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Company, business and employment law update

During this webinar you’ll receive a comprehensive review of the critical legal developments in the last year, relevant to SMEs and the accountants advising them

Overview

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This session is essential for accountants advising small and medium-sized businesses. It will explore key areas of legal regulation that are most likely to impact clients, and, in some cases, the practice itself.

The session will cover a range of topics and include important new developments up to the date of the course.

Company Law

  • ECCTA news and implementation update
  • revisiting directors' duties, and the Post Office scandal - what does it teach us?
  • the demise of the shareholder rule and its implications
  • share classes - why do they matter?
  • Forfeiture of shares – new case
  • Registers of shares – the November changes
  • Unfair prejudice – what do the new cases tell us?

 

Business Law

  • Post termination restrictions, a reminder of how businesses can be protected and some new litigation
  • TUPE developments
  • Professional negligence update
  • The Entertainer and the EOT
  • Interesting contract developments

 

Employment Law

  • Employment status including gig employment,, members of LLPs and recent IR35 developments
  • Illegal working
  • April and October 2025 changes
  • Employment Rights Act update, what is happening in 2026?
  • Payroll issues, including minimum wage, holidays, tips and gratuities latest
  • Absence management in the light of SSP changes and generally
  • Unlawful discrimination - recent developments, in particular changes to obligations on sexual harassment, situation following Supreme Court decision on gender, and disability issues
  • Developments in unfair dismissal and redundancy

Louise has been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987 and am a qualified barrister. Louise provides advice and assistance to employers through a consultancy company, CompleteHR Ltd, and have also engaged in CPD training for most of the national accountancy training bodies and district societies in the UK for many years. Louise is involved in management training, particularly in employment and HR, for many large multinational and national commercial companies. Louise has also worked as an occasional associate senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, mainly on the MBA, MA Personnel Management and MA Business Law. Louise has published academic papers in refereed journals, chiefly on employment status and corporate manslaughter.

The webinar handout material will be available on the webinar platform when you log in to view, 15 minutes before the live webinar start.

If you wish to view or download handout materials before the day of the webinar, they will also be available through your document library on https://events.accaglobal.com.

If you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will have access to a recording of the event for 12 months. 

Price

Price (excluding VAT) 133 GBP

Location

United Kingdom

Date & time

13 November 2025, 09:30 - 16:30

Enquiries

Email enquiries UKCL@accaglobal.com

Course provider

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