Focus On.....Drug and Alcohol Screening

In association with a world leading forensic accredited laboratory, London House can provide our clients with informative lectures, advice and consultation as well as comprehensive screening and testing services.

Amongst other things, research has shown that drug screening can reduce accidents in the workplace, increase the quality of work, reduce absenteeism and sickness and increase productivity.

Full details are available via our head office or please see our website for more information

London House Drug Screening

Splitting Hairs

One of our Solicitor clients practising in Family Law approached us to see if we could help with a difficult case in which, due to continued drug abuse, a mother had lost custody of her child some time previously.

In an effort to regain custody, she had to undergo a rehabilitation programme and then prove that she was clean. Desperately wanting her child back, and knowing that she could not continue as she was, she underwent the rehabilitation and proceeded to keep off the drugs. Her Solicitor now needed to prove she was clean.

We were instructed to facilitate the testing of the subject and this was done by taking a 3cm sample of hair. Each centimetre of hair retains chemicals found in drugs over a 1 month period, so we had a 3 month history of any drug taking. The sample was submitted for comprehensive testing for a number of drugs and came back negative for all tests. The mother had done what she said she would and was reunited with her child.

London House News

Our newest Franchise Owner, Carole Hender, has now completed her training and is up and running covering the HR & WR (Hereford & Worcester) postcodes. 

Carole was originally a graphic designer then lecturer.  She has experience of running her own business as company director and most recently has worked on a research project at the University of Worcester. Welcome aboard.

Carole's contact details can be found on her web pages:

 London House Services Hereford and Worcester

We would also like to express our thanks to John and Alison Whitewood of London House Services Taunton. They kindly hosted the first London House Golf Day at the wonderful Weston Super Mare course and the day was a  great success. The day was attended by representatives of London House and clients of our Taunton office. We look forward to many more of these over the coming years.

You asked us.........

"I believe that your work is typically debt related, are all of your clients in the finance sector?"

Most of our work is indeed from the finance sector (and the associated legal providers to that industry) but we have a broad range of clients both in finance and outside of it. Because we offer a range of investigative services we are used by a number of clients across a range of industries. Without being specific, examples of our client base would be:

• Banks, Building Societies, Finance Houses
• Solicitors - Litigation, Debt Recovery, Family, Employment
• Insolvency Practitioners, Accountants
• Local Authorities
• Fee paying schools, Universities
• Housing Associations 
• Government Agencies
• Insurance Companies
• SME's as well as Large Corporates
• Breweries
• Credit Unions

To name but a few!