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Email to [email protected] a Confidentiality Agreement Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 3EN. 0151 357 3828 1 If you would like a leaflet or to try our services, please ring Geraldine direct on magazine ~ No.56 July 2006 Page clerksroom 0151№ 10 The Technology Centre,355 Ellesmere Port, Cheshire,4433 CH65 3EN Tel: 0151 355 4433 Fax: 0151 355 9165 Email: [email protected] Advertisement Gill Butchard 5-A-Side Football Competition Principal of Butchard Associates The Clerksroom Cup The annual 5-a-side barristers and solicitors tournament took place on Saturday 3rd June in Liverpool. I was Do you have a Mailshot or saddened to read the fixture list and to discover that Marketing Event to Organise? only two chambers, Sedan House, Chester and Young Street, Manchester had entered. Surely this is a missed Are you snowed under, and have opportunity to mix with solicitors. The firms who entered from the North West make an impressive list. no time to deal with it? 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