Reports qualifying for CPD hours

Business and Contract Law

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

This briefing will enable you to recognise and deal confidently with the risks and benefits of commercial contracts.

Buying Professional Services

Qualifies for 2 CPD hours

This Report provides essential tips and guidance when choosing and using lawyers and other professional advisers and helps ensure you better understand the process and what exactly you are buying

Commercial Contracts: legal principles and drafting techniques

Qualifies for 3 CPD hours

This briefing takes into account relevant legislation and case law. For all points of the law and critical distinctions, you will find crystal-clear explanations and guidelines, and a host of case studies illustrating the law and its application.

Commercial Litigation: The consequences of breach of contract

Qualifies for 3 CPD hours

This valuable report has been completely updated since it first appeared in 2002: it includes accounts of all the most recent important cases and highlights significant changes in the way that the courts now assess damages.

Company Articles and Company Constitution

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

Understand your Company articles and Company constitution. This Report is written in an easy-to-understand style and provides an in-depth appreciation of such things as all the model articles, the default provision, the resolutions that may be part of the constitution…

Competition Law Compliance: 2008

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

This Special Briefing describes UK competition law referring, where relevant, to EU competition law, to Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty of Rome. It aims above all to be practical and concentrates on what is allowed and what is not, what is advised to ensure compliance and how to make complaints under the Chapter I and Chapter II prohibitions in the Competition Act 1998.

Corporate Governance

Qualifies for 4.5 CPD hours

Jargon-free analysis of the practical application of Corporate Governance with short case studies to illustrate legal requirements.

Data Protection Law for Employers: 2008

Qualifies for 5 CPD hours

This briefing seeks to summarise the application of the Act to the employment discipline. It concentrates on the areas, which are useful and practical to employers by examining the Information Commissioner’s Office code of practice. It answers many of the mundane, day-to-day data protections issues that employers and those who are responsible for personal data need to know.

Defending your Reputation

Qualifies for 2 CPD hours

You almost certainly have detailed procedures in place for dealing with fire, theft, IT failure and so on. But do you have any sort of crisis contingency plan for protecting your reputation. Organisations, large and small, spend huge amounts of time and money on promoting their products, services and image. In today’s world, a good name can be destroyed in a few hours.

Discrimination Law and Employment Issues

Qualifies for 5 CPD hours

The new Age Discrimination Act is billed by lawyers as the most significant change in employment law since the 1970’s.
In addition to sex and race discrimination laws, in the last two years employers have also had to cope with sexual orientation discrimination and religious discrimination. And now from October 2006 age discrimination.

Dismissal and Grievance Procedures

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

This report explains what all the regulations say and what steps you need to take to operate effective dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures. It covers all the requirements of the new Disputes Resolution Procedures that came into effect in October 2004. It tells you where and when the regulations apply – and what you need to do.

E-mail - Legal Issues: 2008

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

An updated version of this best-selling report. It explains clearly where the risks lie and how to establish a sensible policy.

Effective Recruitment - A Practical Guide to Staying Within the Law

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

Most HR practitioners report consistently that recruiting staff is one of their priority topics. Their basic need is to have undertaken that task in an effective, unproblematic way. The ways to undertake the task continue to grow, making the decision as to how best to recruit for a given employment situation more complex. This specialist text is responding to a number of imperatives, including legal ones.

Employee Sickness and Fitness for Work

Qualifies for 6 CPD hours

This specially commissioned report will show you how to get the best out of your employees, from recruitment to retirement, while protecting yourself and your firm to the full.

Employment Law Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practical Guide

Qualifies for 3.5 CPD hours

This Report will help you to understand the key practical and legal issues, achieve consensus and involvement at all levels, understand and implement TUPE regulations and identify the documentation that needs to be drafted or reviewed within the context of a merger, acquisition or disposal.

EU Employment Law - A Practical Guide

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

This Briefing effectively explains the practical impact of law, especially case law, from the European Court of Justice and distinguishes how this law works compared with the common law and UK legislation.

Flexible Working

Qualifies for 2 CPD hours

Recent research shows that far too many individuals, as well as firms, are unaware of flexible working rights. How employers and employees deal with them is of crucial – and increasing – importance to both. This specially commissioned report clarifies the law, sets out the rights of employer and employee and offers valuable practical advice on best practice.

