Firm News

Christopher Wharton Goldsmith is a long established jewellery design and manufacturing business at No1 George Street, St Albans, specialising in beautiful hand made rings and jewellery. Other brands stocked are: - Breitling, Ebel, Edox, TW Steele...
On October 21st, Kings Langley Cricket Club held their annual Colts' awards. This year, the club was celebrating, arguably, its most successful Colts' season ever. The Colts' section of the Club is sponsored by Debenhams Ottaway solicitors. The...
Debenhams Ottaway has been short listed in the ‘Best Medium Sized Business’ category of the Herts Business Awards. This was a heavily contested category. The firm was short listed following the completion of a comprehensive submission. Louise...
Herts Business Expo Debenhams Ottaway will be exhibiting at the Herts Business Expo on 8th November 2011     Click here for more details  ...
At the recent St Albans Chamber of Commerce Community Business Awards dinner, Debenhams Ottaway won the Best Corporate Responsibility Category. The category was keenly contested, with 30 submissions being made for consideration. After a thorough selection...
Following a successful victory last year for the team from Stags School, mentored by Debenhams Ottaway Dragon Luke Harrison, the firm is pleased to announce that Luke will be mentoring a new batch of Apprentices this year. He has teamed up with Onslow...
The Debenhams Ottaway Private Client team is already highly regarded across Hertfordshire, and last week the team was, for the first time, recognised as a top tier Private Client Practice in the 2011 Legal 500 directory for South East England. The Legal...
Following the outstanding success of the Community Gold Awards, which ran for two years, Debenhams Ottaway has once again teamed up with the St Albans & Harpenden Review newspaper to run the ‘Inspiring People Awards’. The aim of these awards...
Debenhams Ottaway Shortlisted for Community Business Award Debenhams Ottaway has recently been shortlisted for the St Albans District Chamber of Commerce Community Business Awards. The awards take place on the 29 th September. Ian Hopkins, Chief...
Debenhams Ottaway, the St Albans based firm of solicitors, has recently been appointed to provide legal advice in property and trust matters to the Diocese of St Albans. The St Albans diocese encompasses Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. As a direct result of...
Debenhams Ottaway, the St Albans based firm of solicitors, has recently been appointed to provide legal advice in property and trust matters to the Diocese of St Albans. The St Albans diocese encompasses Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. As a direct result of...

Our first Client and Intermediary Survey Report has just been published. We are committed to a programme of continuous improvement and use the survey results to correct any weaknesses and fine-tune our services.

Ensuring our priorities reflect our clients’ needs Debenhams Ottaway is committed to a programme of continuous improvement. To assist us to prioritise areas for improvement we undertake two surveys. Our Client Survey is sent out to all clients at...
Leading Property Lawyer joins Debenhams Ottaway Ruth Boulton joins Debenhams Ottaway from Thomas Eggar LLP Debenhams Ottaway, the Hertfordshire based firm of solicitors, has recently announced the appointment of a new property partner. Ruth Boulton...
Debenhams Ottaway are pleased to announce that the STAGS Dragons Apprentice team, SHS fundraising, has won the 2010/11 Dragons Apprentice challenge. The team, Amelia Sweeney, Chloe Williams, Kirsty Seymour and Molly Pearson not only raised the most money,...
Debenhams Ottaway are pleased to announces that the STAGs school Dragons Apprentice team, SHS fundraising, is one of six teams to be shortlisted as a finalist in the CONNECT ST ALBANS DRAGONS’ APPRENTICE AWARDS to be held on March 16 at the University...
The Mayor of St Albans congratulates the 2010/11 Community Gold winners On 10th March 2011 Debenhams Ottaway solicitors hosted a reception for the 2010/11 Community Gold winners. The Mayor of St Albans attended the reception and added her own personal...
With the competing pressures of tightening margins, a demanding economic climate and slimmer operating structures businesses are increasingly finding that ‘rock solid’ terms and conditions of trade are essential to avoid protracted damaging...
On 10th November, the High Court ruled in favour of housebuilder CALA Homes confirming that communities secretary Eric Pickles had acted unlawfully in July when he unilaterally revoked the system of Regional Spatial Strategies in England. His action...
Retrospective planning application refused for second time at traveller site in Shenley ...
The Council’s refusal to allow a residential Barn conservatory was overturned by the Inspector on appeal who agreed with us that the proposed extension was not a disproportionate addition to the original dwelling and that some flexibility was allowed...
We successfully challenged St Albans District Council’s refusal to grant planning permission for a side and rear extension to a local resident despite similar extensions having been allowed on the same road. Public law principles demand consistency...
“We are pleased to announce that planning partner Bernadette Hillman has been reelected as the Legal Member to the General Assembly of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2011 -2012”. ...
The Dragon’s Apprentice charity challenge 2011 was officially launched on 22nd September. The Challenge is organised by the St Albans Centre for Voluntary Service. This is the second year that the challenge has been run. Last year 3 teams took part and...
September saw the annual Community Business Awards, with D.O for the first time sponsoring the Best New Business award. Three local companies, Training U Ltd, ELS and SmallcarBIGCITY were nominated. Following a rigorous judging process which included...