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  • Employment
  • 01 December 2020

Christmas Trials & Tribulations of the HR Professional

December Christmas work parties take on new meaning over Zoom during COVID, Deborah Scales an employment associate at Clarkslegal includes a reminder of sexual harassment during virtual parties can still take place, and employers remain liable for discriminatory conduct that takes place during a work related virtual party.   

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  • Corporate and M&A
  • 26 November 2020

Exiting your business through a solvent winding up

In the fourth of our series on different stages of funding through the business life cycle, Stuart Mullins, Clarkslegal and James Hopkirk, Kreston Reeves discuss how Insolvency Legislation can help owners of solvent businesses to extract cash and other assets tax efficiently from their companies.
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  • Litigation and dispute resolution
  • 26 November 2020

Service charges: challenging a landlord’s certificate

It is very common for a commercial lease to stipulate that the landlord’s certificate stating the total cost of services provided under the lease, and the service charge payable by the tenant towards those services, is conclusive and binding on the tenant in the absence of manifest error or fraud.
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  • Litigation and dispute resolution
  • 26 November 2020

Bank transfer fraud: what is the bank’s responsibility?

‘Push Payment Fraud’ – where a fraudster deceives someone into paying money to an account controlled by that fraudster – is increasingly common.

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  • Employment
  • 26 November 2020

Restrictive covenants – employers watch out

Employers can be liable for inducing a breach of a restrictive covenant, but relying on legal advice can provide a defence as held the Court of Appeal in Allen v Dodd & Co Ltd.
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  • Employment
  • 26 November 2020

Equal Pay – where to next?

The Fawcett Society have marked Equal Pay Day – the day of the year on which women stop earning relative to men – by releasing a report warning the UK is at a crossroads on equal pay.
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  • Brexit
  • 24 November 2020

Importers and exporters– what happens after Brexit?

The end of the transition period under the Withdrawal Agreement is timed at precisely 11pm on 31 December 2020. At that moment in time, a snapshot of all EU law in existence will be imported into UK law. The UK government will simultaneously regain legislative power to enact new law which changes and diverges from EU law.

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  • Employment
  • 19 November 2020

New ruling provides health and safety detriment

Protection from health and safety detriments and the right to PPE should cover ‘workers’ as well as employees, High Court rules.
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  • Public Procurement
  • 18 November 2020

Urgent procurement in a pandemic

Depending on the value and size of the contract, a typical procurement run in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 can take anything from a few months to more than a year to conclude.
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