Overview

This course will cover the most recent developments in company, commercial and employment law in the period leading up to the course. It will include some or all of the following, depending on the most recent cases and government announcements.

The course is suitable for all accountants at every level advising SMEs as well as directors of small and medium sized businesses. It is designed to promote awareness of all the legal issues likely to affect the advice you give to your clients.

Key features

• Company Law Update
  • • • Recent developments on directors’ duties and shareholder rights
      • Liability of directors in insolvency – recent cases
      • Shareholders’ agreements, and minority protection
      • Reflective loss – the Supreme Court has spoken
      • Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act – key provisions
      • Reform to pre-packs
      • Company law after Brexit
• TUPE update
• Contract law – indemnities and avoiding onerous contracts
• Current law and proposed reform of restrictive covenants/restraint of trade?
• Professional negligence – what has been happening?
• Employment Law Developments
  • • • Status and the Uber decision
      • IR35 – where do we stand since April 2021?
      • Legislative change from April 2021
      • Minimum wage and the Royal Mencap decision, working time developments
      • Restructuring and redundancy after Covid
      • Recent discrimination cases
      • Hybrid Working after Covid
      • Dismissal and whistleblowing round up

Recorded on 7 December 2021. 

Louise Dunford.

I have been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987 and am a qualified barrister. I provide 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. I am involved in management training, particularly in employment and HR, for many large multinational and national commercial companies. I have also worked as an occasional associate senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, mainly on the MBA, MA Personnel Management and MA Business Law. I have published academic papers in refereed journals, chiefly on employment status and corporate manslaughter.

6 CPD units

1 hour of learning = 1 unit of CPD.

ACCA members can use this learning to meet their CPD requirements provided it is relevant to their career. If the event contributes to general knowledge and skills, it should be recorded as non-verifiable CPD. If the learning can be applied in the workplace, it will contribute to verifiable CPD.

Fee: 115 GBP + VAT (138 GBP) per delegate

Please note: Once you have purchased this webinar, it will be available for you to view for 12 months. 

This event is organised by ACCA UK Continuous Learning Team.

If you have any queries regarding this event please contact us on:

UKCL@accaglobal.com