Yearly Archives: 2022

Don’t let your cookie compliance crumble

The price of getting cookie compliance wrong can be costly: in early 2022, for instance, Google and Facebook were together fined over €200 million by the French data protection regulator for cookie-related infringements. Collyer Bristow offers a free service to …

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UK Register of Overseas Entities

On 1 August 2022, the UK’s new Register of Overseas Entities (the “ROE”) came into effect under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022. The ROE, which is maintained by UK Companies House and is available to the public, …

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Case update: Holiday entitlement and pay for part-year workers should not be pro-rated

The Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) (WTRs) entitle workers to take 5.6 weeks’ holiday per year. For a full-time worker on a permanent contract this means that their minimum statutory holiday entitlement is 28 days (inclusive of bank holidays). …

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Can employees stop working when it gets too hot?

Whilst legislation sets a minimum temperature where work can stop, it will surprise many to find that there is no upper limit, says Daniel Zona in the Employment team. “Health and safety legislation sets out a minimum temperature of 16 …

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Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022

On 24 March 2022 the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill received Royal Assent becoming the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022. It offers landlords and certain tenants the opportunity to resolve covid-related rent arrears disputes via a new binding arbitration process. The …

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Collyer Bristow promotes Dan McCarron to Partner in its latest promotion round

Collyer Bristow has announced the promotion of Dan McCarron to Partner in the Real Estate department. Dan’s promotion was effective from 1 June 2022. Dan has been made up to Partner in the Commercial real estate team. He has broad …

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5 tips when seeking Private Equity investment

There is currently a surplus of Private Equity money chasing too few genuinely good investment prospects. If you have previously considered seeking investment from a Private Equity investor there are a number of things you can do in order to …

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Fatigue not considered a disability in circumstances where it was not substantial or long-term

Ms D Navarro (DN) worked for Eurostar International Ltd (EI) in their customer service team. She underwent a double mastectomy in June 2018. Following the surgery DN suffered right breast pain and discomfort and pain in her right arm. This …

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Government publishes Renters Reform Bill

It will, as widely expected, extend greater protections to renters and will see the abolition of section 21 notices that allow landlords to remove tenants without reason – the so-called no-fault evictions. The white paper, which will pave the way …

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