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Welcome to our newsletter for in-house lawyers, keeping you abreast of key business and legal updates.

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January 2025

  • Security of Tenure reimagined – speak now or forever hold your lease
  • Employment law changes 2025: guide for HR and line managers
  • Business interruption insurance – permission to appeal refused
  • Banter or sexual harassment? What lessons can employers learn from the Greg Wallace saga?
  • Environmental news update
  • Managing Mental Health for in-house counsel and their teams

November 2024

  • Sexual harassment Employment Tribunal statistics reveal seven per cent annual rise
  • Budget 2024: continued support for Freeports and Investment Zones
  • Cryptocurrency – recognised as property under English law
  • National Security and Investments Act: an unexpected trap for businesses
  • Environmental news update
  • Stricter oversight and training initiatives to address skill shortages and net migration

September 2024

  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
  • The future of litigation funding: further delays and uncertainties
  • Employees will be able to claim additional compensation if their right to disconnect is "repeatedly breached"
  • What is a sustainable building?
  • UK Attractiveness Index Summer 2024

July 2024

  • Labour's plan to make work pay: key issues for HR and businesses
  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive incoming
  • New anti-greenwashing rule
  • Do you need to re-think your D&I strategy? Independent review concludes employers are wasting thousands on ineffective training
  • General election – the litigation edition

May 2024

  • Responsible AI in recruitment: government issues new guidance for employers
  • The importance of supply chain responsibility
  • UK: data protection law reform – is an SRI the same or different from a DPO?
  • Should employers carry out a “general workforce” consultation even if they are making less than 20 people redundant?
  • SFO five-year strategic plan unveiled
  • Understanding greenwashing – be bold but be sure

March 2024

  • Uncovering the concept of 'bluewashing'
  • The top five employment cases that will shape 2024
  • Supply chain disruption as a result of war and conflict – is your business protected?
  • UK trade: December 23 data reveals decrease in both imports and exports whilst annual figures remain positive
  • Environmental news round up

January 2024

  • Clarity on orders to mediate
  • Employment law changes 2024
  • Government adjusts salary increase for partner visas following nationwide criticism
  • Use your trade marks, or lose them: the Ferrari Testarossa case study
  • Environmental weekly news round up – 5 January 2024

November 2023

  • Boardroom diversity declines in top UK companies, despite positive ESG progress
  • Apprenticeship contracts: six expensive traps for the unwary
  • Webinar recording: achieving Net Zero – what you need to know
  • Extended Producer Responsibility: Insights from the EPR consultation response

September 2023

  • The challenges facing the UK business sector: staying ahead of the game
  • Data breach – essential steps to protect pensions information and data
  • Fixed recoverable costs in commercial litigation: a blessing or a curse for businesses?
  • Direct Line ordered to pay menopausal employee £65,000 after failing to adjust its performance management processes
  • Identifying greenwashing in your supply chain

July 2023

  • The most attractive UK cities for overseas investment
  • ESG: investors call on businesses to reduce plastic use or face financial consequences
  • Another warning to employers: recognise that gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act or prepare to be sued
  • Non-compete clauses in employment contracts. The future? Well eventually!
  • PGA Tour/LIV Golf merger could lead to a raft of anti-competitive investigations

May 2023

  • CMA launches campaign to tackle misleading sales tactics
  • Is diversity and inclusion the key to unlocking growth and productivity in the UK?
  • UK cyber security breach survey 2023
  • ESG: are parent companies liable for their subsidiaries' impact?

March 2023

  • Cookies, consent and banner compliance: what organisations need to know about the European Data Protection Board's new best practice guidance
  • Cyber security: staying secure in a digital age
  • Employment law changes 2023: guide for HR and line managers
  • Cross-border M&A activity into the UK remains strong despite Q4 blip
  • ESG services for your business

January 2023

  • The top five employment cases that will shape 2023
  • UK City Tracker Report – January 2023
  • Tesco facing UK lawsuit over F&F working conditions
  • Why you should include micro-aggression in your diversity and equality training (and tips on how to do it)
  • Business Interruption Insurance revisited

November 2022

  • Being alive to the warning signs is so crucial in a business crisis
  • Pregnant women and new parents to get added protection against being made redundant
  • Net Zero strategy – another U-turn?
  • Brace yourself: new bill may fundamentally change employment law by the end of 2023

September 2022

  • Cost of living crisis: union calls on government to increase NMW to £15.00 per hour
  • In the midst of the cost of living crisis, what do businesses need to consider?
  • What can employers learn from the latest case on gender-critical discrimination?
  • New report calls for menopause to be added to the list of 'protected characteristics' under the Equality Act
  • Register of overseas entities – six key questions answered

