Company, business and employment law update

This event was recorded on 15 May 2025

This session will be invaluable for an accountant advising small and medium sized businesses and will cover the most relevant areas of legal regulation likely to affect clients, and in some cases, the practice itself.

The session will cover some or all of the following topics and include any important new developments up to the date of the course.

Company Law Update

• Impact of Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 and implementation details
• Companies House changes
• New corporate offences, including recent guidance
• Implementation practicalities
• New filing penalties
• Directors’
• Duties – new cases and a look at the Post Office scandal and what it teaches us
• Incapacity of directors
• Shareholders
• Disputes and minority protection
• Forfeiture of Shares
• Succession in small businesses – two key cases and general issues
• Share Purchase Agreements – pitfalls and recent litigation
• Sale of a Business – issues to address
  
  

Business law update

• Professional Negligence – recent developments
• General Partnerships and what defines a partnership
• LLPs and the Significant Influence test
  
  

Employment Law Update

• Employment status – new cases and developments in this area
• Flexible working – practicalities and cases
• Payroll issues
• Holiday – recent cases, carry over and holiday pay for casuals
• Tips and Gratuities
• Minimum wage
• Employment Law Reform - summary of what we know and implications including family friendly rights, flexible working, harassment, unfair dismissal rights
• Issues around social media and beliefs
• Age discrimination and the Walker Morris case
• Absence management
• Disability and dealing with neurodiversity
• Dismissal – an overview
• Redundancy procedure and pitfalls
• Any recent developments including on restrictive covenants, franchisees and good faith (Vodafone), and professional negligence

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.

This event is organised by ACCA Continuous Learning Team.

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