Some of East Anglia’s top bankers have admitted that they “got it wrong” when they met with the Federation for Small Businesses and local MPs at Mundford on 13 January 2012.
Several spoke of hiring ‘relationship managers’ after hearing how bad their banks’ relationships with their business customers had become. Several appeared genuinely shocked at what [...]
On 13 January 2012, nearly 100 people gathered for a half-day summit on the banking situation in the East of England. 10 MPs and representatives from the top five banks (HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Santander) met to discuss a variety of issues. These included interest rates being too high, customer [...]
Happy New Year and welcome to 2012.
This blog has been sadly neglected in recent times, for which we apologise, but a new year is a good excuse for a new start and so we shall begin afresh.
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Beware all IT contractors and customers of IT contractors. There has been a recent and significant case – Kingsway Hall Hotel Limited –v- Red Sky (Hounslow) Limited.
Red Sky provided a management system to Kingsway which it was said to be able to handle the obvious needs of a hotel, such as reservations, check-ins and invoices. [...]
In a stunning twist to recent events today, Mr de Pledge finally cracked under the pressure and relented to the demands of kidnappers threatening to slowly dismember his beloved Johann.
Details are emerging slowly as Mr de Pledge is reluctant to speak to the press and merely said he was happy that Johann was back in [...]
Johann kidnap image
The prized souvenir lovingly purchased from the tackiest gift shop in all of Switzerland by Mr de Pledge, Johann Sebastian Gnome, was snatched recently in a daring kidnap raid.
Left in the place where Johann had bravely cheered on his foundering football team in the World Cup, was a chilling ransom demand and menacing [...]
Johann – world cup
In May Paul and Peter went to the EAK AGM held in St Gallen Switzerland. St Gallen is a small City about an hour from Zurich and the hospitality extended was wonderful.
St Gallen had its share of what one would expect to see in Switzerland such as Banks, Chocolate Shops (including the [...]
The Europäische Anwaltskooperation (EAK) is an Association of small law firms mainly in German speaking countries, but with a number of “Ausländer” members. Having many business connections in Germany, Fowler de Pledge was invited to join the EAK in 1991.
Membership gives us access, on behalf of clients who operate in Europe, to good local advice [...]
Whilst reading the latest IoD Director Magazine, we came across an article entitled, “Talking Tough” about deal making. Point 10 was a quote from Jeremy Shaw the Chairman of a marketing agency and is headed “Keep lawyers under control.”
“Lawyers do a wonderful job of telling you what might go wrong,” says Shaw,”but the danger is [...]
We saw this wonderful article in the Obiter section of the Law Society Gazette and thought that we would share it with you in full.
“Obiter is grateful to professor Phil Thomas of Cardiff Law School for sending in a new snippet from the Hindu English languages newspapers in India. A four-foot snake slithered into a [...]