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Legislation round-up

05 May 2009
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Legislation news update

In force
6 Apr 2009

Legislation
Employment Code of Practice (Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures) Order 2009 (SI 2009/771)

Summary
Appointed 6 April 2009 as the day upon which the Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures issued by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) came into effect. Provides that the ACAS code does not apply in circumstances where the statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures apply. The repeal of the statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures is subject to the transitional arrangements in the Employment Act 2008 (Commencement No 1 Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008 (SI 2008/3232). A copy can be obtained from the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, Employment Relations Directorate, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET or at www.berr.gov.uk.

In force
Apr 2009

Legislation
Second-stage Increase in Merger Fees Postponed (Enterprise Act 2002)

Summary
BERR has postponed the second stage increase in merger fees, which was due this month. The Enterprise Act 2002 (EnA 2002) provides for fees to be payable to recover the costs of the regulatory consideration of mergers. Section

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NEWS
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims
Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power
Michael Zander KC, emeritus professor at LSE, revisits his long-forgotten Crown Court Study (1993), which surveyed 22,000 participants across 3,000 cases, in the first of a two-part series for NLJ
Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) was a landmark test of how UK law applies to AI training—but does it leave key questions unanswered, asks Emma Kennaugh-Gallagher of Mewburn Ellis in NLJ this week
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