by DNH (BD) | Apr 28, 2021 | Employment Law
When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, the job market was hit: employers with a conservative outlook were looking to cost-cutting and retrenchment due to the uncertain economy. Some employers reconsidered new hires and retracted job offers. Do candidates have any...
by DNH (BD) | Apr 26, 2021 | Employment Law
In advising employers about retrenchment, the usual advice is that there must be a “genuine redundancy”. There are many cases which explain what amounts to a genuine redundancy, and we won’t repeat the definitions here. However, many employers (and sometimes,...
by DNH (BD) | Apr 19, 2021 | Corporate and Commercial
Dividends are often known as the “fruits of investment”, paid to shareholders for the risks taken in their capital investment into a business. Paying dividends is the primary way for companies to distribute its retained profits and cash to its shareholders. There may...
by DNH (BD) | Apr 14, 2021 | Corporate and Commercial
Implementing an Employee Share Incentive Scheme to weather the COVID Storm? Covid-19 has caused unexpected financial hardships to many businesses, with companies having to conserve their cash outflows in order to stay solvent. Yet, in these challenging and uncertain...
by DNH (BD) | Apr 12, 2021 | Employment Law
The doctrine of sovereign immunity or state immunity is a legal doctrine where one sovereign state cannot be sued before the courts of another sovereign state without its unequivocal consent. The rationale “par in parem non habet imperium” (equals have no sovereignty...
