error following a mistake by solicitors which a senior judge has refused to overturn. The couple were separated and had applied for a divorce which had reached conditional order stage of the divorce. It would appear
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Millions of employees now have the right to request flexible working to determine where and when they work. The new rights are part of the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill, which came into effect on 6 April. Flexible working is a broad term and can relate to working hours or pattern including part-time, term-time, flexi-time,
Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget on 6 March, and it will probably be his last major fiscal announcement ahead of this year’s anticipated general election. With a focus on reducing tax for the working population and helping parents, there were several announcements in the Budget that affect businesses and employees which I consider and