By Sarah Booth The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has updated its guidance for employers on preventing illegal working in the UK. On 28 October 2013, the UKBA published an updated version of its full guide for employers on preventing illegal working in the UK. This new version replaces the previous one published in May 2012. […]
By Adam Hartley Zero-hours contracts have hardly been out of the news in recent weeks. The overwhelming majority of the media coverage has been negative, suggesting that zero-hours contracts are exploitative of workers and should be outlawed. The pressure gauge has risen to such an extent that in September business secretary Vince Cable announced that […]
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has fined two Addleshaw Goddard partners £5,000 each after they were investigated over discrepancies relating to disbursements. Partners Emmett Peters and David Wilson faced the SDT today after the pair were referred to the tribunal by the SRA. They were represented at the tribunal by Fountain Court’s Tim Dutton QC. […]
DLA Piper has released the 4 November 2013 issue of its Health Alert, which focuses on judgments, legislation and reports in the health sector. If you are registered and logged in to the site, click on the link below to read the DLA Piper briefing. If not, please register or sign in with your details […]
Paul Hastings has been in the news for less than great reasons recently – you may recall partner Tom O’Riordan left the firm’s London office after he was found to have lied about his education. Now the firm is back in the news for happier reasons, at least happier for Paul Hastings. As we reported […]
DLA Piper has appointed Tony Lopez as a partner in the structured finance team, part of the finance and projects group. Lopez will be based in the firm’s London office. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Lopez was a partner at Clifford Chance in London from 2011 and prior to that Clifford Chance in New York […]
By Kevin McCavish Draft legislation amending the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) and the law relating to collective redundancies has now been published and is expected to come into force in January 2014. The government consulted earlier this year on proposed changes to TUPE aimed at simplifying the legislation. The government published […]
It is common in commercial guarantee agreements for co-guarantors to have joint and several liability, so that each of them become ‘on the hook’, collectively and individually, pursuant to one contractual document. Dunbar (the bank) had loaned £2,969,000 to a development company to help finance completion of a development site in Sunderland. Part of the […]
The regulations will amend existing secondary legislation with effect from 1 November 2013 so that: employers can use an alternative definition of pay reference period based on tax periods for both assessing an individual job holders status and whether a scheme is a qualifying scheme; the easement to the scheme administration regulations that extends the […]
One of the main Jackson reforms to affect civil litigation, which came into force in April 2013, was the abolition of the recoverability of after-the-event (ATE) insurance premiums and success fees in conditional fee agreements (CFAs) from the losing (paying) party. This applies to ATE policies and CFAs entered into after 1 April, save in relation […]
Wragge & Co brings you the latest on the cases and issues affecting the lending industry. So long as the paying bank under the Clearing House Automated Payment System (CHAPS) pays in accordance with the client’s instructions as to account number and sort code, the bank will not be liable to repay sums transferred into […]
The South African government has announced plans to limit the right of foreign investors to commence international arbitration against the government. This bulletin considers the announcement, the reasons behind it and the implications for existing and potential foreign investors and their rights to initiate international arbitration proceedings against South Africa… If you are registered and […]