Yes, according to new research published today by Creditsafe.
They say that 33% of British firms are planning to stop using cheques to pay other businesses within the next 12 months, and that 11% are planning to stop accepting cheques altogether!
Instead, they plan to rely on direct bank transfers (such as BACS) and debit [...]
It’s not often I feel sorry for the Director of Public Prosecutions. After all, he’s on a fat salary, index linked pension, and if he keeps his nose clean, a knighthood and further professional advancement. And by all accounts, he isn’t required to do much other than pontificate from the margins and delegate to his [...]
It’s not often I praise politicians. For the most part, like Mark Anthony, I come to bury them, but I feel a word of support for Alan Johnson is in order.
For those of you still dizzy from the reshuffle carousel, it may have escaped your notice that Alan Johnson is the new Home Secretary, replacing [...]
In one form or another, trial by jury has been with us for the best part of eight hundred years. The principle that a man charged with high crimes and misdemeanours should be tried by a jury of his peers is the bulwark of a civilised society, or so they say.
The statistics are interesting, if [...]
A good education is priceless. Of all the tools needed to equip us on our journey through life, education is undoubtedly primus inter partes, more important perhaps than good parenting, although the two generally go hand in hand.
This country, more than any other, boasts a two class system of education. There is private education, provided [...]
The recent tragic spate of air crashes was foremost in my mind when I boarded a Squeezijet flight to the Algarve. For my part, I find air travel an ordeal at the best of times. I’m like a fine wine, I don’t travel well. It’s not just the way in which passengers are herded from [...]
My current Kindle reading on airplanes is “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. I found an interesting idea in the book. Early in 2007, Crédit Mutuel, a French bank, began an ad campaign directing viewers to a website titled: “If I were a banker.” The authors [...]
Under the, now revoked, CFA Regulations 2000 there was a duty to advise a client whether the legal representative considered that the client was insured under an existing contract of insurance (BTE) before the CFA was entered into (Regulation 4(2)(c)). Failure to do this would render the CFA invalid.
Since the Court of Appeal decision [...]
UFL Set to Play in E. Hartford on November 12
As part of the UFL’s inaugural season, the Florida Tuskers and New York Sentinels will play at Rentschler Field on November 12. The game signifies the possibility that the upstart league will field a team in Hartford in its second year.
UConn football is off that week, but will [...]
Earlier this week I received an email from Jodi McDougall, a Seattle lawyer I coach. She said: “Just wanted to let you know I’m seriously in the zone today. Almost as good as Tiger was this weekend!”
I love getting emails from lawyers who are really enjoying what they are doing. What did Jodi mean [...]