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Employment Bulletin - January 2024 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employers: what to expect in 2024 Supreme Court confirms Deliveroo riders are not “in employment” Redundancy consultation must take place at a formative stage HMRC warning about filing ERS returns Horizon scanning ... BLOG: The DPT is dead; long live the DPT! Having introduced more than twenty brand-new taxes since the turn of the millennium — at a rate of roughly one new tax per year — did the UK government really announce yesterday the demise of the diverted profits tax (DPT) before it has reached its tenth ... Chambers: Global Practice Guide: Securitisation 2024 – UK Chapter Guy O'Keefe, Richard Jones, Oliver Wicker and David Thomas set out some key legal considerations in the 2024 UK Securitisation Practice Guide for Chambers and Partners. Guy O'Keefe, Richard Jones, Oliver Wicker and David Thomas set out some key l... Embracing Proactive Enforcement: Hong Kong Competition Enforcement Gains Pace The Hong Kong Competition Commission has shown that it is able to initiate its own high-profile cases, move quickly in its investigations, and wrap up cases successfully. In this briefing, we take a look at the highlights from the Commission’s activities ... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter – January 2024 Developments in this month's edition include: Managing climate-related financial stability risks – ECB and ESRB publish joint report ESAs launch consultation on second batch of policy mandates under DORA SSM – SREP results, supervisor... UK Energy and Infrastructure: Reviewing 2023 and what's to come in 2024 In 2023, the UK energy and infrastructure sectors saw a series of significant market and regulatory developments, including the Powering Up Britain package and the passing of the long-awaited Energy Act 2023. With macro-economic challenges expected to con... Listing Regime Reforms: FCA publishes further details of changes and timing Further details of reforms to the listing regime that will take effect later in 2024 were published by the FCA in late December. The long-awaited changes represent the most far-reaching reforms of the listing regime for two decades. This briefing highligh... EPO gets its priorities straight: A clearing-up of the right of priority and underlying rights in patent applications A few days after the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the European Patent Convention (“EPC”), the Enlarged Board of Appeal (“EBA”) of the European Patent Office (“EPO”) handed down some long-awaited clarification ... Seeds of change: Loan financing in 2024 This briefing considers the near-term outlook for the loan market in terms of funding and liquidity, our views on whether the sustainability-linked loan market will return to growth, plus an indication of some other themes and topics that we expect to col... Insurance Outlook 2024 In this briefing we look ahead to some of the key themes likely to affect the insurance sector in 2024.   In this briefing we look ahead to some of the key themes likely to affect the insurance sector in 2024. 2024 – An ele...