By John Hyde2021-04-20T08:48:00+01:00
A Liverpool law firm which offered to help other practices escape the personal injury market has itself been placed into administration.
Pilkington Solicitors Limited, trading as Pilkington Shaw Solicitors, was put in the hands of administrators Andrew Poxon and Mike Dillion from financial firm Leonard Curtis at the end of March.
It is understood that a buyer has been found for the firm’s work in progress but there has been no update about what happened to the remaining staff. According to the most recent accounts, for the year ending 31 March 2019, the firm employed 25 people.
Trendy apartment scheme that never really existed as deposit money is returned
A company which represents buyers of the scheme said it is troubling that this development never really existed, except in glossy brochures and on websites.
A CGI of North Point Global development Berry House, part of the Gallery+ scheme in the Baltic Triangle (Image: Liverpool ECHO)
Deposits worth hundreds of thousands of pounds that were invested in a failed property scheme in Liverpool city centre have now been returned to buyers.
Berry House, an apartment scheme in the heart of Liverpool s trendy Baltic Quarter, was first promoted to potential investors in December 2015.
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Value growth in the market has been between 2.5% and 2.8% in recent years, i.e. 2017 and 2018, but annual value growth improved marginally in 2019 when it reached an estimated 3.1%. However, it is unlikely that this growth will be sustained in 2020 or 2021.
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The planned small claims reforms have been hanging over the market for months and changes to the timing of these reforms continues to create uncertainty in the sector. These reforms have now been put back again to April 2021 and, if this date is finally the one, then there will be more pressure on a market that is already seeing a decrease in road traffic accident (RTA) claims, the largest claims sector