News & insights

• Ten years of success: Penningtons Manches Cooper partner edits fifth edition of best-selling global Family Law guide
  Posted: 18/01/2021
  The fifth edition of the best-selling publication Family Law: Global Guide, better known to family law practitioners as the ‘Blue Book’, will be published by Thomson Reuters on 31 January 2021......>>
• Doing good at every level: charities and ESG investing
  Posted: 13/01/2021
  In the struggle to protect the Earth’s environment we are all responsible for its current plight and ongoing protection. When contemplated as a whole, the enormity of the sea-change necessary on a personal and wider level to avert environmental disaster can be paralysing. However, as with all great human undertakings, change...…>>
• New code of practice on data sharing provides helpful guidance for charity sector
  Posted: 11/01/2021
  On 17 December 2020 the ICO published its Code of Practice on Data Sharing. The code is statutory guidance under section 121 of the Data Protection Act 2018. The code includes helpful and empowering guidance which will undoubtedly be of assistance to all data controllers including charities...…>>
• Tough decisions for housing providers: juggling strategic choices
  Posted: 11/01/2021
  2020 was a tough year for everyone. Adapting to a new way of life involving periodic lockdowns and ever-changing policies and guidance while trying to carry on ‘as normal’ has impacted everybody, in some shape or form. The social housing sector has seen its fair share of challenges to adapt to, including an initial freeze on the housing market...…>>
• New year, new immigration system: what it means for charities
  Posted: 08/01/2021
  The UK has left the European Union (EU) with a trade deal. Free movement of people from the EU to the UK and vice versa ended at 11pm on 31 December 2020. In preparation for leaving the EU, the UK Government launched a new points-based system under which EU and non-EU citizens will be treated equally...…>>

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E-Bulletins

• Education alert - Tier 5 UK school closures
  Given the Government’s ‘stay at home’ instruction yesterday evening, meaning schools will close for face to face learning until at least early February (except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers), independent schools are, at short notice, having to revert to their online learning provisions.

• Regulatory review - December 2020
  The latest round-up of our regulatory articles (published in November and December) continues to show the broad experience of our regulatory sector group. We have articles on: promoting the circular economy; greenwashing and environmental claims; product regulation, Brexit and UKCA/ EU CE product marking; what the future holds for the labelling of plant-based foods; and the Supreme Court’s Merricks judgment on consumer collective redress.

• Technology update - Autumn 2020
  Welcome to the inaugural edition of the PennTech update, a new regular e-publication from our technology sector team at Penningtons Manches Cooper. This edition focuses on data – as developments and regulatory updates have been coming thick and fast in this area – and we look at international data transfers, regulatory action which is relevant to international organisations and on online trading compliance requirements.

• Employment alert - 5 November 2020
  The Government has announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Scheme”) is being extended until 31 March 2021. The Chancellor indicated in the Commons today that the Scheme will be reviewed in January 2021 and has signalled that employers will be expected to contribute to the Scheme in January, depending on the Country’s economic recovery.

• Employment alert - 28 October 2020
  In a rare age discrimination case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employee was indirectly discriminated against on grounds of age when she was excluded from applying for a promotion because she was not in the employer’s ‘talent pool’.

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Brochures & factsheets

• Academic spinouts - a report on the funding of UK spinouts
  This report from Penningtons Manches builds on work begun in Financing Growth in Innovative Firms, the consultation published as part of the Patient Capital Review. That report identified growing levels of investment into spinouts in the UK in the context of a perceived dearth of capital available on patient terms.
• Charity legacy report 2017 - bridging the gap?
  The charities team at Penningtons Manches saw an increasing need to better understand some of the challenges for charities and probate practitioners when dealing with the specialist area of legacies to charities.
• Data protection survey - Spring 2015
  Earlier this year, the Penningtons Manches data protection team sent an online questionnaire to data protection lawyers in Multilaw firms around Europe to gather and share insight into the current trends and perceptions about data protection regulation across Europe.
• Banking and finance fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches' banking and finance team: we provide clear, practical advice to guide our clients through transactions and issues to help them achieve their goals. We work closely with every client to gain a thorough understanding of their objectives.
• Clinical negligence and personal injury fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches’ clinical negligence and personal injury team: our clinical negligence and personal injury practice is one of the largest in the UK providing nationwide coverage from our offices in London, Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Hampshire and Surrey.
• Commercial fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches' commercial team: our commercial team drafts, reviews and negotiates commercial agreements of all types and at all stages in the development and supply chain.

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