July 2022

  • How will the new UK vertical block exemption (VABEO) impact your relationships with your distributors?
  • Unlawful inducement: how to stay on the right side of the law
  • Full steam ahead for net zero
  • Save your USP: withstanding the cost of living crisis and disputing increases in supplier costs
  • Long COVID and disability: what HR need to know
  • Watch now: calculating your carbon footprint

May 2022

  • The office isn’t dead, but its purpose is changing
  • A smart approach to ESG – practical tips for GCs
  • Shift patterns, childcare and indirect sex discrimination claims
  • The inevitable trequel? ‘Schrems III’, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, and a question of durability

March 2022

  • Climate change litigation – a growing global trend
  • The Great Resignation and restrictive covenants: a reminder for businesses to take legal advice before employing individuals
  • Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate Related Financial Disclosure) Regulations
  • COVID-19 adjusted right to work checks to continue until September: what you need to know (and do)
  • A costs conundrum – successful defendant recovers nothing

November 2021

  • Government explains how new right to take carer’s leave will work
  • What you need to know about the National Disability Strategy
  • Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers: sustaining green claims throughout the supply chain
  • Government announces ‘outcomes-based’ approach to granting UK GDPR data adequacy status to countries prioritised as international data partners
  • Legal report highlights growing role of GCs in moving ESG up the corporate agenda

September 2021

  • Pension Schemes Act 2021 – new criminal offences and higher financial penalties
  • Beware greenwashing: sustaining environmental claims in advertising in 2021
  • Money laundering regulations: consultation ahead of new legislation ends in October
  • Will menopause be added to list of “protected characteristics” in the Equality Act?
  • Government’s vision to transform disabled peoples’ working lives: will anything change?
  • Live event: legal vs communications – are they on opposing sides in a crisis?
  • Live event: diversity in the law – my journey, with Stephanie Boyce

July 2021

  • Thinking about adopting a hybrid working pattern? 12 things to consider
  • Contractual obligations and mental health
  • Employee with gender critical beliefs was protected under the Equality Act 2010
  • Two recent judgments increase pressure on UK government to respond to MEPs’ rejection of the Commission’s Draft Data Adequacy decision
  • Live event: finding effective and practical solutions to disputes post-Brexit

May 2021

  • WFH: Working from home from away
  • Smaller towns and cities will be fastest growing post-COVID-19 economies in 2021
  • Right to work checks – COVID-19 flexibility due to end on 16 May
  • Held to ransom by a cyberattack
  • Winding-up petition ban extended, but concerns remain

March 2021

  • HR and employment news in brief
  • Modern slavery reporting requirements
  • Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and real estate – now firmly on the agenda
  • An adequate draft – European Commission (EC) publish draft UK adequacy decision

December 2020

  • Dealing with the consequences of a disrupted supply chain
  • International network wins prestigious award
  • Act fast if you want your invoices paid
  • Brexit and Intellectual Property
  • Bullying: should you excuse the behaviour of someone who says they didn’t mean to upset colleagues?

Winter 2019

  • Employment changes 2019: Guide for in-house lawyers
  • Google punished with £44 million fine under GDPR
  • Does what happens in the board room, stay in the board room?
  • Directors and officers insurance – a necessity for businesses

Autumn 2018

  • Your Word May No Longer be Your Bond
  • A Tale of Two Sides – An Insurance Warning to Tenants
  • Facebook Slapped With Maximum Fine Following Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal
  • Will the Rights of UK Workers be Diluted in a No Deal Brexit?
  • In-house Champion – Georgie Collins

Spring 2018

  • In-house Champion: Danny Revitt
  • Supreme Court Implies New Term in All Contracts of Employment
  • Unexplained Wealth Orders
  • Initial Coin Offerings: Fad or a New Form of Corporate Financing?
  • How 5 April 2018 Tax Changes will Increase the Cost of Terminations

Winter 2017

  • The new Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims - a time-wasters’ charter?
  • Taming the beast – proposed new rules to manage disclosure
  • Identity Fraud: When the money has disappeared, who pays the price?
  • Preparing for GDPR: what you need to be concerned about from an HR perspective
  • Complying with the advertising regulations when engaging influencers

Autumn 2017

  • The role of a Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) – Does your business need to appoint one and who should it be?
  • Has mediation had its heyday?
  • Sense and severability – when does a restrictive covenant become totally unenforceable?
  • A third of UK firms failing to publish modern slavery statements

Summer 2017

 

  • Costs Recovery and Litigation Funding
  • Getting Investment Ready
  • The Great Divorce: Brexit, workers’ rights and the Great Repeal Bill
  • “The Privileged Few” – ENRC v. SFO and the erosion of legal privilege
  • Putting personal development at the heart of a successful in-house career

Spring 2017

  • How will Brexit affect your commercial contracts
  • The GDPR race has begun - is your business going to be ready in time
  • Brexit - how will trade be affected
  • UK employers must be innovative to prevent a workforce shortage

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