Alarm Conference 2022

We make sure that austerity and reduced budgets don’t leave you open to risk and public scrutiny.

We provide a blended solution of claims management, adjusting and legal expertise from first notification of loss cradle-to-grave claims management.

Our legal and arboricultural experts know that you need to balance claim spend reduction with protection of the natural environment. We can help you manage this by assisting on tree risk policies and strategies, as well as robustly defending claims when they arise.

Whether you find yourself dealing with a workplace accident, environmental incident, economic crime & fraud investigation, general crime and road traffic investigation, or an unexpected visit from a regulator, our crisis and incident management experts are on hand to guide and assist you. 

Register for our 24/7 hotline to safeguard your reputation and protect your business. The service is led by our Tier 1 ranked UK Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations Team.

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We advise police forces, healthcare, custodial and justice providers with a proven track record of positive outcomes, balancing issues such as reputational risk against a background of an uncertain commercial and economic climate.

The delivery of frontline services to communities increasingly relies on a government's ability to do more with less and to respond to changing regulatory and funding frameworks with solutions and robust strategies - all securely and legally. With this, having legal support from those with a solid understanding of regional and local government  can be very important.

A summary of the conjoined appeal of two cases concerning the issue of whether the defendant local authorities owed a duty of care to keep the claimants safe from the foreseeable risk of injury from their respective families.

The High Court recently dismissed a claimant's application for an extension of time to serve his Particulars of Claim. In this article we explain the procedural background and why the application was dismissed. 

DWF's YouGov survey examines the views of voters in England's North and Midlands. Read about the key findings in our report.