Grindstone Ventures has launched a $6.5m (R100m) fund dedicated to seed funding predominantly South African innovative technology startups who have completed, or are part, of its Grindstone Accelerator programme, which is a growth engineer for participating startups, and acts as an early due-diligence mechanism for the new fund. Grindstone’s team: L to R: Andrea Bohmert, …
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Divorcing spouses often wonder how to get what you want in divorce mediation. Divorce mediation can feel scary and threatening, and defenses can go way up. But one thing I’ve learned in the 20+ years of being a divorce mediator is, what a party thinks they want when they start the mediation process may not …
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Kevin Healy, solicitor at Comyn Kelleher Tobin, provides an overview of coming changes to the practice and procedure of civil litigation in the High Court. A variety of reforms to the practice and procedure of civil litigation in the Superior Courts is due to commence on 13 November 2021 through the introduction of the Statutory Instrument …
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I’ve been corresponding with a reader who has been divorced for several years, and was recently in a relationship for well over a year, which she thought was happy, healthy, and loving. Until her boyfriend broke up with her via text, causing to write to me: “I feel broken…” The advice I am offering is …
On April 12, 2021, the SEC’s Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, John Coates, and Acting Chief Accountant, Paul Munter, issued a joint statement (“Statement”) highlighting concerns about the accounting treatment of warrants issued in conjunction with special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”).[1] Initial funding for a SPAC often includes warrants that have typically …
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Isn’t the concept of being divorced with kids kind of ironic? Think about it. You and your spouse decide you don’t want to live together any longer, you want to get divorced, you don’t want to be a couple, and chances are the amount of resentment, anger and animosity you have towards each other is …
On average around 4,300 cases a week are heard in the family courts in England and Wales – adding up to a total of 224,902 last year. It is estimated that 62% of cases involve allegations of domestic abuse. Almost a quarter are disputes between separating or separated couples, usually over their children. For the past three years, …
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Earlier this month, proceedings opened in Austria in a civil suit brought against the authorities by the widow and son of a man who died of Covid-19 after staying in Ischgl, the ski resort widely regarded as having hosted a super-spreader event early in the pandemic. The week before, former French health minister Agnès Buzyn …
Improvements in technology and access to flexible funding arrangements are making group actions more popular routes to justice for UK consumers and corporates alike. Bringing a claim as part of a group with the same cause of action is gaining popularity in the UK. Often confused with US “class action” law suits, where very …
Julie Katz, a highly experienced intellectual property litigator, remarks on how she has witnessed this shift in attorney attitudes first-hand and offers her insights as to how and why it should be reversed. How have you observed incivility manifesting in intellectual property litigation? I have observed and experienced a high level of incivility first hand …
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