£90+VAT. (Click here for information on the Flexiticket discount scheme - fees as low as £39.60+VAT per place)

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. Employment law, in particular is an area subject to enormous change, particularly in the current economic climate, and the course covers a number of key areas and gives solid practical advice for the small employer, which of course may be you or your clients

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

Eployment Law:The main areas explored will be:

• Employment status
• Useful terms to include when drafting employment contracts
• Working time and minimum wage issues
• Discrimination including the impact of the Equality Act 2010 and all the new cases
• Disability discrimination and dealing with sickness
• Developments in unfair dismissal and April 2011 changes for claimants taking cases to tribunal
• Good redundancy process – what is redundancy and how can redundancies be handled properly?

Company Law continues to develop following the implementation of the Companies Act 2006.  The course examines the main issues affecting small practitioners and SMEs.

• Directors duties and liabilities
• Protecting the minority in a small company
• Important company law cases in the last 12 months
• A few current insolvency issues

As far as time allows we will also look at

• Developments in data protection
• Professional negligence – new cases