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  • 13 October 2017
  • Employment

Modern Slavery: is your organisation doing all it should to comply?

The Modern Slavery Act requires all businesses with an annual global turnover at least £36 million to produce a modern slavery statement each year. It should include details of what (if anything) the business is doing to combat modern slavery and human trafficking within its business and supply chain – both in the UK and abroad. This should be published within six months of the end of their financial year. This statement must be published on the business’ website, with a link to it in a prominent place on the homepage.
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  • 13 October 2017
  • Privacy and Data Protection

GDPR: the ICO attempts to clarify obligation to report serious data breaches

Faced with misleading press stories, the ICO has been addressing misconceptions about the GDPR by publishing myth busting blogs, including on the new requirement to report serious breaches of personal data.
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  • 10 October 2017
  • IP and Commercial

EIS and SEIS – what are these and how can you benefit?

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) are schemes run by the government offering generous tax breaks to encourage SME growth and investment in such companies.
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  • 06 October 2017
  • Employment

TUPE regulations apply even where large part of job becomes automated

In Anglo Beef Processors v Longland and Meat & Livestock Commercial Services, Mr Longland had been employed as a carcass service officer for Meat & Livestock, manually classifying carcasses in an abattoir.Mr Longland claimed at tribunal that the TUPE Regulations applied and as a result, he should transfer to Anglo Beef on the basis that the activities carried out were “fundamentally the same” both before and after the transfer
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  • 06 October 2017
  • Commercial Real Estate

Real estate fraud – help us help you to eliminate the risk

One of the biggest benefits of the digital and information age has been the increased agility in carrying transactions – these are now able to take place almost instantaneously. This increased agility has brought with it the problem of increased vulnerability – especially to the risk of fraud.
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  • 03 October 2017
  • Construction

Off-Site Goods and Materials: Legal Issues

There is no doubt that off-site manufacture is being embraced by the industry.

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  • 03 October 2017
  • Construction

A victory for common sense – actual cost relevant to compensation event assessment

A defining principle of the NEC3 is that the parties should deal with issues as they arise and not save these up to the end. Hence the provision in the standard form contract allowing for forecast assessments of compensation events. However, this principle can get forgotten when the parties fail to comply with the contractual machinery and timeframes or the compensation events are disputed. A case from earlier this year in the Northern Ireland courts has looked at the question of whether actual costs are relevant to the assessment of compensation events: Northern Ireland Housing Executive...
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  • 19 September 2017
  • Construction

Modern slavery in construction supply chains: does your business comply

‘Modern Slavery’ is a term which encapsulates slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, and human trafficking.

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  • 15 September 2017
  • Employment

ACAS publishes guidance on supporting parents with ill or premature babies

ACAS has published guidance providing important information for both employees and employers in relation to premature births or full-term births where a child is ill.
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  • 15 September 2017
  • Immigration

Establishing a business presence in the UK – the sole representative visa

Our immigration lawyers have recently seen an increase in enquiries from successful overseas business owners who wish to establish a business presence in the UK. Such individuals have explored the Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa route but either do not want to live in the UK or do not wish to make a large investment, such as the £200,000 required under the Entrepreneur route.
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  • 12 September 2017
  • Corporate and M&A

CG Archive Acquisition Marks 30th for OASIS Group

Clarkslegal, led by corporate lawyers Jon Chapman and Esma Kilic, have advised OASIS Group on all of their UK acquisitions.
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  • 12 September 2017
  • Employment

New requirements for companies to reveal pay ratio between bosses and workers

The government has announced a series of reforms aimed at increasing boardroom accountability and enhancing trust in business. These are a partial implementation of pledges in the Conservative manifesto for the May 2017 general election, which itself was much less alarming to businesses than Theresa May’s July 2016 Conservative party leadership campaign pledge to have employees represented on company boards.The proposals are that, on an annual basis around 900 listed companies will have to publish and justify the pay ratio between CEOs and their average UK worker
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