Overview

The monthly news update for the retail sector, helping to keep you up to date with legal and commercial industry-wide developments.

This edition includes details on how to comply with the REACH laws, which apply to any retailer selling goods such as computers, shoes, carpets or toys that contain SVHCs and obliges them to provide information about those SVHCs to professional recipients and consumers.

It also cover gross negligence manslaughter prosecutions against individuals following work related fatalities and the type of conduct which constitutes gross negligence, which have been the topic of much discussion and the recent case of R v Winter EWCA Crim 1474; and the possible end of ‘elf and safety’ culture in the UK with Lord Young’s report.

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CONTENTS

• Eversheds Retail seminar
• REACH - are you complying?
• Gross negligence manslaughter prosecution
• The end of “elf and safety”? - Lord Young’s report published
• Capital gains tax, entrepreneurs' relief
• Will you be home for Christmas?
• Midlands Retail Dinner with Lord Harris
• No changes to be made to the Agency Workers Regulations 2010
• Competition and Markets Authority?
• Two new European Court rulings on age discrimination