Update on health and safety and employment issues. Chaired by Mark Heighton.

Details of the speakers and outline topics are as follows:

Susan Hankey, Partner, Competition and Procurement: Grounds for complaint: current issues in procurement

• Are you being treated fairly? What the contracting authority gets wrong: undisclosed criteria; jumbled processes; inadequate debriefing; award of services not advertised
• Do you know your procurement rights? The new rules on remedies and "contractual ineffectiveness"
• Can you rely on framework agreements anymore? Implications of recent NI judgments
• Auroux v Roanne: new OGC guidance on implications for developers

Jan Burgess, Partner, Head of HSE: Health and Safety update

• The New H and S Offences Act - in force Jan 2009 - Far more stringent penalties for all H and S offences - imprisonment of individuals a possibility in almost all cases now.
• Corporate Manslaughter (not another seminar!) and how to mitigate
• Managing subcontractors - and why this is a risk area for developer/investors/clients

Sophie White, Senior Associate, Employment: Employment issues in the downturn

• Top ten ways to avoid redundancy
• A guide to best practice when dealing with redundancies if all else fails

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