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15 February 2012

Legal and tax advice from non-lawyers must be disclosed

The Supreme Court is to hear the appeal in the ‘Prudential’ case against the decision that legal advice privilege does not extend to non-lawyers. Background The purpose of legal advice…

14 February 2012

New arrivals and failure to notify UK tax liability

Until 1 June 2010, foreign nationals or returning UK nationals were required to file a form (P86) informing HMRC of their arrival in the UK and, among other things, their…

14 February 2012

Reforming executive pay – Government proposals and investor concern

There have been a number of recent developments with regard to executive pay. These are summarised below. Department of Business Innovation and Skills In September 2011 the Department of Business…

10 February 2012

CELIA Alliance welcomes leading Polish law firm Soltynski Kaweck & Szlezak (SK&S)

Abbiss Cadres is delighted to announce that SK&S Legal, one of Poland’s leading law firms, has joined its international CELIA Alliance. SK&S was one of the first law firms in…

10 February 2012

CELIA member PRK Partners have been named the Czech Law Firm of the Year 2011

Abbiss Cadres would like to congratulate CELIA Alliance member firm PRK Partners on winning Czech Republic’s most prestigious award for domestic lawyers. Our Czech member firm also won main category…

10 February 2012

CELIA adds four countries in Central and Eastern Europe with addition of new members PRK Partners and Ratiu & Ratiu

Abbiss Cadres’s international alliance CELIA extends its geographical coverage in Central and Eastern Europe to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania with the addition of new members PRK…

1 February 2012

Compensation & Benefits: Normal minimum pension age set to rise to 55 from 6 April 2010

As a general rule a member of a UK registered pension scheme must reach a specified age before he can draw his pension, the normal minimum pension age (“NMPA”).  This…

1 February 2012

Compensation & Benefits: Government issues concession on childcare vouchers, “not a U turn”

In our previous newsletter, we reported that the Government was planning to remove the existing tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) exemptions on childcare vouchers (see link to article in…

1 February 2012

Compensation & Benefits: FRC issues final report on corporate governance and commences consultations on draft revised Combined Code and a new stewardship code

Current Combined Code is “broadly fit for purpose”. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has confirmed that it has found no evidence of “serious failings in the governance of business outside…

1 February 2012

Employment: Consultation equal treatment of agency workers

Last May the UK government reached an accord with the employees and employers bodies (the TUC and CBI) which broke a 9 year deadlock on the proposed EU Agency Workers…