Articles - DAC Beachcroft

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November 2020

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: Investment and finance

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: Investment and finance

Social care offers opportunities for investors, although innovation and legislative change is needed to ensure the sector thrives.

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: New opportunities, New Beginning

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: New opportunities, New Beginning

Better public understanding is needed, not least to ensure awareness of the career opportunities social care can offer.

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: Conclusions and Recommendations

Social Care - 2020 and beyond: Conclusions and Recommendations

This report examines some of the challenges in the care system in terms of regulation, communication, commissioning, funding and staffing, and offers ...

COVID 19 – Code of Conduct between Landlords and Tenants for Commercial Rents

COVID 19 – Code of Conduct between Landlords and Tenants for Commercial Rents

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation published a Code of Conduct between Landlords and Tenants for Commercial Rents on 1st October 2020 ...

DAC Beachcroft successful in important Clean Air Zone procurement challenge

DAC Beachcroft successful in important Clean Air Zone procurement challenge

Neology UK Ltd v The Council of the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne & Ors [2020] EWHC 2958 (TCC) Tim Dennis (Legal Director), Hannah Chapelhow (Senior ...

New immigration system to go live on 1 December 2020

New immigration system to go live on 1 December 2020

The UK’s new immigration system will come into force at 9am on 1 December 2020, laying out the detailed requirements that employers and individuals wi ...

Hybrid Retirement

Hybrid Retirement

Crispin Tomlinson, Head of Residential at international law firm DAC Beachcroft, considers the changes driving the later life living market.  

Mind the (social unrest) gap! In an era of mass protest, how can (re)insurers balance the risk with the needs of insureds?

Mind the (social unrest) gap! In an era of mass protest, how can (re)insurers balance the risk with the needs of insureds?

Since 2017 over 100 countries worldwide have seen significant civil unrest or mass protest. 2019 saw the Chilean riots, the “Gilets Jaunes” and Hong K ...

Collective redundancies – ECJ decision on reference period

Collective redundancies – ECJ decision on reference period

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed in UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU  that in deciding if the threshold for collective redundancy consu ...

Further political upheaval in Latin America - Peru’s revolving presidential door

Further political upheaval in Latin America - Peru’s revolving presidential door

Last year saw repeated violence on the streets of Chile, Latin America’s most advanced economy. Though the protests were initially sparked by a govern ...