We are pleased to share that we are now the exclusive partner of Age Connects Cardiff & The Vale for providing legal advice to users on all Private Client related matters!

We have supported Age Connect for over 18 years and facilitate a monthly legal clinic at their health shop on Holton Road to provide advice to their supporters when needed.

Below is our feature in the Autumn 2023 edition of Age Connects ‘Life Times’ magazine. We have lots of spare copies in the office if anybody would like to have a read!

We also support Philip Batchelor and the team at Home Instead UK (Cardiff branch). We’re really looking forward to strengthening our partnership with them moving forward.

Carli Evans Elin J. Claire Grace Sally Matthews Emily Gammon Charmaine Earley

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Legal Aid Child / Family Solicitor to join our practice in our Vale of Glamorgan offices.

We have an excellent reputation for providing effective, practical legal services to our clients for care and family matters,

As a Family Solicitor, you will assist on both Private and Legal aid matters across a broad range of family matters managing the cases effectively through the case management system and building and maintaining positive client relationships.

For further details please contact Sally Matthews.

Carli Evans, Director at Passmores Solicitors, is pleased to announce that the firm has once again obtained the Law Society’s England and Wales Lexcel accreditation.

This is an achievement in Excellence in Legal Practice Management and Client Care.

 

Support research into cancer and fund over one-third of researchers’ life-saving research by participating in the Free Will Scheme. Your donation will enable long-term research projects allowing scientists to achieve breakthroughs every day and leading to new treatments to continue saving lives for generations to come.

Since joining the Free Will Scheme in 2013, Passmores have written 789 wills with a total pledge amount of £1,217,445.

To put that value into perspective, £1.2m could fund the STAMPEDE trial in Cardiff, which is finding new treatments for people with advanced prostate cancer for over 7 years. With the help of funding like this, the STAMPEDE trial has already made a breakthrough in finding that adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at the beginning of treatment can greatly improve survival.

How to contribute:

Simply choose to leave a gift in your will to Cancer Research UK. There are many ways in which gifts can be left to Cancer Research UK, all you need to do is ask a legal professional who will advise you on how best to leave gifts.

Gifts can include:

RESIDUARY GIFTS

A residuary gift is a share of your estate rather than a fixed amount. These gifts retain their value and will not be affected by inflation. They can also grow over a lifetime, i.e., if you leave a 5% gift aged 25, this gift will grow alongside your net worth.

PECUNIARY GIFTS

A pecuniary gift (also known as a “cash gift”) is a specific sum of money given in a Will.

INDEX-LINKED PECUNIARY GIFT

An index-linked pecuniary gift is a specific sum of money given in a Will which is linked to the index of retail prices. Its sum will vary in line with any possible inflation increases however the gift is also protected against inflation eroding/decreasing its value.

SPECIFIC GIFT

These gifts include more specific items such as jewellery, stocks and shares, or a property. Recent examples include a Cartier ring worth c. £100k and a classic car worth £150k. Cancer Research UK will use their knowledge, expertise and contacts to maximise the value of specific gifts.

“We are absolutely honoured to be working with such a life-changing and positive charity to help support people who are suffering from cancer. We are thrilled that we have raised over £1m through this scheme and thank you for your continuous support.”

Carli Evans, Director at Passmores Solicitors.

Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading Cancer research charity and in the past 40 years, has helped to double the cancer survival rate. This could not have been possible without the funding of Cancer Research UK’s supporters who have funded over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses across the UK.

1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime.[1] Cancer Research UK aims to accelerate progress and see 3 in 4 people surviving their cancer by 2034 but this will not be possible without the help of their supporters.

For more information about Cancer Research UK, the operation of the Free Wills Service and how gifts can make a difference please call 0300 123 7733 (Monday – Friday: 8am – 5pm) or email supporterservices@cancer.org.uk

[1] Ahmad AS et al, British Journal of Cancer, 2015.

Article by Elin Jones, Paralegal