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Your Website of the Month: How to Smash Your Goals in 2022 (Even If It Is Already February)
“New Year’s Resolutions” are notoriously easy to make but hard to keep, and one wonders how many are still on the radar come February each year. But perhaps February is an even better time to set...
Can Your Tenant Claim a Lockdown Rental Remission?
“It would thus be prudent that a commercial lease agreement includes a clause dealing with the risk associated with vis maior, casus fortuitus and the impossibility of performance.” (Extract from...
Directors at War: Terminating Email Access
“All is fair in love and war…and business is war." (Jasmine Kundra) When company directors are locked in dispute, one of them may be tempted to cut off the other’s access to emails and to the...
Divorce: Claiming Interim Maintenance and a Contribution to Legal Costs
Even if your marriage is collapsing around you, you might be afraid to sue for divorce because you have no money to survive on, plus you know that a hotly contested divorce might take years to...
A Victim of Sexual Harassment Must Report It “Immediately”
“…sexual harassment is a heinous and horrendous conduct since it undermines the dignity of women and the values enshrined in our Constitution.” (Extract from judgment below) Employers have a strong...
Your Website of the Month: How to Cope with Pandemic Stress as A Small Business Owner
Being an entrepreneur can be hugely rewarding, but it comes with a level of stress at the best of times, now magnified many times over by the pandemic’s uncertainties and disruptions. Of course...