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Ads & Brands Law Digest: October 2024
04 November 2024Welcome to the latest Ads & Brands Law Monthly Newsletter. We cover legal and regulatory developments from the last few weeks relevant to advertising, marketing and brand-owning businesses.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: Is this for real? The legal reality behind deepfakes
04 November 2024Did this really happen? Did they really say that? The emergence of deepfakes, which are videos, audio or images generated by artificial intelligence to mimic real people have quickly evolved from a novel technological curiosity to a sophisticated tool pushing the bounds of what is ethically and legally acceptable.
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Winners and losers among internationally mobile employees
31 October 2024The Chancellor has announced changes to the income tax reliefs available to employees who carry out some or all of their duties overseas. While those changes will simplify the rules, employers and employees will need to consider the implications of the changes carefully as there will be winners and losers.
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End clients to take responsibility for umbrella company tax compliance
31 October 2024Umbrella companies won't have you covered from April 2026 - at least as regards employment taxes. The Chancellor has plans for a crackdown on non-compliance in umbrella companies which would make end clients and agencies responsible for PAYE and NICs compliance.
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Tribunal finds legitimate purposes for direct offers to union members
30 October 2024An Employment Tribunal decision has provided helpful guidance for employers in determining whether making direct offers to their employees would be unlawful for the purpose of bypassing collective bargaining.
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Hong Kong: Unlocking Love: Could Tinder Leave Be the Key to Happier Employees in Hong Kong?
30 October 2024Two companies in Asia, Gushcloud International and Whiteline Group, are reportedly offering their employees a new type of benefit - ‘Tinder Leave’. This article explores what Tinder Leave is and whether it may benefit employees if employers introduced it in Hong Kong.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: Fair Work Agency
30 October 2024The Employment Rights Bill creates a new state enforcement agency for specific employment rights, including some major new enforcement powers. What is covered, and what will these new powers mean in practice? We explain what we know so far.
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Autumn Budget 2024: Filling the black hole
30 October 2024Matthew Rowbotham summarises the main tax changes affecting businesses and entrepreneurs in the Autumn Budget.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: Talent Agreements
28 October 2024When drafting or reviewing talent, performer or celebrity agreements under English law, there are several key points specific to these agreements to consider to ensure that both parties (the talent and the commissioning party) are adequately protected. Getting the right balance is of course, where the challenge is.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: De-risking Devices as a Service (DaaS)!
28 October 2024Devices as a Service (DaaS) is now long established as one of the easiest ways to purchase use of IT hardware.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: Force Majeure
28 October 2024This article outines what force majeure is, the benefits of having a force majeure clause and how to invoke one.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: How can I comply with regulatory laws affecting my supply chain?
28 October 2024Companies are increasingly being required to comply with various laws which relate to their supply chain or the behaviour of their employees, agents and sub-contractors.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: Drop the shipping, but not the ball! Five key watchouts for sellers who drop-ship!
28 October 2024Drop-shipping has become a popular model in the ever-evolving landscape of e-commerce. But while it makes sellers’ lives easier in terms of removing the need to hold and manage inventory, it comes with its own set of legal intricacies from a consumer law perspective.
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Digital, Commerce & Creative 101: Software escrow: why bother, and what about SaaS and escrow?
28 October 2024Imagine this: your business licenses in a custom-built software platform to manage its critical day-to-day operations. One day, you receive the shocking news that your software provider has gone out of business. Panic sets in as you realise that, without access to this critical software, your entire system could come to a grinding halt. You breathe a sigh of relief as you remember that, in the course of negotiating the software licence, you engaged a software escrow agent.
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Visa processing delays expected due to a lack of appointment availability
24 October 2024A lack of appointment availability is impacting immigration applications made within the UK only.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: will guaranteed hours guarantee flexibility for both parties?
24 October 2024The Employment Rights Bill addresses Labour’s commitment to ending “one sided flexibility” with a new requirement for employers to offer qualifying workers “guaranteed hours”. We look at what the Bill sets out, what’s missing and what you need to do.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: substantial changes to collective redundancies
24 October 2024Laws requiring employers to go through collective consultation and notify the government before making redundancies are in for a major shake-up, under the government’s plans. Our article looks at what’s changing and why it will have such a substantial impact.
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Northern Ireland ‘Good Jobs’: what did our stakeholders say and what impact will the Employment Rights Bill have?
24 October 2024The Labour government has now published its long-awaited Employment Rights Bill, which addresses many key issues raised under the recent ‘Good Jobs’ consultation in Northern Ireland. We recently reached out to stakeholders to share their views on some of these key proposals and review these results in light of changes announced in Great Britain and consider what is next For the 'Good Jobs' legislation.
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Managing retirement and mandatory retirement ages in Ireland
23 October 2024A decision handed down by the Irish Supreme Court over the summer has been widely welcomed by employers and provides much needed clarity on whether the setting of a blanket contractual mandatory retirement age can be objectively justified.
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Hong Kong In-house Community Congress 2024 - Key Takeaways
22 October 2024Our experienced team comprising employment specialists Catherine Leung and Matthew Durham, along with disputes partner Kenix Yuen presented on “Conducting Internal Investigations with Confidence”. During the session, they covered the life cycle of an internal investigation, highlighting the specific legal, logistical, strategic, and practical issues that in-house lawyers need to consider when dealing with allegations and complaints.