Law360: Employers must anticipate scenarios of potential sexual harassment and act to protect their staff if they are to comply with a new preventative duty, the equalities watchdog said 26 September 2024.

Dispute resolution analysis: This case is a useful reminder to practitioners of the less draconian form of search order, the doorstep delivery-up order. The key difference is that an applicant is not entitled to conduct the search him or herself (by their lawyers), but rather attends (but does not enter) the respondent’s property to demand immediate delivery of certain documents. Pepperall J provides a useful summary of the legal framework, as well as reminding applicants about what is or is not permitted in a without notice application. The judge also comments on the extent to which ‘gagging’ (or ‘non-disclosure’) orders may be made against respondents, preventing those respondents from tipping each other or third parties off about either or both the application or the underlying claim. Written by Matthew McGhee, barrister at 20 Essex Street.

Doorstep selling means certain contracts for goods and services concluded between a trader and a consumer away from a trader’s place of business (an off-premises contract), for example at a consumer’s house or in the street.

A company is dormant when it has no significant accounting transaction.

This Practice Note examines a dormant company's ongoing obligations under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006), in particular, those relating to accounts and audit. It considers the form and content of the accounts that a dormant company must prepare and file at Companies House and in what circumstances such accounts will be exempt from audit. A dormant company is constituted and managed in the same way as any other company. However, the requirements relating to accounts and audit that generally apply to a company are relaxed in relation to a dormant company. What is a dormant company? A company is dormant during any period in which it has had no significant accounting transaction. A significant accounting transaction is one which the company should enter in its accounting records pursuant to CA 2006, s 386 and does not include: • any transaction arising from the taking of shares in the company by a subscriber to the memorandum of association as a result of an undertaking of his in connection with the formation of the company, or • any

An exemption from the requirement to audit individual accounts for a financial year available to companies that meet the statutory requirements. A dormant company's annual accounts for a financial year must be audited, unless the company is exempt from audit because: —it has been dormant since incorporation, or —it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and, in the current financial year, is not required to prepare group accounts (whether IAS group accounts or Companies Act group accounts) but: ? is entitled to prepare individual accounts in accordance with the small companies regime, or ? would be entitled to prepare individual accounts in accordance with the small companies regime, but for the fact that it is a public company or a member of an ineligible group

For family lawyers and divorcing parties, the impact of bankruptcy can have a dramatic affect on divorce proceedings and can (in the right circumstances) mean that the family court has no jurisdiction to deal with any financial relief applications (including property adjustment applications). This impact has been subject to a number of cases in both the bankruptcy and family courts. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for bankruptcy proceedings to be in existence at the same time that divorce proceedings are ongoing and concurrent proceedings can create conflict when it comes to the division of assets. Whereas the family court will look to make an order on the assets (known as a property adjustment order) taking into account, among other things, the future needs of the parties and the children, the bankruptcy court will look to divide the assets on a real property basis, with the creditors' needs at the forefront. This potential conflict needs to be carefully considered and the timing of when the bankruptcy proceedings were opened

Measurement characterising the exposure of individuals subjected to radiation. The term ‘dose’ is often mistakenly used instead of ‘dose equivalent’. (a) Absorbed dose: quantity of energy absorbed by matter (living or inert) exposed to radiation. It is expressed in Grays (Gy). (b) Dose equivalent: in living organisms, an absorbed dose has different effect depending on the type of radiation (alpha, beta and gamma). To take these differences into account, a dosemultiplying factor is used to produce a “dose equivalent”. (c) Effective dose: sum of weighted dose equivalents deposited on various tissues and organs by internal and external irradiation. The unit of measurement for effective dose is the Sievert (Sv). (d) Lethal dose: fatal dose of nuclear or chemical origin. (e) Maximum permissible dose: dose that must not be exceeded for a given period of time.

The process of limiting radiation doses to individuals. Also known as the third radiation protection principle.

The dose rate is the quotient of dose and time. For example, REM or Sieverts per hour.

Instrument for measuring dose'>absorbed dose.

The theory and application of the principles and techniques involved in the measurement and recording of ionising radiation doses. What is calculated is the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to ionising radiation.