The strategic utility of joint ventures and partnerships in difficult and uncertain times Author: Henry Clarke Businesses looking for growth and profit during uncertain and difficult times need to review their operations, markets, products and business models. Part of the outcome of such reviews are likely to be projects that are suitable for joint ventures...Read More
Right to Work Checks – In the UK, in a Pandemic, in 2021 Speaker: Adam McGlynn In this webinar: What sanctions could be imposed for employing an employee without the right to work?What is the benefit of conducting adequate checks?Have there been adjustments to right to work check obligations to account for COVID restrictions?How will...Read More
Companies Provided Additional Protection from Insolvency Key Contact: Hugh Hitchcock Author: Joe Smith The measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (“CIGA 2020”) aimed to protect businesses from the financial strain of COVID-19 by introducing a range of different measures. Some of the temporary measures in focus in this note, which are...Read More
The Building Safety Fund: 31 December 2020 Deadline Key Contact: Jennifer Butcher Author: Abby Stephens In the March 2020 budget, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the UK government would provide £1 billion in 2020-2021 to support the remediation of unsafe non-ACM (aluminium composite material) cladding systems on residential buildings 18 metres and over in both...Read More
New Standard Contractual Clauses from the European Commission Author: Lowri Morgan-Macdonald The European Commission recently published new draft standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to countries outside the EEA. The new SCCs are intended to modernise the currently outdated SCCs and to provide more flexibility, for example by allowing the clauses...Read More
GDPR at the end of the transition period Author: Lowri Morgan-Macdonald When the transition period comes to an end after 31 December 2020, the ‘EU GDPR’ will no longer apply to the UK. However, the GDPR will be brought into UK law as the ‘UK GDPR’ to sit alongside the current Data Protection Act 2018....Read More
Further Extensions to the Protections from Forfeiture for Non-Payment of Rent and Recovery of Rent by CRAR for Business Tenancies Key Contact: Jennifer Butcher Author: Abby Stephens On 9 December 2020, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that business owners affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will be protected from eviction until the end of March 2021....Read More
Acuity advises Brickability on two acquisitions in a week Key Contact: Beverley Jones Author: Tom Saunderson Acuity Law is pleased to have advised long-standing client Brickability Group plc on their acquisitions of McCann Limited (McCann) and Bathroom Barn Limited (Bathroom Barn), both closing in the space of one week and building upon an already-impressive string...Read More
Employment Status – Lessons from the Tax Tribunal Speakers: Adam McGlynn, Dan Evans Key points of this talk were: Obligations to determine employment status and the IR35 burdenThe different status types and why they are importantThe legal tests for determining employment statusLessons from HMRC’s Upper Tribunal success in the recent Kickabout case “A worker works...Read More
The Equality Act 2010 defines the protected characteristic of gender reassignment as follows: “A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes...Read More
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