Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week: March 30 - April 2
Published on 2nd Apr 2015
In this week’s edition of Osborne Clarke’s best legal reads, we’ve got a webinar discussing next week’s CDM Regulation changes, a video looking at why we need smart cities and plenty of news and views from around the web written by Osborne Clarke’s people.
Louise Young, co-lead of the UK Economics team at McKinsey & Company delves in to the world of smart cities and why we need them, watch the video here.
On 26 March 2015, Osborne Clarke brought together businesses from across the staffing industry to look at the impact of changes in the tax regime relating to employment intermediaries and what that means for the supply of staff in the UK in future. An overview of the event is set out here.
On 6 April 2015, the CDM Regulations are changing. The changes are likely to affect the majority of UK businesses, who at one time or another will be involved in the very broad definition of “construction” works – whether by procuring, overseeing, inputting or carrying out those works. Watch the webinar here.
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act (“SBEE Act”) received royal assent last week, incorporating a late amendment requiring the mandatory reporting of gender pay information by larger companies. Read the full article here.
As we previously blogged about on Osborne Clarke’s corporate law blog, the Government has brought regulations into force, with effect from 4 March 2015, prohibiting the use of cancellation schemes of arrangement on takeovers. The policy behind the regulations is the equalisation of the stamp duty treatment of takeovers conducted by scheme and contractual offer. Read more here.
The development of connected and autonomous vehicles will deliver a huge jobs boost to the UK and save thousands of lives, according to new research commissioned by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Read the article and comments from Osborne Clarke here.
The Pre-Emption Group (the Group), which for many years has represented the views of institutional investors on non pre-emptive share issues by listed companies, has issued a revised statement of principles (the Revised Statement). The Revised Statement is more detailed than the previous guidance issued by the Group, and, for the first time, expressly deals with structures designed to circumvent statutory pre-emption rights, such as “cashbox” transactions. Read more here.
