Business Audits
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Legal Compliance for Businesses
We believe the majority of businesses do their best to be in compliance with the law, but because there is so much law out there, it can be tricky to know where to start and understand what your rights and obligations are. The risks of not being legally compliant are, for the most part, obvious: fines, expensive days in court, a loss of reputation and lost time, money and effort.
However, assessments of your business’s legal compliance are not merely actuarial exercises – they can add real value to your business by allowing you to identify opportunities that you would not identified if you did not have a fundamental look at your business.
To help you assess how legally compliant your business is and the risks you are exposed to, we have compiled a range of legal checklists and questionnaires free of charge.
We will be frequently updating this page with new checklists and questionnaires. To get started, please feel free to click on the relevant links below. We sincerely hope they prove to be useful for you and your business.
Business and commercial compliance checklists and questionnaires
- Start-ups
- Company law
- Contracts
- Import & export compliance
- Record keeping and filing
- Duties of directors
- Pre-sale compliance
- Supplier agreements
- Agency agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Business structures
- Consumer law
- Rights of shareholders
- Terms and conditions of trading
- Buying a business
Internal business compliance
- Debt recovery
- Pensions
- Product liability
- Vicarious liability
- Public liability
- Credit control
- Property issues – landlord and tenant disputes, business lease renewal
- Disputes
- Regulation specific to certain sectors
Employment law compliance
- Employment contracts
- Workplace policies
- Equality
- Employment legislation
- Recruitment procedures
- Procedures for absence and sickness
- Procedures for grievances and discipline
- Self-employment/free-lance compliance
- Maternity/paternity leave
- Employment legislation
- Remuneration
- Redundancy
Health & safety law compliance
- Health & safety issues
- Risk assessments
- Fire safety issues
- Record keeping of accidents
- Sickness and absence procedures
Intellectual Property law and IT compliance
- Disclaimers
- E-commerce compliance
- Assets ownership
- Brand protection – trademarks
- Data protection
- Privacy
- Client information security
- E-commerce
- Distance selling compliance
- Computer use in the workplace