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Keep up to date with changes in the law, notable cases and examples of how we have helped our clients.

Wear a green ribbon to support World Mental Health Day on 10 October

To show our support for year’s World Mental Health Day, Miles & Partners has joined the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and will be participating in the Green Ribbon Campaign to help end the stigma of mental health. Rachel Turner recently attended ...

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08.10.2018

An image of Rachel Turner, Mental Health and Capacity lawyer at Miles & Partners in London

Miles & Partners welcomes Rachel Turner as equity partner

We are delighted to announce that Rachel Turner has joined the equity partnership at Miles & Partners Solicitors in the City of London. Rachel, who is joint head of our Mental Health and Capacity department, joined the firm in 2012 ...

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20.09.2018

Miles & Partners appoints two new partners from the family law team

Everyone at Miles & Partners offers our warmest congratulations to Dee Atkar and Ritu Sood, solicitors in our family law team, on their appointment as partners, effective from 14 June 2018. Dee and Ritu are expert family law solicitors, are both members ...

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23.07.2018

An image of Floyd Porter, mental health and capacity lawyer

Floyd Porter receives Accredited Legal Representative status in the Court of Protection

Floyd Porter, partner and joint head of our Mental Capacity team, has been appointed as an Accredited Legal Representative in the Court of Protection with effect from 26 June 2018 by the Law Society of England and Wales as part ...

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11.07.2018

Unite against dementia for Dementia Action Week

This year, Dementia Awareness Week has changed to Dementia Action Week and takes place from 21 to 27 May. We are joining The Alzheimer’s Society in encouraging everyone to unite and make a change by taking action against dementia (no matter how ...

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14.05.2018

Congratulations to newly appointed Councillor Erica Gbajumo on her Brent election victory!

Our heartiest congratulations to Erica Gbajumo, a legal assistant in the Miles & Partners Solicitors family law department, for winning a seat in the recent London Borough of Brent local council election. On 3 May 2018, Erica was voted in ...

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14.05.2018

Rajea received this engraved plaque from a housing client

Rajea Sultana receives beautiful engraved thank you plaque from homeless client

The team have been moved to tears as this special engraved testimony was presented to Rajea, recognising her dedicated work on a homeless client’s case three years ago. The client had been sleeping rough when Rajea took on the case, ...

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10.05.2018

Good news as Barratt Developments agree to pay fire safety costs for Croydon tower block residents

Leaseholders of apartments in the Citiscape development breathe a sigh of relief as the original developer steps in to shoulder responsibility for the costs of replacement cladding and a fire warden. After Citiscape in Croydon failed safety tests due to ...

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02.05.2018

Andrew Bowmer, Mental health & capacity solicitor, Miles & Partners

Mental capacity team goes from strength to strength with Andrew Bowmer

Andrew Bowmer, a strong practitioner in mental capacity law, joined Miles and Partners on 5 February 2018. Andrew qualified as a solicitor in December 2008, drawing on his previous career working in central Government, including on local authority governance policy ...

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15.03.2018