- Exempting from health and safety law those self-employed whose work activities pose no potential risk of harm to others. Can't wait to see how they draft this one.....
- Removing a power for employment tribunals to make wider recommendations in successful discrimination cases under the Equality Act 2010. Stripping the Equality Act back to its bare EU law essentials....
- Implementing the Unified Patent Court, part of which will be based in London. This would introduce a single patent system in almost all EU countries making it possible for British businesses to protect their inventions across countries in a single application. Any disputed applications would be held in the UK. This is one is beyond my purview....
- Consumer law: Provide clarity in areas where the law has not kept up with technological advances. For example, setting out clearer consumer rights for the quality of digital content like e-books and software. Easier access to compensation where there have been breaches of consumer or competition law. For example, new powers for enforcers (such as Trading Standards) to seek a court to require compensation to be paid to consumers where consumer law is breached. More powers for Trading Standards and other enforcement authorities to require traders, through the courts, to compensate consumers where they have breached consumer law. About time somebody looked at this mish mash of law.
- Mesothelioma - Scheme of last resort funded by a levy on the UK Employers’ Liability market to correct a market failure where insurers failed to keep adequate records of Employers’ Liability insurance during historic times when exposures to asbestos were taking place. I support this.
Not quite as hectic as in previous years...............
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