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Richard Wollaston recently handed over a cheque for £30,000 to Farleigh Hospice, raised by the runners and businesses that supported the 2009 Wollastons Race for Business. "Last year's Race for Business was another great success" said Richard Wollaston.  "Over 1,800 runners took part from more than ...

The winner of the Wollastons' Christmas e-card challenge was Dan Drysdale of Richard Edwards & Co, Chartered Accountants in Halstead, Essex.  The online challenge to complete a matching pairs style game in the fastest time possible was won by Dan with a winning time of 21.82 ...

We are anticipating a recovery in the legal market by announcing two senior appointments. Richard Cooke, pictured left, has been recruited as a Partner to join our Construction team and brings a wealth of experience to the firm.Until three years ago, Richard was ...

What do you do when a competitor uses or attacks your brand? What can you do about the damage to your customer relationships, sales and reputation? We held a free breakfast seminar on 1st December where our expert speakers detailed the practical steps that you can ...

Jim Little's book on 'Planning Controls and their Enforcement' has now been in publication for 45 years and is currently in its 7th Edition.  It is in loose-leaf and is kept up-to-date by supplements, usually twice a year.By last Summer there had been ...

Richard Wollaston ran the Royal Parks half marathon on behalf of St Dunstan's, a charity specialising in giving support to blind ex-service men and women like his own father-in-law, Bill Routledge, who is now 90 years old and was a POW on the Burma railway. Richard managed the ...

We have once again been named in the September 2009 edition of The Legal 500 as a "Regional Heavyweight" for the eighth year running. We are the only Essex firm ranked as a "Regional Heavyweight" across the entire South East Region running from Southampton up ...

On 29 April and 5 May Wollastons' employment law team held two free half-day employment law seminars at Waterfront Place, Chelmsford covering the latest developments in this ever-changing area of law. Topics included: -  Redundancies-  The Employment Act 2008-  Discrimination Update-  Employment Law Round ...

Nicholas Cook, a consultant at Wollastons, has been appointed as Chairman of Chelmsford Business Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity for private and public sector organisations in the borough to work together, share information and build business relationships for the purpose of enhancing the prosperity of ...

Over 1,800 runners from 187 Essex businesses took part in the 11th Race for Business on Wednesday 10 June. Since the first Race for Business in 1998, we have raised over £315,000 for various charities. Further sponsorship money is already pouring in for the 2009 Race.  ...