Wedlake Bell Insights

    • Globally Speaking
    • Oct 31, 2024

    Globally Speaking: Stop press the Autumn Budget 2024

    In this “stop press” edition of our Globally Speaking e-bulletin, we provide our initial thoughts on the most highly anticipated Budget in the UK for a generation; the first by a Labour government in fourteen years and more significantly the

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    • Legal Podcast
    • Oct 16, 2024

    Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace (part 2)

    Part 2 of our Employment Podcast celebrating World Mental Health Day is here! Listen to Employment Partner Stephen Ravenscroft and Senior Partner Camilla Wallace continue their conversation about mental health challenges in the workplace. How are employers raising awareness of

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    • Insights
    • Oct 11, 2024

    The Employment Rights Bill – Major updates

    The Employment Rights Bill has now been laid down in parliament. It includes 28 new measures aimed at protecting workers rights and the Government has said it is “the biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation”. The most

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    • Insights
    • Oct 2, 2024

    Dos Santos v Unitel SA

    The appellant, Ms dos Santos, an entrepreneur and daughter of the former President of Angola, founded Unitel SA (Unitel), Angola’s largest mobile telecoms company in 1998. She was a director of the company until August 2020 and the beneficial owner

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    • Succession: Family Offices
    • Sep 30, 2024

    What does it mean to be a responsible steward of wealth?

    Wealth holders have always been stewards of their own wealth; increasingly that stewardship requires wealth holders to act responsibly. But what does being a responsible wealth steward mean, and who is this responsibility to, and why does it matter? The

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    • Insights
    • Sep 26, 2024

    Code of practice on the new tipping act – What employers need to know

    The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (the “Tipping Act”) comes into force on 1 October 2024. The Department for Business and Trade has recently published its Code of Practice on the Fair and Transparent Distribution of Tips (the “Code”),

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    • Legal Podcast
    • Aug 19, 2024

    Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – Episode 2

    In the next edition of the Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast, Legal Director Choy Lau and Solicitor George Cornell discuss the potential changes to employment law under the new Labour Government following the King’s Speech and the top three changes that

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    • Insights
    • Aug 9, 2024

    Private Client Legal Update – August 2024

    Some key highlights of legal updates affecting the Private Client industry over the past month are as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Budget On 29 July, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a fiscal update to Parliament in which she announced that

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