Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week: April 6-10
Published on 10th Apr 2015
In this week’s edition of Osborne Clarke’s best reads, we have a diverse range of news and views from around the web written for you by Osborne Clarke’s people.
Here are the must read posts of the week…
Smart Energy GB, the campaign group for the national smart meter roll-out, has hit back after the Institute of Directors (IoD) criticised the project. The business organisation issued a report at the end of March, calling for the smart meters scheme to be “halted, altered or scrapped” to avoid what it said could turn out to be the next government IT disaster and an “unjustified, over-engineered and expensive mistake”. Read the full article here.
- [Video] Who should lead on smart cities?
Matthew Germain, Associate Director at Osborne Clarke discusses collaboration and who should lead on smart cities in the latest smart cities video here.
It is an attractive option for an individual to bring him or herself within the UK whistleblowing laws. Not only does a worker have a right not to be subjected to any detriment for making a disclosure falling within these laws, any dismissal for doing so will be automatically unfair. Read more here.
The London Stock Exchange recently announced that a nominated adviser had been privately censured and fined £90,000 for breaching Rules 16 (due skill and care), 17 (advising and guiding an AIM company) and 19 (liaison with the Exchange) of the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers (the Nomad Rules). The case is a useful reminder of the need to update the market of developments in previously announced matters, in order to avoid a false market arising in the company’s shares. Read more here.
If so, you should read Kysen MD Clare Rodway’s full interview with UK Managing Partner Ray Berg here.
