16th April 2026

TIMING

COURSE CODE

AP16B6

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. There are a number of important changes to employment law which have been introduced by the government and more changes are planned.  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 statutory changes and key case law from the previous 12 months, as well as what to expect in the next 12 months or so.  The course is updated up to three weeks or so from the date it is presented, so the topics below are only a guide.

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
  • Members of LLPs
• Payroll developments
  • Minimum wage, recent cases 
  • Working time – holidays and holiday pay
  • Reform of SSP and implications
• Family Friendly Reforms – what has happened and what is planned
• Unlawful discrimination – case law round-up and new developments, including recent developments around disability and mental health, gender status and neurodiversity along with age discrimination in a partnership
• Reform of unfair dismissal?

Company Law

•  Directors' duties – new developments
•  Personal liability for directors
•  The new fraud offences
•  Shareholder agreements, disputes and minority protection
•  Share Purchase Agreements and recent case law
•  Issues around succession in a small business and some new cases
•  ECCTA 2023, Companies House reform and new offences

Other Business Law

• Selling a business
• Professional negligence round up

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

 £110+VAT. (click here for information on the Flexiticket discount scheme - fees as low as £64.00+VAT per place)