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By John Hyde2021-02-16T10:31:00+00:00
A former solicitor who acted as a director for the collapsed government-funded charity Kids Company has been cleared of wrongdoing by a court ruling.
Jane Tyler, who retired from practice in 2009, was one of a number of individuals subject to a bid by the Official Receiver to be disqualified from other organisations, following the charity’s liquidation in 2015.
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The Official Receiver v Atkinson & Ors, Mrs Justice Falk cleared all the defendants of any wrongdoing, concluding she was ‘wholly satisfied’ that a disqualification order was not any warranted against any of the former trustees, and the public needed no protection from them.
Service by trustees must never again be repaid by such gross injustice , Kids Company lawyers warn
Bates Wells says it hopes that the outcome will mean good people are not be deterred from serving as charity trustees
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Change to visa concessions may have scuppered new year hiring
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A recent change to Covid-19-related concessions for work visa applicants may have prevented some firms from hiring overseas workers from 1 January, immigration experts have said.
According to law firm Bates Wells, Home Office guidance for work visa applicants changed at 5:32pm on 23 December, when some organisations would have closed for Christmas, to state that people still awaiting a decision on their visa application can only begin working for a new employer if they have been assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) before 1 January 2021, or are applying under the new Health and Care Visa. They must also have submitted their application before their current visa expired.
Employers face quandaries over taking on workers from EU
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Employers are accelerating recruitment plans to bring foreign hires into the UK by 31 December to avoid sponsorship fees and being entangled in confusing guidance, say immigration lawyers.
From 1 January 2021, free movement will end and the new immigration system will treat EU and non-nationals the same. EU nationals may need to be sponsored by an employer, which will need a sponsor licence. Small businesses pay £536, with the fee rising to up to £1,476 for medium and large businesses – prices that have been in place since 1 December.
EU nationals who arrive in the UK by 11pm on 31 December 31 then have six months in which to apply for residency under the EU settlement scheme, which does not cost anything.