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Employment Rights Bill, As Amended (Amendment Paper), 5 March 2025 Employment Rights Bill—Stages What are the implications? The Amendment Paper sets out the amendments lodged by 5 March 2025 for consideration at the report stage. There are no immediate consequences because it is still uncertain which of these proposals—if any—will be approved and trigger revisions to the ERB, although government-backed amendments remain more likely to pass. The consolidated schedule within the Amendment Paper also contains previously tabled, non-government amendments that we covered in our earlier News Analysis: Employment Rights Bill—non-government proposed amendments. The government’s suggested changes, many stemming from conclusions reached in its consultation responses, provide practitioners with an early indication of adjustments that are expected to filter into this key item of employment legislation. As a result, close monitoring of the debate remains advisable for all employment law stakeholders...

What is the background to this Bill? The existing NIS Regulations extend across five sectors: transport, energy, drinking water, health and digital infrastructure, and certain digital services, including online marketplaces, online search engines and cloud computing. Oversight sits with twelve regulators (competent authorities) tasked with putting the rules into practice and issuing guidance. The CSRB builds on a series of reviews into how well the NIS framework works, the latest of which took place in 2022. Those consultations found the regime had delivered benefit, but that legislation must evolve quickly to keep pace with a shifting cyber security environment and be widened to bring further categories of providers within scope. At the same time, a string of incidents has hit the NHS, high street names, local authorities and government suppliers, vehicle manufacturers and others, underlining the need to lift cyber security across the UK. Such events impose heavy financial and reputational costs on affected organisations, their users and the wider UK economy, exposing weaknesses spanning public and private spheres...

HM Revenue and Customs confirmed that Insurance Premium Tax receipts for February 2024 alone reached £1.5bn, lifting the running total for the last 11 months to £8.1bn, an increase on the £7.3bn recorded in 2022–23. The Office for Budget Responsibility expects IPT income to keep rising over the coming years, with more than £370m of extra revenue forecast between the 2023–24 and 2028–29 financial years. “The bumper tax take highlights both the significance of this duty to the Exchequer and the strain that higher insurance premiums are placing on household finances,” said Cara Spinks, head of insurance consulting at OAC. Price comparison website Confused.com reported that the cost of comprehensive motor insurance climbed by 58% during 2023... Customers ...

This Practice Note summarises what the SRA Accounts Rules (Accounts Rules) require in relation to receiving and transferring costs, and mirrors the SRA’s supporting guidance: SRA, Helping you keep accurate client accounting records. Money received or held in respect of unbilled fees or disbursements There is a defined meaning of client money. It includes funds you hold or receive towards your fees and any unpaid disbursements where these are received before you issue a bill for them. The SRA elaborates in separate guidance: ‘client money is money of any currency that is received and held as cash, cheque, draft or electronic transfer by a firm when they are providing legal services’. Examples include amounts for the firm’s fees, and any outstanding expert fees, received before a bill has been sent to the client for those sums. Where money held or received for unpaid disbursements is client money, it follows that money held or received in respect of disbursements already paid is office money. The general...

Scots contract law Although they have separate origins, Scots contract law has, in many respects, drawn closer to the English position. English-law notions such as undue influence and anticipatory breach have been taken into Scots contract law, and some leading authorities coincide across both systems. Nonetheless, there remain important differences that it is sensible to keep in view. The aim of this Practice Note is to point out some of the key differences between Scots and English contract law in these areas...

Brexit-related legislation of relevance to employment practitioners ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note helps you keep abreast of Brexit-linked legislation relevant to employment practitioners that is due or already in force. For general employment law developments, see: Legislation tracker-employment. Where appropriate, links to news reports offering full information on the relevant legislation are included. Commencement date (unless otherwise indicated) By 31 December 2023 (other provisions subject to commencement orders) - Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform). Under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (previously the Brexit Freedoms Bill), the special status of retained EU law within UK law will end from late 2023. Retained EU law includes the Working Time Regulations 1998, the Equality Act 2010, TUPE 2006, the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 and the Part-time Worker Regulations 2000. The Bill enables the government to specify, amend, repeal and replace retained EU law more readily via secondary legislation. It provides for sunsetting the majority of retained EU law, ending the...