What is Stress and How Can Your Employer Help You?
Stress is defined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them’. Stress is not an illness, but it can affect a person’s physical and mental health. If stress is not correctly managed, it can cause: ‘burnout’ (physical and…
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Comprehensive Guide to Deafblind Awareness
Deafblind Awareness Week, held annually from June 23rd to 29th, is a significant event aimed at raising awareness about the impact of deaf blindness on veterans and civilians. The National Deaf Blind Helpers League was established in 1928 by a small group of deafblind individuals and their families, later changing its name to Deafblind…
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Oakwood Solicitors Awarded 2025 Silver Defence ERS Award for Armed Forces Support
Oakwood Solicitors is proud to announce that it has been awarded the 2025 Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Silver Award (#SilverERS25) by the UK Ministry of Defence. This prestigious recognition highlights the firm’s ongoing commitment to supporting the Armed Forces community and delivering on its pledges under the Armed Forces Covenant. The ERS Silver Award…
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Guide to Military Musculoskeletal Injury Claims
The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) commemorates its 12th anniversary on June 23rd, 2025, for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). The platform aims to highlight the under-representation of women engineers globally, with only 16.5% of UK engineers being women in 2021. It promotes gender diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and…
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Company Fined 40k for Failing to Protect Employees From Wood Dust Exposure
Nat Pal Ltd, a woodworking supplier based in Fakenham, has been fined £40,000 after Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection found serious breaches in protecting workers from hazardous wood dust exposure – a known cause of asthma and nose cancer. Nat Pal Ltd’s HSE violations explained The inspection revealed major failings in the…
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Unwritten Wills Fuel Family Feuds: Intestacy Hits Five-Year High
The Ministry of Justice reports a 17% increase in probate disputes, with over 51,140 estates in the last year, reaching a five-year high. Indicating a growing risk of potential feuds over inheritances. In cases where a person dies without a will and owns valuable assets, the court typically issues a ‘grant of letters of…
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Veterans’ Loneliness Awareness Week: Rebuilding Lives, Ending Isolation
Loneliness Awareness Week, hosted by Marmalade Trust, from 9th to 15th June. Aims to reduce stigma around the natural human emotion. The UK Government plans to implement practical, cost-effective recommendations to address systemic issues and rehabilitation of life for those affected by loneliness. Highlighting the urgent need for increased awareness and support for UK…
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Blue Light Card – Discount Scheme
The news that Australia now allows individuals to access multiple gender options for their passport, sparked a question in me. Wills and the LGBTQ Spectrum.
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Silicosarcoidosis: New Occupational Lung Disease Linked to Silica Exposure
Researchers at National Jewish Health and partners in Colorado, Illinois, Taiwan, and Israel have added the new term ‘Silicosarcoidosis’ to the medical language. The term refers to patients showing characteristics of silicosis and sarcoidosis, severe pulmonary diseases. Caused by occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS), commonly found in mining, construction, and engineered…
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