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Real estate update: Break rights and the pandemic

When your current office space is no longer required, your organisation might want to utilise the break right to bring a lease to an end early. For this to be successful, you must strictly adhere to any pre-conditions set out in the lease for the exercise of the break right. To help you do this, …
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After Brexit, how attractive is the UK investor visa?

The pandemic has shaken up investment visa programmes. In Wealth Briefing, members of our immigration team (ranked Band 1, Chambers UK 2021) look at the current market, what has changed for HNW’s in the EU, and where it leaves UK attractiveness. Noting that the number of Tier 1 investor visas issued in the UK has …
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Bates Wells represents Kids Company trustees in High Court win

The High Court has ruled against the Official Receiver in his bid to disqualify the former trustees and CEO of Kids Company from acting as directors. In a 225 page judgment Mrs Justice Falk found that the public needed no protection from the ‘highly impressive and dedicated’ trustees and that she was ‘wholly satisfied’ that …
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A brave new world: It’s state aid but not (quite) as we know it…

Following Brexit and the end of the transition period the UK has now committed to a new subsidy control regime in accordance with the new EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, to replace the EU state aid regime. All organisations which might give or receive subsidies from UK Government funds – including central and local government, …
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Boardroom 2030 hackathon: looking through a climate lens

We held our first firm wide climate-focused hackathon as part of B Lab’s Boardroom 2030 campaign. We chose to look at Boardroom 2030 through a climate-lens and held a preliminary panel discussion a fortnight before. At the panel event, chaired by B Lab’s Charmian Love, we asked an activist, an environmental think tank policy director …
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Bates Wells honoured as a ‘Best for the World” B Corp, 2021

Bates Wells has been announced as a 2021 “Best for the World” B Corp, in the category of governance. The award means we’re ranked in the top 5% of all B Corps worldwide in terms of our governance and is recognition of the positive impact we make on our people, society and environment. To become …
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What we know about the Furloughed Employee Scheme

Paul Seath, who runs our employment law update webinar series looked at what we know about Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (AKA the Furloughed Employee Scheme – announced on Friday 20th March). View webinar
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Preventing charity fraud

Recent research shows that charities are increasingly aware of the risk of fraud and defences are improving, but some charities still have much to do. In this guest article, Alan Bryce, Head of Development, Counter Fraud and Cybercrime at the Charity Commission for England & Wales reports on the work the commission is doing to …
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Bates Wells immigration lawyer contributes to Third Sector Updates

Chetal Patel, partner in our Immigration Team, has taken part in the latest edition of Third Sector’s Updates series. Speaking to Emily Burt, deputy editor of Third Sector, Chetal spoke on the subject of whether or not charities are ready to deal with the potential impact of Brexit on their immigration arrangements. In a brief …
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What’s new at the Charity Commission?

Emma Knuckey reports on recent developments at the Charity Commission.
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Real Estate: News in Brief and Recent Deals

We provide a roundup of the Real Estate departments recent deals and news in the sector. Click here to read the full article. 
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Illegal workers: Employers warned as quarterly figures released

UK Visas & Immigration (“UKVI”) has published its quarterly report showing the number of civil penalties for illegal workers found in each region of the UK between 1 October and 31 December 2018 (“the specified period”). During the specified period, the London & South East region was found to have the highest number and greatest …
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