8 March is International Women’s Day. (International Men’s Day is 19 November). There’s no getting around it. I am a woman, in business, in a field which has for hundreds of years been populated solely by men because they are men and the options were denied to women so it is important to celebrate …
‘O’ is for…..
Online. T’internet. World Wide Web (that’s an old one). On the line. What did we do without it? I tell my Teenage Units about having to plug the internet cable into the phone socket in the wall and wait for the crackling and pinging as the computer was connecting. Then they ask me if we had colour …
‘N’ is for needs…….
The needs of the parties is one of the factors to be considered by the court under the checklist set out in section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. It is a legal term and might not mean what you think it does. What is says is the court shall have regard to: 'The financial needs, obligations …