Freedom of Information Act in Practice: 2008

Qualifies for 5 CPD hours

The Freedom of Information Act gives companies and individuals important powers to request information from public bodies. Are you equipped to take advantage and to protect yourself?

International Commercial Agreements

Qualifies for 6.5 CPD hours

The report explains the principles and techniques of successful international negotiation and provides a valuable insight into the commercial points to be considered as a result of the laws relating to pre-contract, private international law, resolving disputes, competition law, drafting common clauses and contracting electronically.

IT Contracts: Effective negotiating and drafting

Qualifies for 3.5 CPD hours

This report provides advice and guidance in explaining and understanding the structure and content of different kinds of IT contracts, for reviewing, negotiating and drafting purposes

IT Governance: Managing Information Technology for Business

Qualifies for 3 CPD hours

This specially commissioned report sets out what the latest legislation says and what it means, its impact on the organization as a whole and on the IT group specifically, and how to implement an effective IT governance initiative in your company.

Managing In-house Legal Services

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

This report captures the vital elements of effective legal department management and provides a guide to the busy in-house practitioner, who needs to balance caseload with the pressures of managing a department.

Mediation: a practical guide

Qualifies for 3.5 CPD hours

A practical guide to taking part in mediation, for the use of lawyers, accountants, surveyors and other professionals who take in part in mediating disputes, but also of value for individuals who are taking part in mediation.

Navigating Health and Safety Law

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

If you have already been challenged by the insurer, inspector, or one of your workforce about the status of your health and safety this report will give you a workable answer to questions like:

Is my health and safety policy legally compliant?
How do I avoid being liable for an employees ill health arising from previous employment?
Who should carry out safety inspections – is it my responsibility?

New TUPE Regulations

Qualifies for 6.5 CPD hours

This timely Special Briefing gives a detailed background to the new TUPE regulations, its impact on your business transfers, your employee’s contracts, pensions, and a host of other important changes and legislative updates.

New Ways of Working

Qualifies for 3 CPD hours

New ways of working examines the nature of the work done in an organisation and seeks to optimise the working practices and the whole context in which the work takes place. It is more about promoting the best ways of doing things than simply cost driven change.

Retention of Title

Qualifies for 2 CPD hours

This Briefing seeks to scotch that popular myth and ensure you, the reader, are put in a position where you can recover goods in such a situation by judicious use of a well drafted “retention of title clause” and ensuring your terms and conditions apply and form part of the contract between the parties.

Software Contract Agreements

Qualifies for 18 CPD hours

Fully up-to-date with all changes to the law, this report is a thorough explanation of the law combined with expert guidance on negotiating and drafting the best contract for your client.

Successfully Defending Employment Tribunal Cases

Qualifies for 5 CPD hours

Sweeping changes to the way ET claims are dealt with have increased the risk of higher costs and more expensive claims. This indispensable report covers all the changes and their implications for HR professionals.

Tax Planning for Businesses and their Owners

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

Written for business owners and managers, this special briefing offers expert advice on the tax implications of your business decisions – guiding you in making the right business and personal choices for tax reduction.

Technical Aspects of Business Leases - Overcoming the Practical Difficulties

Qualifies for 2.5 CPD hours

The purpose of this Report is to highlight areas where technical issues might lead to practical difficulties, and to give clear guidance to help those involved in property management avoid the pitfalls.

The Commercial Exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights by Licensing

Qualifies for 8 CPD hours

This Report will show you, whether as licensor or licensee, how to identify and secure profitable opportunities, strategies and techniques for negotiating the best agreement, and finally the techniques of successfully managing a license operation.

Trade Secrets of Business Acquisitions

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

In this invaluable new Briefing one of the City’s most successful deal-makers distils 40 years’ experience as both principal and advisor.

Trade Secrets of Business Disposals

Qualifies for 4 CPD hours

If you’re like most people, you’ll only get one chance to sell your business and to capitalise on years of hard work and planning. You can either fluff it, or make sure you get the best possible advisor and become financially secure for life, and possibly very rich. This report shows you how to make your business ‘investor-ready’ for maximum capital return.

Websites and the Law 2nd edition

Qualifies for 3 CPD hours

Is your company/client website legal? Do you know what information you are required by law to put on it? What if your domain name is too close to someone else’s? What if someone is diverting people from your website to theirs? What are the laws on copying material from websites? What can you do with people’s personal data sent to your website? This report deals with all the practical legal issues which arise with websites – both those sites which sell goods or services and those which advertise.

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