9th October 2025

TIMING

COURSE CODE

OC09B5

SPEAKER

Louise Dunford 

OBJECTIVES

The course provides a good overview of a number of areas of law, concentrating on the topics likely to be most useful to you in your day to day dealings with clients and staff. Given the current state of uncertainty, and the election imminent at the time of writing, it is difficult to be very specific about most aspects of the content. Therefore, what is laid out below is for guidance only and is fairly generic; not all topics will be covered and some may be subject to modification. Broadly the course will attempt to cover the legal issues that accountants who assist SMEs are likely to deal with or be asked about in the course of their normal work, and will round up all the important case law from the previous 12 months.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Employers and professionals providing advice to small companies and directors of SMEs.

TOPICS

Employment Law

• Employment status, including
  • Recent gig economy and IR35 cases
  • Self-employment generally, directors’ status
• Payroll developments
  • Minimum wage, recent cases 
  • Working time – holidays and holiday pay, working time
  • Tips and gratuities - latest
• Family Friendly Reforms – what has happened and what might happen
• Unlawful discrimination – case law round-up and new developments, including recent developments around disability and mental health
• Current concerns including WFH, hybrid and flexible working

Company Law

•  Directors' duties – new developments
•  Personal liability for directors
•  Shareholder agreements, disputes and minority protection
•  Share Purchase Agreements and recent case law
•  Insolvency law – recent cases
•  ECCTA 2023, Companies House reform and new offences

Other Business Law

• Selling a business
• Data Protection Reform
• Succession Issues in SMEs and considering Business LPAs

VENUE

This course will be available live online. You will be emailed the link to join two days before the course date.

DISTRICT

All

COURSE FEE

 £105+VAT. (click here for information on the Flexiticket discount scheme - fees as low as £62.00+VAT per place)