Overview

This update from Mills & Reeves offers a mix of topical issues affecting companies, directors and shareholders. This edition includes pieces on a couple of employment reforms that have hit the headlines recently relating to the lengthening of the qualification period for bringing unfair dismissal claims and to the new law covering agency workers.

For those businesses involved in distance selling there is an alert about the OFT's new online resource and, for those who are considering taking on a new directorship, a pointer in the direction of revised ICSA guidance on suggestions for due diligence that you should consider before taking up the appointment.

Finally, this issue heralds news of the second corporate manslaughter prosecution and the first prosecution under the Bribery Act.

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