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  • 09 December 2020
  • Construction

NEC publishes new amendments to NEC4 suite

The NEC has published a second set of amendments to its NEC4 suite of contracts, reflecting user feedback from the industry and recent legal development. The October 2020 amendments can be found on the NEC site.

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  • 08 December 2020
  • Immigration

UK’s new immigration system from 1 January 2021

In this webinar, Clarkslegal and PKF discuss the UK’s new immigration system and the implications for businesses who have globally mobile employees.

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  • 07 December 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Annual review of corporate governance reporting

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published its annual review of corporate governance reporting against its UK Corporate Governance Code (the Code). The Code, published in its current form in 2018, provides businesses with key corporate governance recommendations.

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  • 07 December 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Government to further scrutinise transactions and investments

Last month the Government introduced the National Security and Investment Bill to the House of Commons for its first reading. The purpose of the Bill is to give the government further powers to scrutinise and, where necessary, intervene in certain business transactions if it believes national security concerns are present; this will include mergers and acquisitions.

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  • 04 December 2020
  • Employment

The rules on Acas Early Conciliation (EC) changed

The standard EC period is now 6 weeks rather than a month (but there is no longer the possibility of extending it by 2 weeks). Although this may appear to give people…

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  • 04 December 2020
  • Employment

Vicarious liability for remote Christmas parties

Festivities will be very different this year. Despite exiting a national Lockdown this week, 98.7% of the population in England find themselves in tiers 2 or 3 in the run up to Christmas.

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