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VAT and income tax deferrals to assist VAT-paying businesses and the self-employed during Covid-19 Outbreak
27 March 2020As part of the sweeping financial package announced by the Government on 20 March 2020, the Government is offering VAT and income tax deferrals to assist with the cash-flow of VAT-paying businesses and the self-employed. These deferrals are expected to provide over £30bn of additional cash-flow to a wide variety of British businesses.
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Sam Minshall comments for Sky News, The Telegraph, The Independent and ITV: Olympic cyclist Jess Varnish's sex discrimination case against UK Sport and British Cycling begins
10 December 2018Sam Minshall has commented in articles for Sky News and The Telegraph which discuss Olympic cyclist Jess Varnish's sex discrimination case against UK Sport and British Cycling.
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Employee undergoing IVF feels sidelined after seeking support from management – Catherine Hayes comments for the Irish Times on the various employment issues to consider and how best to proceed
13 June 2024Over recent years efforts have been made to make the workplace more family friendly and support for those going through IVF has increased. However, some worry that being too truthful about what they’re going through can have unintended consequences. Catherine Hayes comments on how best to proceed and employment law considerations.
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Apprenticeships: jurisdictional variations
08 February 2024It’s National Apprenticeship Week and, continuing our focus on hiring apprentices, we consider how the requirements for apprenticeships vary across the United Kingdom, and highlight key considerations for employers operating across different jurisdictions when hiring apprentices.
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Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality
31 March 2023Hardly a day goes by when a residential landlord is not bombarded by a seemingly endless torrent of bad news about the future of owning Buy-to-Lets or investment portfolios. Residential landlords and investors are leaving the market in droves. Driven away by rising interest rates, ever-increasing costs and the perceived burden of legislative and regulatory reforms.
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the vanishing director
30 August 2016Any good director knows that they have a duty to act in accordance with the company's articles of association. These dictate how directors should be appointed and removed, how shares are transferred and how key decisions should be made. Yet real life isn’t always that neat in practice. So what happens if a company discovers that it has invalidly appointed directors over the past twelve years? A recent judgment tells us that company articles can be amended by conduct – but warns that your articles can still come back to bite you in the end.
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Are Chinese clubs getting value for foreign players?
20 July 2016Karish Andrews, Partner at Lewis Silkin and part of the Sports Business Group has commented in Associate Press regarding the value of foreign football players being attracted to the Chinese Super League.
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Creating tangible value from an intangible business asset – how IP strategy is climbing the boardroom agenda
30 January 2020Intellectual property is climbing the boardroom agenda as C-suite leaders realise it is no longer simply an asset to register and protect against infringement, it's something that adds genuine and tangible value to their business.
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How Pelion derives value from IP: Antony Craggs comments for Managing IP
17 June 2021Lewis Silkin's Antony Craggs and Emily Drea of Pelion examine how the IoT company manages its IP portfolio and realises value from it.
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High value finance available for purchasing property – how should I structure my loan?
23 June 2022In the search for high value property finance, there are multiple ways you can structure your facility. Whether you are considering a capital repayment or interest only mortgage, a loan with or without assets under management, or securities-backed lending, we outline below what you can expect from each facility.
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How to read an investment termsheet: Part 1 - The valuation
07 December 2016David Willbe has written a piece for Startup Grind.
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Service of a claim form on an agent - was it valid?
22 June 2017In a recent case the High Court considered as a preliminary issue whether a claimant had validly served a claim form on what they considered was the agent of the claimant. The rules of service require that the defendant must be served at the place within the jurisdiction where it conducts business, or where it carries on its activities and which has a real connection with the claim. Therefore the question here was whether the agent’s office was a place at which the defendant conducted its business, or where it carried on its activities?
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COVID-19 vaccine counterfeits set off alarms across the globe: David Swain comments for BioWorld
23 February 2021A cooler box with 70 vials allegedly filled with counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines seized from a Chinese couple in Colombia’s El Dorado International Airport on Feb. 17 underscored the growing challenges facing pharmaceutical companies, law enforcement authorities and health care regulators around the world. David Swain comments on patient safety, company liability and the security of distribution channels in this article for BioWorld.
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Ireland - Collecting employee vaccine data – latest guidance
24 June 2021With many employers planning the return to the workplace the question arises as to what vaccination data (if any) can be collected from returning staff. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has [finally] issued guidance clarifying its position on whether it is permissible for employers to collect and process this information.
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UK employers grapple with vaccine policies: Lucy Lewis comments for The Financial Times
22 September 2021Employers in the UK have been warned by legal advisers that requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid may prove problematic, as offices start to fill up again after the easing of pandemic restrictions.
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UK companies look to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory: James Davies comments for Financial Times
17 February 2021British companies are looking to draw up “no jab, no job” contracts for employees, as the government admitted that it was “up to businesses” if they wanted workers or customers to hold coronavirus vaccination passports. James Davies shares his insight in this article.
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Vaccination for Covid-19 – can employers require their employees to be vaccinated?
07 December 2020With a vaccination against coronavirus in sight, many employers will understandably be eager to have their employees vaccinated in hope of their workplace finally returning to some form of normality. This article explores some of the legal issues.
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Vaccination policies – data privacy concerns for employers in Hong Kong
17 August 2021With over half of Hong Kong’s population having received a first vaccine dose, employers may be keen to monitor which of their employees have been vaccinated.