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Becca joined Sparqa Legal as a Legal Editor in 2024 after transferring from FromCounsel. She previously worked as a caseworker at Advocate, the bar’s pro bono charity. Becca regularly writes for Sparqa’s blog, covering topics including employment, health and safety, intellectual property, and company law.
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Becca joined Sparqa Legal as a Legal Editor in 2024 after transferring from FromCounsel. She previously worked as a caseworker at Advocate, the bar’s pro bono charity. Becca regularly writes for Sparqa’s blog, covering topics including employment, health and safety, intellectual property, and company law.
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Becca joined Sparqa Legal as a Legal Editor in 2024 after transferring from FromCounsel. She previously worked as a caseworker at Advocate, the bar’s pro bono charity. Becca regularly writes for Sparqa’s blog, covering topics including employment, health and safety, intellectual property, and company law.
What’s on the horizon?
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- 27 January 2025: the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 come into force. These Regulations widen the scope of protecting residential addresses on the companies register while maintaining transparency.
- 31 January 2025: the government’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence consultation will close. This initiative aims to address challenges to the creative industry posed by AI.
- 25 February 2025: the Women and Equalities committee’s Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave call for evidence will close.
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A certificate which a shareholder in a company is entitled to receive, evidencing ownership of the shares they hold.