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Quarterly Insights: Key Corporate & Commercial Topics – Q1 2026

15 January 2026

Join Stuart Mullins and Nicky Goringe Larkin as they discuss some of the likely implications of the Autumn Budget 2025 for those looking to buy and sell businesses.

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  • 17 January 2020
  • Employment

Minimum wage: Don’t get caught out

Government consultation on Labour Market Enforcement strategy for 2020/2021 is open until 24 January 2020. At the same time, a report by the Resolution Foundation released this month shows that, as legal minimum wage rates have risen, so has non-compliance.

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  • 17 January 2020
  • Employment

Driver subjected to sexual advances and biased grievance process was constructively dismissed

A female driver who was sexually harassed by her manager and supervisor has won her claim for constructive unfair dismissal.

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  • 17 January 2020
  • Employment

A birthday to remember? A legal secretary loses age discrimination claim after 50th birthday “well wishes”

In Munro v Sampson Coward LLP, a legal secretary claimed she was subjected to age discrimination when a colleague, who was of a similar age to her, made a comment about her 50th birthday.

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  • 15 January 2020
  • Immigration

How to meet the financial requirement for a spouse visa: Salaried and non-salaried employment FAQs

Following on from our previous blog, there are a number of sources of income which can be relied on to meet the financial requirement for a spouse visa.

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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Lending money to Directors

It is not unusual for a Company to lend money to a director of a Company, nor is it unlawful. However, there are a number of points to consider, including declarations of interest and how this sits with the constitution of the Company and a directors’ statutory duties generally and also the treatment of the loan from a tax perspective – not only for the director but the Company too.

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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Removing a Director under the Companies Act

The Companies Act 2006 contains a right for members of the Company to seek the removal of a director from office by convening a general meeting of its members and passing an ordinary resolution. This provision is seen as sacrosanct in the Companies Act 2006 – any attempt to exclude this right in the Companies articles of association would be unenforceable.