Category Archives: FAQs

From time to time you may have a legal query that you would like advice on and our frequently asked questions section may be able to help you. This section is a compilation of questions that have appeared in the regular Westmeath Examiner column written by our partner, John Shaw. Each week John will add another topic of interest for our clients and Westmeath Examiner readers. Feel free to refer family, friends and colleagues to this section. Topics covered include: Employment Law, Family Law, Mortgage and Contract Law, Consumer Law and much more…..

Bullying in the workplace

By Shaws | Published: June 21, 2010

Question: I have a very difficult working relationship with my boss.  I feel under constant stress because I get repeated requests with impossible tasks or targets.  Recently my boss has become even more unreasonable and has started using quite aggressive language when I have tried to explain to him that I simply cannot cope.  What […]

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I have been nominated as the Executor of a Will. What does this entail?

By Shaws | Published: May 31, 2010

Question: Somewhat to my surprise I have been nominated as the Executor of a Will.  What does this entail?  Answer: Your function as an Executor is to extract a Grant of Probate to the Estate and to administer the Estate of the deceased.  I suppose the first thing to say is that you are not […]

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Civil Partnership Bill

By Shaws | Published: May 31, 2010

Question: I read your article recently about the Civil Partnership Bill.  My partner and I would like to get married but we cannot do so because of difficulties with a foreign divorce.  Ideally we would like to enter into a Civil Partnership Agreement so that we can agree what is to happen after we die.  […]

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