Summary The UK Government has recently announced the zero-rating for supplies of PPE equipment and E-Publications from 1 May 2020.  E-Publications means electronically supplied books, brochures, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, journals a...

Welcome to our June UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade union membership rises to 6.5 million reversing recent falling trends PCS and TSSA unions move closer towards mergers with Unite  ...

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EU appears open-minded about pay between assignment contracts Having inherited the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 on taking office, the UK Government had p...

Welcome to our UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news • Government independent review of industrial disputes• An update on labour law and the European Court of Human RightsUK labour case l...

Welcome to our December UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news Working time reform more likely Politics, next year’s General Election and labour law – an unhealthy mix? UK labour cas...

Welcome to our March UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news BIS pushes ahead with new trade union membership assurance scheme. Unite contemplates acting outside the law. Bookings being taken for Ever...

Welcome to our September UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news• The Trade Union Bill• Trade union about-turn on the EU referendum• Industrial action: recent ...

Welcome to our December UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade Union Act implementation: new regulations and Codes of Practice The gig economy: ‘self-employed’ seek trade un...

Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade Union Act changes to industrial action law: now in force Public sector facility time reporting in force from 1 April 2017 Pub...

Court of Appeal upholds single collective bargaining unit for only 1.2% of employees in an otherwise non-unionised employer In a significant development for employers, particularly those without recognised trade unions and those with dispersed busin...

Employers are being urged to do more to look after the mental health of their workforce with the publication today of the outcome of the Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers. Estimating that poor mental health costs employers betwe...

Welcome to our December UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Responding to walkouts by gig workers and contractors Central Arbitration Committee annual report records drop in recognition ap...

Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: Lessons learnt Chocks away: Despite the rarity of recent employer injunctions to stop strikes, one such injunction averted flight disruption over Chris...

The FCA has today published a statement for financial services firms with guidance setting out its expectations for effectively responding to the Covid-19 outbreak. Consistent with existing regulatory requirements, the FCA expects all firms to have ...

As the world tries to navigate the challenges of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we have seen a significant increase in demand for the use of electronic signatures. As businesses and public bodies implement home-working protocols (in response to gov...

The EU has today published further sanctions against Russia, following agreement between the EU and the US that additional measures were required to respond to, what the EU and US view as, Russia’s continued efforts to destabilise the Ukraine....

The Government has recently announced that the Consumer Rights Bill is intended to become law on 1 October 2015, subject to the ongoing Parliamentary process. The Bill is relevant to businesses in the transport sector as it will introduce significan...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Zurich Insurance PLC UK Branch v International Energy Group Limited provides some clarity to the position of Clubs who face long-tail work related illness claims where multiple employers or insurers were involve...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview on Saturday there was a growing risk of a hard Brexit in the midst of the coronavirus crisis as negotiations between Britain and the European Union so far on the future trade relationship had yielded hardly any progress.

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Over the years, Poland has worked to position itself as a strategic partner to Ukraine and its gateway to the European Union. One of these initiatives appears to be paying dividends. The efforts of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) to attract new fore...

Practice Statement No. 31: Implications for formal sale processes 1. Introduction On 7 July 2017, the UK Takeover Panel published Practice Statement No. 31, which sets out how the Panel Executive will apply certain aspects of Rules 2.4, 2.6, 21.2 an...

Introduciton On 5 December 2017, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published its proposals for a revised UK Corporate Governance Code. The Code is shorter, building on the FRC’s...

“Not a Dirty Word”: ESMA revisits the impact of its Opinion on delegation for UK managers if there is a “hard” Brexit In the wake of the draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, a speech by Steven Maijoor, th...

Background There have been two key documents published which clarify the impact that Brexit will have on the UK takeovers regime. The draft Takeovers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (Takeovers Regulations) essentially remove all refere...

Government plans to ensure that workers don't have to take Bank Holidays as part of their annual leave will see the UK start to catch up with its European counterparts in terms of holiday provision. Currently up to two million workers in the UK hav...

The Ukrainian government promised that all medical personnel would be tested for COVID-19 once every five days, but doctors have told RFE/RL that has not happened. Medics also said that there were shortages of protective gear and that government promises of increased pay have not been met.

Georgia summoned its ambassador to Ukraine back to Tbilisi in a sign of its displeasure over Kyiv’s decision to name Mikheil Saakashvili to a government reform body. 

As governments around the world battle to contain Coronavirus, the scale of economic disruption and impact on businesses cannot be underestimated. It is easy to see why some have predicted a rise in disputes work arising out of the unfolding global ...

As the outbreak of the latest coronavirus spreads across the globe, the consequences for commercial transactions are evolving. From what was initially a shorter term focus on immediate impact, all of us in business are now in the position of plannin...

Introduction One of the many implications of the Coronavirus outbreak is a renewed focus on contract terms that allow suppliers early warning of customer financial difficulty. However, for suppliers of IT, English insolvency legislation prevents tho...

The escalation of the COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in many businesses being unable to perform their contractual obligations to their customers, whether by being unable to perform at all, or finding that they are having to delay performance signifi...

Pensions Regulator publishes details of first enforcement action for auto-enrolment non-compliance The Pensions Regulator has published its first section 89 report relating to breaches of the aut...

The UK Government’s firm intention is that the UK will leave the European Union at 11 pm on 31 January 2020. As part of the withdrawal agreement setting out the terms of the UK’s exit (Withdrawal Agreement), the EU and the UK have agree...

Year end reporting and filing accounts Year end reporting and audit As a reminder, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published advice to all companies and auditors in February on COVID-19 related risk disclosures in year-...

For listed and traded UK companies with a 31 December year end, the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential  for further tightening of restrictions on gatherings and travel in the UK raise particular issues as they enter into reporting and AGM seas...

Companies are facing difficult times with reporting, audits and meetings in view of the COVID-19  outbreak. In this update we take a look at the measures that have been announced this week to assist companies. Whilst we are seeing some creative...

Background The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a public health crisis which has quickly developed into a deep economic crisis. Many businesses, particularly those in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors, are facing a complete and indefinite c...

Listed companies and recapitalisation issuances The FCA has announced a series of measures aimed to assist companies in raising additional capital in response to the Coronavirus crisis, whilst at the same time aiming to retain appropriate protection...

The Investment Association (IA) has issued guidance to UK listed companies on how to approach executive pay issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The IA published a Full Article