Accountant's Liability By Richard Highley The Accountant's Liability Collection brings you topical news and insight of interest to accountants, actuaries, trustees and other financial professionals and their professional indemnity insurers.
Autonomous Driving By Peter Allchorne What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
Banking and finance dispute resolution By Jonathan Brogden For the latest news and comment on banking and finance disputes.
Brexit: the legal implications By Virginia Clegg Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Commercial health By Anne Crofts This collection looks at the latest news and comment on commercial contracting healthcare law. With the health and social care sector under pressure to generate efficiencies, individual organisations must look at how they commission and deliver…
Construction Risks By Mark Roach Welcome to the Construction Risks collection. This space is used to report upon issues of interest to those who seek to allocate, manage and reduce construction risks on behalf of contractors, as well as insurers of construction risks.
Working Safely in Wales during COVID-19: New Guidance and HSE Enforcement By Sally Roff The guidance available to businesses in relation to safe working practices during the COVID-19 crisis is not only constantly evolving, but different in Wales to that issued by central UK Government and other devolved jurisdictions. We understand…
Interest rate change in personal injury claims By David Williams With effect from 1 June 2020, the interest rates payable on money held by the Court Funds Office have dropped as a result of the Bank of England’s interest rate change to 0.1% from 19 March 2020. What impact will this change in the interest rates…
Moss Bros Group PLC: The Takeover Panel confirms it is virtually impossible to rely on most conditions to a takeover offer By Jonathan Deverill The Takeover Panel has again considered whether an offeror should be able to rely on a material adverse change condition in the context of a takeover offer under the Takeover Code. On 12 March 2020, Brigadier Acquisition Company Limited…
COVID-19 and Service Charges in Commercial Lease By Clare Hartley Most landlords, like their tenants, do not have infinite resources. Landlords rely on the rent to meet their own obligations, but that does not include service charges.
Recent Immigration Developments for Healthcare workers in the UK By Shahjahan Ali Recognising the immeasurable effort and personal sacrifice that healthcare workers have made in the interests of public health and wellbeing, the Home Office has announced a series of measures to ease immigration pressures. We look at what these…
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is changing - Flexible Furloughing By Deborah Hely Further details on the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) were issued on 29 May 2020. From 1 July 2020 , employers can bring employees back to work on a flexible basis, for any amount of time or shift pattern, while still being…
The impact of COVID-19 on Korean investment into UK real estate By Ona Proctor The UK real estate investment market has slowed in recent weeks due to Covid 19, but our conversations with contacts in Asia, particularly in Korea, are encouraging and show that the UK is still seen as a top destination for overseas capital.
A short guide to the key COVID-19 legal developments in the health sector By Corinne Slingo In light of the national COVID19 emergency, our health sector clients are under enormous pressure, facing a range of decisions that need to be made at pace, with a backdrop of emerging guidance and legal frameworks. We have sought to summarise…
NHSE guidance on the application of the MHA during the Covid19 pandemic: Remote assessments and electronic documentation The guidance stresses that ‘high standards’ will be essential, bearing in mind the importance of the MHA assessment and that ‘great consideration will be required to ensure that the use of digital technology …does not disadvantage a person…’
NHSE guidance Annex D – guidance on the use of the MHA Code of Practice during the pandemic This contains guidance in relation to ‘alternative procedures’ during the pandemic. It is important to note that this is the view of NHSE/NHSI/DHSC as to situations where there may be ‘cogent reasons’ to depart from the Code. Ultimately however ‘it…
