Company Law Changes in 2016 - The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 Note: The requirement to keep a PSC register came into force on 6 April 2016.
In January 2016 the first UK company to be prosecuted for corruption was sentenced to a fine of just over £1.3m, had over £800k confiscated and was ordered to pay £25k in prosecution costs; with two directors being convicted and sentenced (in 2015): Christopher Smith received an 18-monthimprisonment sentence (suspended for two years) for two […]
Landlords have been plagued by the removal of one set of squatters only to find that another set, or indeed the same ones, have returned shortly thereafter. This is particularly more so since the criminalisation of squatting in residential premises in 2012. To remove squatters a landlord would need to obtain an order for possession […]
