Laura Manton

Dawson Hart score a hat trick at the Uckfield Business Awards! We recently celebrated a remarkable evening at the Uckfield Business Awards , held on September 26 th at the East Sussex National Hotel. Organised by Ian Noble of the Uckfield Chamber of...

Dawson Hart's Good Friday Easter Egg Hunt raised over £2100 for the Children with Cancer Fund

Come and join us for a fun-filled Easter extravaganza at Uckfield Rugby Club on Good Friday, March 29th, 2024, from 11am to 1:30pm . The event is all in aid of the Children with Cancer Fund, so come ready for a day of egg-hunting, games, and giving back to...

Welcome to the Dawson Hart 2023 Roundup. It has been a great year for Dawson Hart and we are excited to show you what we have been up to. In 2023 we have seen four new additions to the Dawson Hart Family; Jo Claxton (Private Client Solicitor), Tom Duc ...

People often ask whether an estate will ‘go to Probate’, although many are unclear exactly what this means. A Grant of Probate (or Letters of Administration if there is no Will) authorises the Executor to administer the estate by collecting in...

We have been running and cycling to raise money for the Uckfield Foodbank On 21 st May a team took part in the Hailsham 10k fun run and they made it over the finish line in good time despite the warm weather! The team have been training hard and supporting...

Since the success of our Good Friday Easter Egg Hunt when we raised over £1,600 for Uckfield Foodbank, a number of us have been training for the Hailsham Fun Fun on Sunday 21st May. We have a team who will be running the 10k and we have been training...

What a truly wonderful day we had on Good Friday at the Uckfield Rugby Club Hempstead Fields at our Charity Easter Egg Hunt raising money for the Uckfield Foodbank As we have not been able to hold our annual Easter Egg Hunt since 2019 it made it...

We are so egg-cited that we are holding a Charity Easter Egg Hunt (our first since 2019) at Uckfield Rugby Club Hempstead Fields TN22 1LX from 11am – 2pm on Good Friday 7 th April 2023 Join us with the Easter Bunny for some great...

We are so egg-cited that we are holding a Charity Easter Egg Hunt (our first since 2019) at Uckfield Rugby Club Hempstead Fields TN22 1LX from 11am – 2pm on Good Friday 7 th April 2023 Join us with the Easter Bunny for some great...

We are delighted to be the new sponsors of Crowborough Athletic Football Club’s U14’s team! The team were in need of a new kit and, after a long break in the season due to Christmas and bad weather, they finally got to give the new kits an...

We had an incredible might yesterday at our Barn Dance at the cinque ports. With the incredible Catsfield Steamers it was a huge success and a complete sell out! With the generous support of Vince Taylor Tofts estate agents and THE STORES DEPT and...

We are holding a Barn Dance on Friday 18th November 2022 at 7.30 at the Cinque Ports in Uckfield to raise money for Charity for Kids, our Charity of the Year. We are lucky enough to have the amazing Catsfield Steamers playing at our event...

We are two weeks into our June Challenge 2022 for Charity for Kids! 10 members of staff at Dawson Hart are really embracing this year’s challenge of reaching (and in many cases exceeding) 26.2 miles by either running, walking, cycling or swimming or a...

Our fundraising has started for Charity for Kids! Each year Dawson Hart employees vote for a charity to focus their fundraising efforts on for the coming year and this year Charity for Kids won the vote! Charity for Kids is based in Hastings and Rother and...

On Friday it gave me great pleasure to present Margaret Dode-Angel with a cheque for £4,522.78 for Sussex Support Services which provides day activities for older people in Uckfield. Margaret said "It has meant so much to our small organisation...

We are delighted to announce that we have raised over £4,250 for Sussex Support Services CIC who have been our charity of the year for the past two years. Sussex Support Services provides day activities for older people in East Sussex living with...

Laura Manton, Business Development Director and a member of the Wills, Probate and Trusts Team will be putting on her running shoes for the third time to take part in the Beachy Head 10km run which is thought to be one of the most challenging 10km runs in...

