Sue and I were married on 1st July 1994. Meanwhile all this time Mrs Low had hung around the company. She was doing some personnel work, but understood nothing of the business of the company and had little involvement. She was however always pestering me over her proposed remuneration, however. I told her nothing about getting married, and she only found out a couple of days before. I don't think she was too happy. Hardly had we got married, 6 days in fact, when Sue's former husband had us round the divorce courts arguing about the maintenance payments for Nadine. After all this, Mrs Low really turned the heat on about what her remuneration should be. We had a whole day with her and the accountant in the middle of July and made an agreement which I wasn't at all happy with, as I felt it went far to far in her favour.
Mrs Low departs
By the time we came to the company year end at September 1994, Mrs Low, still not satisfied with the agreement of July and signed in August, was demanding a bonus of some £20,000 - this for about 3 hours attendance a month (during which, I later discovered, she had spent the time maligning me). Fairly early on I appointed Sue a director of the company. Mrs Low (who had been a director since November 1992) did not really object. However we had both forgotten than the August 1994 agreement was to be terminated if another director was appointed. She continued to demand huge amount of money, and when she didn't get it, stormed out, leaving Sue and myself speechless. She attempted to blackmail me at one point by attempting to raise two issues affecting the company. There followed the most huge and horrible litigation. It was unfortunately exacerbated by what proved to be the mind-boggling incompetence of the law firm I was using, and was to go on for about three years. I sacked the firm in 1996, appointing another solicitor. Unfortunately she was to prove dishonest as well as incompetent, and blew the case when it came to trial in April 1997. She was struck off for dishonesty in 2011.