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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
16 October 2017
Divorce in the digital age - poacher or gamekeeper?
Let’s face it, we are all amateur sleuths these days, and divorce lawyers are no exception. We use the internet to find a restaurant and a hotel. Inevitably, we also have a look at our clients or their spouses and partners at the beginning of a new case. There have been some disasters, among others an apocryphal story where a divorce lawyer with a new client took a peek at the husband on LinkedIn….and oops! - that was the first news the husband had that his wife was considering a divorce. Everybody knows that the inverted iPhone at home is the tell-tale of infidelity (it avoids the possibility of a spouse seeing the impossible to explain “see you tomorrow at the Travelodge, Big Boy” or similar).
10 October 2017
Maintenance pending suit and interim maintenance - where divorce meets poker
In a story picked up all over the world, The Times of India reported that a husband had been ordered to pay “a wapping RS four lakl (approximately £4,800) every month” pending the final decision in the divorce.
22 September 2017
Adultery, blame and divorce - the end is nigh?
Sometimes, it just seems like everyone is doing it. This weekend, Ulrika Jonsson expressed her regrets for cheating on her first husband; the ex-husband of Strictly’s judge Shirley Ballas accused Shirley of “cheating on him with at least 10 men during a stormy marriage”; and comedian Kevin Hart apologised to his family for putting himself “in a bad environment where only bad things happen and they did” in circumstances where someone was trying to make “financial gain” from his actions. To top it, all a new divorce form was introduced by the English Government in the summer with a dedicated section for the details of “the person your partner committed adultery with”.
21 September 2017
Divorce and coercive & controlling behaviour - Harassment’s big brother?
This summer, The Telegraph reported the disciplinary action taken against PC Wayne Hodge and found that “he was behaving in a controlling and coercive manner”. Apparently, he banned girlfriends from talking to men, wearing red nail polish or accepting Tesco deliveries if he was not at home.
13 September 2017
Contrats prénuptiaux franco-britanniques – les mythes de la protection outre-Manche et le contrat prénuptial global
Des couples français et de nationalités différentes me consultent régulièrement pour me demander quels sont les contrats de protection qui peuvent être établis avant le mariage. Ils sont souvent surpris d’apprendre qu’il n’est pas possible de rédiger un contrat prénuptial qui sera exécutoire dans le monde entier, où que le couple s’installe à l’avenir.
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