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The Government has put an order before Parliament to increase rates in cases and rights within the Employment Tribunals jurisdiction.

Trustees of occupational pension schemes have a statutory duty to ensure that they have an adequate knowledge and understanding of the legal issues relevant to their scheme.

The Pensions Commission has now published its second report setting out its conclusions on the likely evolution of the UK pension system if policy is unchanged, and recommendations for change.

The DTI and DWP have announced that the pensions’ provisions of the Age Discrimination Regulations will be deferred until 1 December 2006. The rest of the Regulations will come into force on 1 October 2006 as planned.

December 2005 saw a flurry of pensions regulations. The final version of the new scheme funding regulations emerged at last as did new investment regulations setting out a variety of issues for trustees to consider when investing scheme assets. December also saw regulations published on cross-border activities, internal controls and regulatory own funds.

For the most part, the last two months have not seen many significant developments in relation to the Pensions Act 2004, although the Regulator has published further guidance on funding and cross-border schemes and various proposals have been made about the PPF and the PPF levy.

On 30th March 2006 the DTI stated its employment policy priority for this Parliament would be to protect vulnerable workers. These are workers working in environments where the risk of being denied employment rights is high, such as casual or agency workers.

The UNITE trade union has announced a £5 million out of court settlement over the MoD’s failure to inform and consult the union over the transfer of fast jet servicing from DSG St Athan to private sector contractors at the RAF’s main operating bases.

The Sustainable Procurement Task force was launched by the Prime Minister in March this year as part of the Government's Sustainable Development Strategy. Its remit is to draw up an Action Plan by April 2006 to change the way in which the public sector purchases goods and services so that environment considerations are given greater precedence.

Proposals to publish league tables, ranking oil and gas companies according to their health and safety performance, are being considered by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Supporters claim the proposals could make the North Sea a safer place to work, but there are fears that the scheme could amount to mere ‘naming and shaming’.

On 27 June the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published details of the amendments to the Combined Code on Corporate Governance that will take effect in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 November 2006.

The Government’s ID card scheme which only recently obtained the go ahead after much controversy looks likely to be delayed.

Earlier this year, we reported that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister had made a statement delaying the coming into effect of major new fire safety legislation affecting all non-domestic premises in England and Wales.

The International Graduate Scheme ("IGS"), launched by the Home Office on 1 May 2007, has replaced the Science and Engineering Graduates Scheme ("SEGS").

In a landmark judgement, the High Court ruled on 8 April 2008 that the changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme implemented in November 2006 were unfair and discriminatory due to their retrospective effect, and that the terms of the original scheme should be honoured for those already in the UK at the time of change.

This month the UK Patent Office launched a new mediation service for the resolution of intellectual property disputes. It covers all intellectual property rights and, particularly if combined with the new non-binding patent opinion service introduced in October 2005, represents a further useful initiative to speed up and reduce the costs of resolution of intellectual property disputes.

With immediate effect when considering the award of costs in any claim the High Court "MUST" take into account, and may call for evidence to determine, whether the parties gave proper consideration to the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).