Compliance & Legal

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man" - John Selden (1584 - 1654)

Company Law

Company Law can be a minefield. Confidence offers the following services:

  • Advice on what company structure to choose.
  • How to register a limited company; what forms have to be filled in and what to expect after incorporation. Helping businesses to understand their own memorandum and articles of association - this is the rule book of how the business is conducted.
  • Advice as to what a company director and company secretary is; what they can and can't do legally and what other non-legal duties are placed on them. This incorporates health and safety obligations. Good governance - who should be a director in a company - how to choose carefully.
  • Company Structure.
  • Drafting company minutes, board resolutions, Companies House forms and incorporation documents.

Contract Law

Confidence can assist with drafting in the following areas:

  • Confidentiality Agreements
  • Service Agreements
  • Distribution Agreements
  • Licence Arrangements
  • Sale, Purchase and Outsourcing Agreements

 

Health, Safety and Environment

Confidence can:

  • Help businesses interpret the law in this area and assess what "reasonably practicable" means for them.
  • Draft health and safety policies.
  • Help businesses keep up to speed with changes in legislation and how to maintain a ‘safe place of work' and of the potential personal penalties being placed upon directors and other officers.
  • Educate businesses that the ‘safe place of work' applies as much to protect employees from stress, harassment, bullying, discrimination etc as it does to physical dangers and risk.

Employment Law

As your workforce expands you will need to issue contracts of employment to protect your rights and those of your employees. The law changes really quickly in this area and so as an employer you need to keep your eye on the ball. Confidence offers a service for:

  • Drafting contracts of employment and consultancy agreements.
  • Working with businesses to put together company policies and staff handbooks.
  • Discipline and dismissal procedures.
  • Handling Trade Unions.