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How the Creative Worker route operates in different fields For applications for entry clearance and permission submitted on or after 16 May 2024, when assigning a Certificate of Sponsorship in the Creative Worker route, the sponsor must ensure either that: • the applicant complies with the relevant Code of Practice, where one exists for the occupation they would be working in, or • where no relevant Code of Practice exists for the occupation, the applicant must: ◦ be performing a role in the creative industries that appears in Immigration Rules, Appendix Skilled Occupations, and ◦ be able to demonstrate that they can make a unique contribution to creative life in the UK Prior to this change, where no relevant Code of Practice existed, the role either had to appear in the Shortage Occupation List (SOL) (replaced by the Immigration Salary List from 4 April 2024) or the sponsor had to be satisfied that it could not have been filled by a settled worker, having taken into account...
Ireland—Commercial horizon scanner 2025 This Practice Note provides a summary of the key legal developments that are expected to impact Irish commercial lawyers during 2025 and beyond. It also summarises the key developments which have already taken place in 2025. This Practice Note does not cover developments in the EU, for EU commercial legislative and regulatory developments, see: Trackers (EU Law)—overview. Feel free to suggest issues that may be covered in our horizon scanner using: irelandcurrentawareness@lexisnexis.com. Bills This section contains information on the progress of Irish government bills and private members bills relevant to commercial practitioners from proposal to the passage of the bills as they pass through both houses of the Oireachtas—Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann—before being signed into law by the President. Bill title Next/last key date Analysis Further material Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024 19 February 2025 This Bill is currently before the Seanad Éireann, third stage. The Bill will seek to amend Article 29 of the Constitution...
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Data protection privacy notice (secondment—employer to employee) [Insert name of organisation] Data protection privacy notice (secondment) As you know, it is proposed that you will be seconded to [insert name] (host employer). This notice explains what personal data (information) [insert name of employer][ trading as [insert trading name, if different]] (‘we’ or ‘Company’) will share with, and receive from, your host employer for the purposes of your secondment. We are required to notify you of this information under data protection legislation. Please ensure that you read this notice (sometimes referred to as a ‘privacy notice’) and any other similar notice we may provide to you from time to time when we collect or process personal data about you. This privacy notice As set out in the [data protection privacy notice (employment)], the Company is a ‘controller’ and gathers and uses certain data about you.[ This data is also used by our affiliated entities and group companies, namely [insert details or a link, or otherwise show where details of...
EU GDPR—standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for compliance with Article 28(3) EU GDPR by Danish supervisory authority This is a set of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for compliance with Article 28(3) of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR), governing relationships between controllers and processors and published by the Danish data protection supervisory authority (the Danish SCCs). It was published following an opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). The Danish SCCs should not be confused with SCCs relating to international personal data transfers under Chapter V of the EU GDPR. Access the Danish SCCs Click the link below to download the agreement from the EDPB’s website: Standard Contractual Clauses for compliance with Article 28(3) of the EU GDPR published by the Danish supervisory authority (the Danish SCCs) Background As detailed in Practice Note: Supply chains under EU GDPR—arrangements between controllers and processors, Article 28(3) of the EU GDPR requires that controllers and processors put in place a contract which contains certain minimum terms (unless the...
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Do I need approval for the owners, officers and managers of my law firm under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017? The requirement for approval Under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017), SI 2017/692, reg 26, as amended, all beneficial owners, officers and managers of relevant firms, including law firms, and relevant sole practitioners must be approved by their supervisory authority. The requirement applies to: • independent legal professionals • auditors, insolvency practitioners, external accountants and tax advisors • estate agents and letting agents • high value dealers • art market participants Not all law firms meet the definition of independent legal professional. For the purposes of the MLR 2017, an independent legal professional is a firm or sole practitioner who by way of business provides legal or notarial services to other persons when participating in (ie assisting in planning or execution of transactions or otherwise acts for or on behalf of a client) financial or real property...
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Information Law analysis: On 28 March 2025 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its guidance on anonymisation and pseudonymisation under the UK GDPR (the Guidance). A long time coming, with drafts and sector-specific guidance published intermittently since 2021, the Guidance offers a practical response to addressing key concerns around compliant use of pseudonymised and anonymised data, especially in the context of data sharing, advanced analytics and modern technologies available to the ‘motivated intruder’. Written by Alex Jameson & Steph Ong of Bird & Bird
Information law analysis: As the dust settles on the arrival of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organisations big and small are still getting to grips with what the changes on such fundamental legislation will entail. Derek Hamill, partner and head of Corporate at Gilson Gray LLP, provides a few thoughts on issues that unincorporated associations and their lawyers will want to bear in mind.
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