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A meeting with your line manager on your first day Setting up a meeting with your line manager on day one of your new role is strongly advisable. Although it will most likely be an initial ‘getting to know you’ chat, there are several questions you can raise to help you feel more at ease in the position. If you are the only in-house lawyer or leading an internal legal team, your line manager will typically be the CEO or Finance Director, though it could be any other director. If you are joining an existing team, your line manager may sit in a legal, regulatory or compliance function, for example: Company Secretary General Counsel Senior Solicitor Legal Director Compliance Director Alternatively, they may hold a non-legal post, such as Finance Director or CEO. In a larger team with multiple layers in the reporting structure, your line manager could be someone else within that hierarchy. This Checklist highlights the key...

In this issue: Brexit highlights Post-Brexit transition guidelines Brexit SIs Constitutional and administrative law Subsidy control and State Aid Judicial review Equality and human rights Other Public law news Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers New and updated content Useful information Brexit highlights EAC sets out recommendations on future of UK-EU data adequacy The House of Lords European Affairs Committee (EAC) has issued a letter to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Peter Kyle, summarising the principal conclusions and recommendations from its inquiry into UK‑EU data adequacy. It found that the loss of EU data adequacy in June 2025 would bring substantial costs and added administrative burdens for businesses and organisations, create obstacles to international trade and economic co‑operation, and detrimentally affect Northern Ireland under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the Windsor Framework Agreement. The EAC therefore advises that the government engage with...

In this issue: Medical devices Intellectual property Data protection and life sciences Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Research and development Competition in life sciences Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Medical devices Government supports new UK medical device rules following consultation The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued the government’s concluding response to its consultation on planned updates to medical device legislation, setting out future pathways to market for medical devices. The government will advance three principal changes: adopting an international reliance framework, removing the UKCA marking requirement once devices carry unique device identification (UDI), and revising the classification of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices. Collectively, these measures are intended to modernise oversight while promoting innovation and protecting patient safety. See: LNB News 23/07/2025 14. AI developers, users see EU’s guidelines on general-purpose AI models MLex: On 18 July 2025, the European Commission released guidance...

In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Consumer protection Contracts E-commerce Sale and supply of goods LexTalk®Commercial: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Advertising, marketing and sponsorship HFSS promotion, placement and advertising—where are we now? In recent years the government has rolled out measures intended to curb the promotion, positioning and advertising of food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS). The objective is to address childhood obesity and put children’s health first by limiting children’s exposure to HFSS products in physical retail, on TV and online. While part of the regime is already operative, other elements have been deferred owing to factors such as rising food prices and cost of living pressures. In this article, Simon Jupp and Emma Sims of Taylor Wessing summarise the rules and confirm their status as at September 2025. See News...

Oil & Gas—UKCS licensing regime Regulatory body Up to 2016, oversight of the UK’s oil and gas resources chiefly sat with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), acting for the Secretary of State. Following Sir Ian Wood’s review of UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) oil and gas recovery (the Wood Review), government created an independent regulator—now the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)—to assume DECC’s licensing and regulatory duties in respect of all oil and gas exploration and production activities on the UKCS. This restructuring transferred responsibility for those matters from DECC to the new body. Until 21 March 2022 the NSTA operated under the name Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), which remains the company’s formal legal name and continues to appear in some legislation. The NSTA began taking on these roles from DECC on 1 April 2015, at first as an executive agency within DECC. The Energy Act 2016 subsequently established the NSTA as a fully independent regulator, constituted as an independent Government company, and amended the...

This Practice Note looks at the principal considerations and steps when establishing a company limited by shares or by guarantee. What is a company? A company is a business vehicle that exists as a separate legal entity, distinct from its members. It is owned by its members and run by its directors. It is governed by the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). Companies are widely used; more than 5 million are on the UK public register maintained by Companies House. Under the CA 2006, the following company types are available: Public or private companies limited by shares — see Practice Notes: Private companies limited by shares and Public companies limited by shares Private companies limited by guarantee (primarily used by charities and other not-for-profit organisations — see Practice Note: Companies limited by guarantee) Unlimited companies (comparatively uncommon — see Practice Note: Unlimited companies) For details on other business vehicles, see Practice Note: Forms of business vehicle — fundamentals....

FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT : The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill secured Royal Assent on 18 September 2023, becoming the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023 (the Act), and was published on 19 September 2023. The Act confers powers on the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make regulations to: lower the minimum age at which otherwise eligible employees must be automatically enrolled and re-enrolled into a pension scheme by their employers; remove the Lower Earnings Limit from the qualifying earnings band so that contributions are calculated from the first pound of earnings; and revise the requirements for the annual review of the qualifying earnings band. Adjustments to automatic enrolment eligibility will proceed following a consultation on the detailed implementation method and timing. The commencement of section 1 of the Act is set to be ‘on such day or days as the Secretary of State may by regulations appoint’. For further information, see: DWP press release, Work...

Date [ date ] Parties [ name of (first) Owner ] [ and [ name of second Owner ] ] [ [ both ] of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) having its registered office at ] [ address ] ( [ together ] Owner ) [ name of Promoter ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) having its registered office at ] [ address ] ( Promoter ) 1 Definitions In this Agreement, the following expressions shall have these meanings: [ Adverse Rights • any easement, covenant, right or other interest in or over the Property, the release, discharge or alteration of which is reasonably required in order to: (a) achieve the Objective; or (b) facilitate the Development; ] [ Adverse Rights Agreement • any instrument giving legal effect to the release, discharge or alteration of an Adverse Right; ] ...

COMPANY NUMBER: [ insert number ] [ insert company name ] PLC Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors (the Meeting) of [ insert full name of company ] (the Company) convened at [ insert place of meeting ] on [ insert day, month and year of meeting ] at [ insert time of meeting ] [ am OR pm ] PRESENT: [ Insert names of the director(s) physically present ] [ [ Insert names of any directors present by telephone as permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] (by telephone) ] [ [ Insert names of any directors present by other means permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] by [ insert other means ] ] [ IN ATTENDANCE: ] [ [ Insert name of anyone in attendance, who does not count towards the quorum for the Meeting (eg the company secretary, any legal advisers) ] ] [...

[ INSERT COMPANY NAME ] LIMITED Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors (the Meeting) of [ insert full name of company ] (the Company) Held at: [ insert place of meeting ] On: [ insert day, month and year of meeting ] at [ insert time of meeting ] [ am OR pm ] Present [ Insert names of the director(s) physically present ] [ Insert names of any directors present by telephone as permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] (by telephone) [ Insert names of any directors present by other means permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] by [ insert other means ] In attendance [ Insert name of anyone in attendance, who does not count towards the quorum for the Meeting (eg the company secretary, any advisers) ] 1 Chair, notice and quorum [ Insert name ] was elected to...

Under section 193 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 Employers are required to inform the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) before issuing any redundancy notices and, in any event: where 20 or more dismissals are contemplated within 90 days, no less than 30 days before the first dismissal takes effect where 100 or more dismissals are contemplated within 90 days, no less than 45 days before the first dismissal takes effect For BEIS notification purposes, the full 30- or 45-day interval must pass before the first dismissal occurs. Notification is made on Form HR1, submitted to The Insolvency Service. For additional details, see Practice Note: Collective redundancy—statutory information and consultation obligations, under the heading Obligation to notify BEIS (Form HR1). As stated in the Advance notification of redundancies: guidance for employers accompanying Form HR1, the notification date is ‘the date on which we receive your completed form’. Forms with any required information...