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World Leading Queen’s Honours Enter the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in her Diamond Jubilee year, to achieve the recognition you deserve The Queen’s Award for Enterprise (QAE) is an award that signifies a high level of excellence in different categories of industry. There are currently four categories of achievement. These are International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (Social Mobility). Angus Campbell, Her Majesty’s LordLieutenant of Dorset says, “I have been honoured to present a number of these awards in varied places of business across the County and I have been amazed at the variety and excellence of the successful organisations. “The one thing they all have in common is that these winners have found that, being able to advertise themselves as winners of this prestigious and much sought-after award, is not only a source of great satisfaction and pride among the workforce of a company but makes a significant difference to the successful promotion of their businesses.” Winning a Queen’s Award is one of the most effective ways of growing your business. Demonstrating to potential customers, partners and investors that you are better than your competitors by receiving such a significant award from The Queen can add real value to your business. The award has a life of five years in which the logo can be used, and a flag flown. Nomination is by the business itself and work has to be more news online - www.dorsetchamber.co.uk/news
done in supplying the detailed information that is needed, but all those who have succeeded agree that it was well worth the trouble taken. The award opens for entry on 1st May 2022 www.awardsintelligence.co.uk/queensawards-enterprise
Following decades of campaigning, the Divorce Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 has finally brought an end to ‘fault based’ divorce. On April 6th, 2022, ‘No Fault Divorce’ officially became law. The main objective of the legislation is to make the process smoother and avoid what had become, in many cases, a counterintuitive exercise. Under the previous ‘faultbased’ divorce, couples had to wait two years and rely on the ‘two-year separation’ in order to avoid attributing blame to each other. If the parties wanted certainty by way of a financial order reflecting what they had agreed, and certainly if there was any pension sharing/earmarking of pensions accumulated, then one of the parties would have to be the “wronged party” either through suffering unreasonable behaviour or citing adultery of the other party. Parties who had drifted apart and felt it was better to accept this, rather than let matters get worse, were told that one of them had to be blamed. More often than not, this added unnecessary tension and friction between the parties. It was often a shock to clients that because they remained married even after separation, relationships with someone new could be adultery. Often both parties had moved on and were beginning new relationships. Divorce lawyers working with their clients are now able to end ‘the blame game’. No-fault divorce doesn’t require evidence of wrongdoing by either party. One party, or both parties jointly, can provide a statement that the marriage has ‘irretrievably broken down’. There is no need to make allegations or detail conduct. If you want to find out more about no-fault divorce and how best to work towards resolving children and finances within divorce, please navigate to the divorce page on our website or get in touch using the details below. simmins@frettens.co.uk | 01202 499255 www.frettens.co.uk
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