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Obtaining a Sponsor Licence from the Home Office: what do business owners need to know?

Many UK businesses simply cannot source the staff that they need from the UK labour market, particularly following the end of free movement from the EU, and therefore need to cast their net wider to fill vacancies. A Skilled Worker visa allows foreign nationals to come to or stay in the UK to do an eligible job with an approved employer. This visa has replaced the Tier 2 (General) work visa.

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How has withdrawing from the EU affected the UK's data protection regime?

Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU at the start of 2021, the UK was left with a bridging period during which data flows could continue unhindered between the EU and the UK. Towards the end of the bridging period, the EU issued an Adequacy Decision, confirming that the UK’s data protection regime is sufficiently equivalent to the EU’s regime.

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Safeguarding your valuable business information

Whether you are designing a confidential new product, developing a new design, engineering, manufacturing or industrial technique, a brand new way of doing business, or simply a better way of doing what others in your industry have done the same way for years, no business wants to see someone else take unfair advantage of their ideas, efforts and expense.

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License in Haste – Repent at Leisure!

A recent High Court case has, once again, reminded owners and licensees of IP rights of the importance of making sure they carefully word IP licences. Otherwise, they may end up having to resolve their differences of interpretation before the Courts – a not altogether cheap or quick solution.

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Model clauses: the lay of the land

On 4 June 2021 the European Commission published new Standard Contractual Clauses, EU SCCs – set contract wording to safeguard personal data being exported to a third country, by a party which is subject to the EU GDPR.

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