The DWP has issued for consultation draft regulations, the Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) (Amendment) and Pension Protection Fund (Multi-employer and Entry Rules) (Amendment) Regulations 2007.

Public sector outsourcing, including PPP/PFI/BSF, involves work being carried out by the private sector on behalf of the public sector. This represents an important business opportunity, with estimates of current revenues of upwards of £50 bn a year.

Carl Rohsler, head of the gambling team at Hammonds discusses an important feature of the new UK law which does not seem to have received much attention.

Environmental regulation in the UK is underpinned by the use or threat of criminal sanctions. Commentators argue that such sanctions are too rigid a tool for all but the most serious environmental offences which leads to the trivialisation of environmental offences and the imposition of inadequate fines.

Financial services firms are preparing to implement changes required by the European Commission’s “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, or MiFID.

Although the number of fatalities in the construction industry has been fluctuating, there is no consistent trend in the last four years. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 2.2 million people work in Britain’s construction industry, making it the country’s biggest industry and, as has been widely reported, one of the most dangerous.

New and complex accounting guidance (IFRIC14) will have a significant impact on the way pension scheme surpluses are accounted for in company accounts.

Where an employer is tipped off by an informant about a possible malingerer and does not subsequently rely on that information (relying, for example, on medical/ video evidence instead) there is no obligation to take a statement from the informant

When the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 (the Regulations) were first introduced, the legal profession and clients at large held their breaths as they waited to see how these regulations would be applied and interpreted. Over the years there have been a number of cases before the courts looking at terminology and interpretation of how to recompense an agent for the loss of their agency, through no fault of their own.

In July 2004 Mr Webb was summarily dismissed for washing his car when he should have been working. On appeal a lesser sanction, a final written warning, was imposed. Mr Webb was informed that this would remain on his file for 12 months. However, in September 2005, little more than three weeks after the expiry of the warning, Mr Webb was one of five employees caught taking a break when they should have been working. All were found guilty of gross misconduct and Mr Webb was summarily dismissed.

Where an employer is tipped off by an informant about a possible malingerer and does not subsequently rely on that information (relying, for example, on medical/ video evidence instead) there is no obligation to take a statement from the informant.

The coroners’ system has come under considerable scrutiny since 2003 culminating in the Government’s draft Bill for coroner reform (the Bill) published in June 2006 and a post-consultation report published by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

HM Revenue & Customs; Nationwide; Orange; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; to name a few organisations recently in the limelight for the wrong reasons..