Whitfield Business Support has showcased its diverse service offering after arranging a series of summer team building exercises for us here at Laird Assessors. The Heswall based firm provides a proactive and dynamic ‘business incubator’ service. It is geared toward speeding up the growth of startup and early stage companies, as well as successful SMEs. It…
Redundancy was the catalyst for my success Our very own Nik Ellis on how he made it in today’s Echo… Nik Ellis, owner manager of Laird Assessors and Whitfield Business Support My first taste of business began in my father’s Toyota dealership in Liverpool where I spent five years learning everything automotive – from how…
Friday 1st July saw all of the Laird come together at HQ in Heswall for our annual staff summer meeting & party. After a morning of expert witness discussion, training & debates, everyone was split into teams & given an ‘Apprentice’ style set of items & clues to find their way around various Heswall businesses….
Growing our own… Laird Assessors are proud to support the development of all staff not more so than our apprentice intake. We have found that refocusing recruitment on apprenticeships as well as experienced members of staff allows us to teach them new skills in a relaxed no pressure environment. Slowly allowing staff to be integrated…
One of our teams of experts have recently attended Thatcham’s Research Repair Focus 2016 held at Thatcham Research Centre. With the number of advances in technology this event was paramount to our experts busy diary of training and development. Head of Automotive, Lee Baty, commented” Working with some of the country’s largest network of repairer…
The recent case of Van Oord Ltd & Another –v- Allseas (UK) Ltd highlighted the importance of an expert witness understanding his duties to the Court. Mr Justice Coulson was unrestrained with his criticism that the expert’s report was tendentious at best and in some areas misleading, relying heavily on hearsay evidence from the claimant…
With the amount of technological advancements within the automotive sector we feel it is important to keep up with an ever changing industry to ensure that our experts are trained to the highest standard. We work with some of the countries largest and most experienced bodyshops and repairer networks and feel it is important that…
At Laird Expert we understand the importance of speed and mitigation of costs when looking after your fleet of vehicles, thus reducing the risk of extended hire bills and inflated repair costs. At the initial outset of an incident we have procedures in place which can determine the roadworthiness of either the fault or non-fault…
Christine Baty our Department Manager and Lee Baty our Engineering Manager went over the do’s and don’ts of Locus with Edward Mawdsley, currently one of our In House Engineers. Ed being the sponge that he is soaked up the wisdom and went straight out to do our mock inspection. Taking it all in his stride,…
This week Laird have been busy raising some extra funds for Radio Cities Cash For Kids on the back of Superhero Day, which took place on May 8th raising £156 on the day, but we knew we could do better… Monday 16th – Friday 20th Laird held numerous fundraising activities to help boost our total…