Updates

Molly Waiting writes for Privacy & Data Protection Journal

Molly Waiting, Associate in our Data Privacy team has recently written an article for the Privacy & Data Protection Journal on “Top Ten Data Protection Considerations When Outsourcing”. In the article, Molly runs us through ten key considerations from a data controller’s perspective when thinking about outsourcing. She covers everything from: What’s involved;What due diligence …
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What’s new at the Charity Commission?

Danielle Mawer and Jack Michaels report on recent developments at the Charity Commission. We take a look at all the latest Commission guidance, including around the coronavirus pandemic.
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Build Back Better: Impact Investing – financing the profit-with-purpose economy

Systemic change is needed in order to tackle the social and planetary problems we face. Business is driving increasingly towards greater corporate purpose and stakeholder capitalism, and its fuel must be investments that seek returns through creating a green and inclusive economy. There’s evidence for the benefits of integrating social and environmental impacts alongside financial …
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Immigration and changing your structure

Organisations shouldn’t underestimate the immigration considerations when faced with a change in structure. You may be affected if you already have a licence to sponsor migrant workers from outside the EEA or you are considering applying for one in order to sponsor new arrivals from the EEA from 1 January 2021.
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Impact finance for real estate

The rapid growth of impact finance in recent years has seen sustainability and socially responsible investing move to the top of the agenda. Malcolm Headley and Christina Tennant argue that real estate finance has to be at the heart of impact finance discussions.
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Coronavirus and Employment Law: what do you need to know?

In this week’s roundup, we examine what the evolving coronavirus pandemic could mean for employment law. We examine the impact on employees and employers, with a particular focus on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – Know How Our Employment team are constantly reviewing the new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and compiling their knowledge to …
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Home Office encourages employers to apply for a sponsor licence early in preparation for the new post-Brexit immigration system

As with the start of any new financial year, comes with it, new Immigration Rules and Home Office guidance. This year is no different. You may recall that in the Home Office’s policy paper on the UK’s points based immigration system published on 19 February 2020, employers were encouraged to consider applying for sponsorship status …
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Landlords and Tenants: Surviving Coronavirus Together

In association with Cluttons, we have put together this article focusing on landlords and tenants. The UK Government is relatively reluctant to legislate in the commercial real estate arena but in these unprecedented times the Coronavirus Act 2020 (25 March 2020) does contain measures that impact on commercial real estate.  However, the provisions are arguably …
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COVID-19: competition, procurement and state aid

Understandably it might not be at the forefront of your minds but we thought it important to highlight that there have been some public announcements regarding UK competition law, the EU public procurement and State Aid frameworks during the COVID crisis. The public announcements provide guidance and may go a little way to ease pressure …
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Citizenship applications – high fees for children found to be unlawful

The fee to register a child as a British citizen is £1,012. The high level of the fee, which even applies where a child has a legal entitlement to register as British, has prevented many children from applying for citizenship because their families simply cannot afford to pay. The administrative cost for processing these applications is …
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Charity Commission issues governance alert to large service-providing charities

On 25 June, the Charity Commission issued a regulatory alert to the leaders of large service-providing charities.  The Commission has sent the alert to charities which have the following profile: The alert follows a series of Charity Commission investigations into household name charities which found governance and safeguarding failings. If your charity meets this profile …
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Charity & Social Enterprise Update | Summer 2020

In the Summer issue of our Charity & Social Enterprise Update: If you would like to discuss any of the issues raised in this Update, please contact our Charity team.
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