Author: indigotree

Confused about what you need to do to legally and religiously divorce?  Make sure you take some legal advice as the consequences of not divorcing properly can be catastrophic. You don’t want to end up re-marrying before you are divorced and thus be committing an offence in this country! If you were married in a […]

Well the big day came and even if you didn’t wake up to find your house strewn with red roses, you can’t have avoided the fact that it was Valentine’s Day.  There was one sure way to notice, and that was the number of shops selling Easter Eggs and Mother’s Day cards, with anything romantic […]

If Valentine’s Day is supposed to be the romantic day of the year, apparently 10th February is the least romantic day of the year, as it’s the day couples are most likely to break up.  Perhaps it’s all the talk of love and relationships that makes people re-evaluate their feelings.  On the other hand, maybe […]

Most of the women I know complain that their partners are no good at picking gifts for them, and they either end up with things they don’t want, or they go out and buy their own.  Of course this can work find at birthdays and Christmas, but come Valentines day, do you really want to […]

People always get suspicious when you offer them something for nothing.  Perhaps that means they’ve had a bad experience.  Or they just always assume that there is a catch. Well here is a genuine offer of a free lunch. I’m giving a talk on company law on Thursday 3 March in St Pauls.  I’m going […]

I was at the tube station earlier in the week, watching people sigh with relief when they read that the strike had been called off.  For many, 24 hours of industrial action can equal several days of misery trying to get in and out of London. For some, however, it can be an excuse to […]

The reason this comes up is because people often come to me with contacts that say one thing, but are actually something else, such as saying someone is self employed whereas the reality is that they are employees with all the rights and obligations that go with it. Most importantly if you dismiss someone that […]

If you are employing staff then you are hard working entrepreneurs, probably running small business and trying hard to keep your head above a tidal wave of red tape and taxation. Recent reports from Reuters and Essex University revealed that corporation tax payments by the UK’s largest companies have fallen by more than 20% since […]

We’ve all been there. We’ve all had a guy say he’ll call us, or had a girl say “it’s not you, its me”. We’ve all had our hearts broken by people who have made false promises to us, or misled others by saying we’re willing to go out with them when we’d rather watch paint […]

My 9 year old son and I were having breakfast this morning in our usual cafe.  A group of men I recognise from other mornings came in, and sat close by, and began a very loud conversation.  This is not uncommon.  It’s also not uncommon for them to use horrible language which I find unnecessary […]