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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is consulting on its draft Annual Plan for 2006/7, in which it confirms its continued interest in the "interaction between government and markets".

On 18 December the Minister for Industry and the Regions, Margaret Hodge, made a statement in Parliament setting out when certain provisions of the Companies Act 2006 will be brought into force. As expected, those that relate to the implementation of the Transparency Directive, including provisions to facilitate electronic communications between companies and their shareholders, will be brought into force on 20 January 2007.

The snappily titled Regulatory Reform (Execution of Deeds and Documents) Order 2005 came into force on the 15th September.

In Thomas v Farr plc and Hanover Park Commercial Limited the Court of Appeal reviewed recent case law on restrictive covenants and upheld a 12 month non competition clause even though the employment contract also included non solicitation and confidentiality clauses.

In the recent case of Astbury v Gist Limited the Employment Appeal Tribunal ("EAT") has examined the question, raised by the Court of Appeal in Dacas v Brook Street Bureau, whether an express contract for services between a worker and an agency precluded an implied contract of employment between the worker and the end user.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that TUPE is capable of applying where an undertaking in the UK is sold to a foreign buyer and immediately shifted to a new location abroad.

In Sweetin v Coral Racing, the Scottish EAT has confirmed that the assessment of compensation in respect of a failure to inform and consult in TUPE situations should follow the same approach required to be adopted in redundancy cases.

The legislation governing the operation of fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) in Scotland is to be reviewed for the first time in over 30 years.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The health and safety calendar highlights key dates for proposed and existing legislation and policy and closing dates for consultation papers relating to major health and safety issues in the UK and EU.

The HSE offshore Oil & Gas division have delivered the results of their three-year investigation into the safety and integrity of offshore installations and the equipment on them.

In Scott-Davies v Redgate Medical Services the EAT confirmed that there is no statutory provision conferring jurisdiction on Employment Tribunals to consider free-standing complaints that there has been a failure to comply with the statutory dispute resolution procedures. So employees with under the one year's service normally needed to claim unfair dismissal do not have a claim if the statutory 3-step procedure is not followed.

In Morrish V NTL Group Limited (3rd July 2007) the Inner House of the Scottish Court of Session (equivalent to the English Court of Appeal) has confirmed that there is no implied term in an employment contract to make a payment in lieu of notice (PILON).

Amendments have been published to the employer debt regulations. These are the regulations which set out how much an employer will have to pay when it leaves an underfunded scheme or when such a scheme is wound up.

In what could be a landmark ruling under sexual orientation discrimination laws, an Employment Tribunal has ruled that even though the former global head of equity trading at HSBC was lawfully dismissed for gross misconduct, he was discriminated against during the investigative process because of his sexual orientation.