We are delighted to announce that the Private Client department of Dawson Hart Solicitors has raised over £2,000 for Will Aid 2020. They gave up their time and expertise to draw up Wills while the charities received much-needed donations for...

Laura Manton, Director and Tracey Pugh, Legal Assistant in the Wills, Probate and Trusts Team will be putting on their running shoes to take part in one of the most challenging 10km runs in the country They will be running the Beachy Head 10km which is...

In these unprecedented times, it seems that the only thing we can be certain of is uncertainty. Covid-19 has affected us all in one way or another. Some have been unwell with the illness or have lost loved ones. Others have been affected by job losses or...

7 members of our team will be running and walking 600K during the month of June to raise money for Sussex Support Services which is our charity of the year Due to lockdown and social distancing we have not been able to hold our regular fundraising...

We were disappointed not to hold the annual Dawson Hart Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday when we had hoped to raise lots of money for our Charity of the Year, the Sussex Support Service. However, with the introduction of lockdown for the whole country, it was...

Laura Manton , Director at Dawson Hart Solicitors Wills and Probate Team looks at why those thinking about making and signing their Wills need to be very careful during these times of social distancing. When it comes to signing a Will in England...

It just wouldn’t be Easter without Dawson Hart's Easter Egg Hunt which took place on Good Friday. This year the Easter Bunny was joined by Wilfy the bear who made lots of children smile whilst raising money for St Wilfrids Hospice in Eastbourne....

Our seminar this morning for Business Owners was a great success. It covered planning opportunities for business owners and their families. A retiring business owner once said that he wished he had looked after his own affairs as well as he had...

Over £825 was raised for charity in a Fright Night event organised by Dawson Hart Solicitors at the Cinque Ports club on Friday 21 st October. In a change from the barn dance, spooky decorations adorned the walls of the hall at the Cinque Ports and...

Dawson Hart Solicitors are proud to announce that they have been shortlisted for the Law Society Excellence Awards 2016. These prestigious awards run by the Law Society celebrate the legal profession’s outstanding achievements. “We are delighted...

George Osborne has recently delivered his seventh Budget as chancellor, the first for a majority Conservative government since November 1996. One of the headlines in the news read ‘End of Inheritance tax on family homes worth up to £1m’ At...

Last week the staff at Dawson Hart raised £79.42 in support of our charity of the year making donations and sporting the yellow and blue Rockinghorse colours to work. Many of our staff also baked delicious cakes to sell on the day. So far this year...

On Good Friday over 100 children met the Easter Bunny for a charity Easter Egg hunt in aid of the Rockinghorse Children’s Charity at the Uckfield Rugby Club, organised by Dawson Hart's very own charity committee. The Rockinghorse Children’s...

Preparations are well on their way for our Easter Egg hunt on Good Friday, 3 rd April at the Uckfield Rugby Club to raise money for the Rockinghorse Children’s Charity. Gates open at 10.30 at Hempstead Playing Fields, TN22 1LX. It is going to be a...

Modern technology in recent years has changed our lives in so many respects. Having access to the internet on our phone means we can do all our banking, shopping, ‘to do’ lists and communicating at a time that suits us. Last October, the...

We all like to be in control of our own destiny which includes how we manage our finances and our health. Understandably none of us like to envisage how things would be if we had a debilitating illness, a stroke, a serious mental illness or a car accident...

I was thrilled to have been invited to represent the Private Client team at the official opening of the new St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne this morning. There was great excitement from all the staff and visitors at the hospice as we eagerly waited...

Did you know that if you become incapable of making decisions about your finances and financial affairs, generally, no one else can do it for you – not even your spouse or children? This can cause a particular problem if others need to access your...

Having a young family of my own I know how hard it is to even think about what would happen to our daughters, if both my husband and I were to die. Sometimes, it seems easier to push those thoughts to the back of your mind (and I know I have done this!)....