When the ‘Beautiful Game’ can turn ugly – an employment perspective
The first game of the World Cup is scheduled to take place on 21 November 2022. Excitement is building. Social events are being organised by employers and between work colleagues themselves to view the games. And from that, sadly, problems can arise. There are essentially two issues. Firstly, if the social event is organised by […]
LGL Golf Day 2022
On Friday 16th September LGL held its 5th annual Golf Day at St Clement’s Golf Club raising money for our chosen charity, Beresford Street Kitchen. Eight teams fought it out on the day and whilst there were some good scores, nobody got a hole in one to win the car on offer! The winning team […]
Remembering
The office turned red today in memory of Armistice Day and to celebrate 100 years of the Royal British Legion.
Beresford Street Kitchen (“BSK”), our chosen charity for 2021
Beresford Street Kitchen helps people with learning difficulties and autism and provides them with training and employment. The key focus of BSK is to work with young people in order that they can learn new skills, work in their local community and enjoy the benefits that work has to offer and giving them the opportunity […]
Brighter Futures at a White Collar Darts event
This year Le Gallais & Luce will also be supporting Brighter Futures at a White Collar Darts event being held in September. We will be assisting in the sponsorship of Adam Clarke, a former partner at Le Gallais and Luce, who is taking part in the competition in order to raise funds for Brighter […]
Brightly Family Fun Day
Le Gallais and Luce are proud to support Brightly, a local charity that gives help to children and young people living in care, care experienced, or who are experiencing adversity. Brightly are running a Family Fun Day on Saturday 27th June 2020 to raise funds and awareness of the great work they do. Held at […]
Beresford Street Kitchen donation
Our Probate Team attended at Beresford Street Kitchen this morning to catch up with Georgie and the crew to provide them with the latest funds raised by Le Gallais and Luce. The sum of £655.60 was raised through the sale of our Christmas tree decorations (knitted by Hayley and Nicki), the sale of our bamboo […]
Armistice Day poppy display
Le Gallais and Luce were so inspired by the WI’s display of plastic poppies in the Town Church in 2018, that we have decided to make our own display. The display has been created by members of staff to commemorate Armistice Day and the whole project has been led by Nicki Brittain who works in […]
Celebratory tennerfest lunch at BSK
Yesterday, the staff at Le Gallais and Luce had the opportunity to attend a lunch at BSK in support of our chosen charity for 2019. The crew did us proud by serving a delicious two course lunch. The occasion was also used to present the proceeds of our annual golf day. This was held in […]
Totally Banana’s
Our messenger, Adrian, has gone wild on his morning rounds! Another gorilla located – well done !
…White Collar Surfing Finalist!
The firm is delighted to announce that Advocate Michelle Palmer made the final of the Island’s inaugural Le Rossignol Estates White Collar Surfing Competition. The competition took place at St Ouen’s Bay and was a huge success, with decent waves for the competitors, lots of sunshine for the spectators, as well as lots of laughs. […]
…and she’s up!
As you may recall, the firm is sponsoring Advocate Michelle Palmer in the Island’s inaugural Le Rossignol Estates “White Collar” Surfing Competition. The competition is being held to raise money for local charities Healing Waves and Peas & Glove, and will be held on Saturday 13th July 2019 at St Ouen’s Bay following 6 weeks […]
Capacity and Self Determination (Jersey) Law 201-: A step too far?
It is proposed that in 2018 a new law to be known as the Capacity and Self Determination (Jersey) Law (“the Law”) will be introduced to assist those who no longer have capacity to deal with their affairs, to include, but not limited to, replacing the current Curatorship system with a Delegate system. Solicitor Marianne […]
Advocate Michelle Palmer enters surfing competition
The firm is delighted to announce its sponsorship of Advocate Michelle Palmer in the Island’s inaugural Le Rossignol Estates “White Collar” Surfing Competition. The competition is being held to raise money for local charities Healing Waves and Peas & Glove, and will be held on Saturday 13th July 2019 at St Ouen’s Bay following 6 […]
Giving Christmas Tree
A prize star-studded “Giving Christmas Tree” for Beresford Street Kitchen The Christmas tree in Le Gallais & Luce’s reception is adorned with Hotel Chocolat crackers, some of which include a mystery star prize! Our clients and business partners are invited to pop in and purchase a cracker for a minimum donation of £10 and find […]
Star struck!
Following the success of our initiative to donate 10% of all our will writing fees in 2016/2017 to the Jersey Branch of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, we were delighted to be notified by the charity that given the sums raised we would be able to name our own guide dog. In 2017 […]
Exam success
Le Gallais & Luce are very proud to announce that Sophie Hoynes, who works in our litigation department, has passed her law degree from the Jersey Law Institute. Congratulations Sophie!
Celebrating 25 years
Fiona del Amo was sworn in as a solicitor on 1 July 1993 so to celebrate her 25 years we are being treated to cakes . Congratulations Fiona.
Guide dog association for the blind
The Wills and Probate Department at Le Gallais & Luce have donated a percentage of its will-writing fees to the Jersey Branch of the Guide Dogs for the Blind. Following this extremely successful campaign Le Gallais and Luce raised enough funds to pay for the training of a guide dog puppy named Star born on […]
Easter Bake Off
Our staff took part in an Easter bake off to raise funds for Jersey Hospice. The standards were very high as and the winner was Angela’s delicious carrot cake.