All Company Risk articles – Page 52
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Features
Licensing in IPR
Simon Harper discusses the points to watch for when acquiring rights to use other people's intellectual property.
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Features
Socially responsible investing
Hugh Ferrand describes recent developments in socially responsible investing and his own company's response to the challenge.
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Analysis
H&S policy proposals
Solicitors Lovells have summarised a UK-wide 44-point action plan of policy initiatives and proposals for future legislation to cut workplace deaths, injuries and illness.
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Features
Health, safety and reputation
A recent survey shows that health and safety issues have a significant influence on corporate reputation. Neville Purvis believes companies should take a positive approach.
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Features
Fighting off predators
The immediate reaction of most managements to a takeover approach is negative. Sue Copeman discusses strategies for fighting a hostile bid.
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Features
Sleeping with the enemy
Shareholders are about to flex their muscles and gain real power, predicts Leon Pein.
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Features
Early intervention and rehabilitation
David Shillaker says getting injured employees back to work quickly can benefit your bottom line.
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Analysis
Disability discrimination good practice
From 2004, service providers will have to make "reasonable adjustments" to the physical features of their premises to overcome access barriers.
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Analysis
Distance selling directive
Solicitors Paisner & Co warn that UK on-line retailers and others selling goods "at a distance" should ensure compliance with new EU rules to be implemented shortly.
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Features
Effective environmental due diligence
Environmental risks present both practical and legal challenges, quite unlike other factors you have to consider in a merger or acquisition, say David Hockin, Tanya Lloyd Jones & William Butterworth.
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Analysis
NAPF backs report on company law reform
On 1 August, the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) publicly backed the "considered and measured" approach of the company law steering group.
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Features
The polluter pays not always!
Richard Ford discusses the implications of the new regime on contaminated land.
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Analysis
UK ruling alerts ALARM
The UK House of Lords ruling on 27 July in Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon has important risk management implications for local education authorities and the public sector in general.
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Analysis
Freedom of information - new risks
The Freedom of Information Bill will give citizens access to information held by public authorities.
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Analysis
Environmental liability paper
The deadline for submissions on the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability, adopted in February, is 1 July
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Analysis
E-commerce liability
Internet service providers may be subject to the same libel laws as other media organisations.
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Analysis
Discount rates review
The Lord Chancellor should announce a decision this summer on the level of discount rates.
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Analysis
Data protection
The new Data Protection Act extends the 1984 legislation in a number of areas and provides data subjects with some additional rights.
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Analysis
Energy tax concerns
UK companies are anxious about likely damage to business arising from the Kyoto environmental protection measures.
