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Chemicals Law Update - February 2015
REACH update: Advocate General’s opinion on the application of the 0.1% threshold for substances in articles
Introducing ESOS: a corporate reporting burden or cost saving opportunity?
As first reported in our legal briefing 'Mandatory Carbon Reporting' of July 2012, there is an increasing trend by legislators at both UK and EU level towards compulsory corporate reporting and disclosure on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters.
Lock-out agreements - a user's guide
In a rising market, buyers are exposed to the risk of spending time and money investigating a property only to find that the seller decides to proceed with another party. Sellers want to maximise a rise in property prices and make full use of their agents' marketing efforts by selling quickly to the highest bidder rather than wasting time with slow or indecisive potential buyers.
IP Issues in Employment and Consultancy Contracts
In practical terms, businesses do not normally create IP – individuals do, such as employees or consultants. But it is crucial for businesses either to own or to have the right to use that IP.
Bridging pensions - state pension age issues
"Good Faith" - What does it mean?
Does the term "good faith" mean anything when used in a contract governed by English law? And, if so, what effect is a "good faith" obligation likely to have in practice?
Responsible Investment and Environmental, Social & Governance
Execution of documents - the validity of electronic signatures and other FAQs
Document execution sounds like a dry topic, but last-minute problems with execution can derail the most carefully-negotiated and documented transactions. In this increasingly digital age, the validity of electronic signatures is top of our list of FAQs, but more traditional questions as to the manner of execution never seem to go away.
Bribery - a UK guide to self-reporting in the light of DPAs and the new SFO policy
Unisex actuarial factors and annuities
Companies Act 2006 - Provisions affecting pension scheme trustee companies and their directors
Do you know your statutory and scheme employers?
Equal Treatment for Agency Workers: A Practical Guide
Protecting your customer database - preventing misuse by ex-employees
One of your employees has left to work for a competitor. You suspect that they have taken a copy of your customer database with them.
Outsourcing - Avoiding the pitfalls
With both the public and private sectors looking to cut costs and "do more with less", outsourcing is often seen as a solution. This briefing highlights how customers of outsourcing providers can avoid some of the major pitfalls.
Unsigned contracts: how draft contracts can still be binding
It's easily done: following months of negotiations, a draft contract is ready for signature but other things take priority, work begins and the contract never gets signed. Six months later, a dispute arises – but, as the draft hasn't been signed, it isn't binding.
Avoiding an Abu Qatada situation: our top 10 contract drafting tips
Possibly to the embarrassment of the Home Office, the Abu Qatada deportation case provides a useful reminder of the ambiguities inherent in many commonly-used expressions of time in legal documents.
Chemical Law & REACH: an overview
On 1 June 2007, after years of hard fought political lobbying, the EU's Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) finally came into force. Viewed by many as the most complex piece of EU legislation to date, REACH changes how chemicals will be made, imported and used within the EU.
UK Bribery Act - extra-territorial reach and guidance on corporate anti-bribery procedures
The UK Bribery Act will have a significant impact on many foreign companies when it comes into force in July 2011 because of its extra-territorial reach. A foreign company which carries on any "part of a business" in the UK could be prosecuted under the Bribery Act for failing to prevent bribery committed by any of its employees, agents or other representatives, even if the bribery takes place outside the UK and involves non-UK persons.