Upcoming Law Categories
Early warning of upcoming law and government consultations, so you can have your say and to help you anticipate and prepare for change.
- Environmental Liability Directive
- Climate Change Bill
- Corporate responsibility for litter
- Effective redress for breaches of competition law
- Reform of the Partnership Act 1890 and the Limited Partnerships Act 1907
- EU Services Directive
- Modernising insurance contract law
- Insurance block exemption
- VAT on insurance and outsourcing services
- Reform of EC legislation on VAT treatment of financial services and insurance
- Fast-track applications for patents and trade marks
- Audiovisual Media Services Directive
- Amendment of Directive 98/71/EC on design protection of visible car spare parts
- Penalties for copyright infringement
- Industrial Property Rights Strategy for Europe
- Climate Change Act 2008
- Increased powers for Information Commissioner
- Class action lawsuits
- Proposed introduction of mandatory electronic share transfers
- Review of European data protection law
- Misuse of personal data
- Controls on handling, transferring and transporting waste
- Reducing health and safety forms and record keeping
- Non-contractual cross-border disputes
- European Small Claims Procedure
- EU Directive on Consumer Rights
- Protection of vulnerable agency workers
- Welfare Reform Act 2007
- Increase in minimum statutory holiday entitlement
- Sick-note changes
- testtestNew vetting and barring scheme
- Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
- Simplifying immigration law
- Working Time Directive revision
- European Green Paper on Modernising Labour Law
- Dispute Resolution Procedures
- Extension of right to request flexible working
- Right to request time off to train
- Agency Workers Directive
- Acas code of practice on dispute resolution procedures
- Enforcement of national minimum wage
- Draft Equality Bill
- Additional paternity leave
- Pensions savings scheme
- Broadcasting Treaty
- Immigration appeals
- National Equality Panel
- Extension of right to request time off for civic roles
- National minimum wage: service charges and tips
- Protecting disabled people from indirect discrimination
- New maternity rights
- Personal accounts scheme for pensions