Author: Dane Kenyon

If your business is taking on staff in the Dubai International Financial Centre, the employment visa is usually the first thing that comes up, and the first thing that gets confused with the DIFC employment contract itself. The two are connected but separate. This guide sets out how the DIFC employment visa process broadly works,…

DEWS stands for the DIFC Employee Workplace Savings plan. It is a mandatory, defined contribution workplace savings scheme that replaced the traditional end of service gratuity for employees working in the Dubai International Financial Centre. If you employ staff in the DIFC, or you are an employee trying to work out what DEWS actually means…

Taking on staff in the Dubai International Financial Centre for the first time is unfamiliar territory for most UK businesses, and the contract is where that unfamiliarity tends to show. DIFC Employment Law No. 2 of 2019 sets out a specific list of terms a written contract must include, and treats several of them as…

Receiving contact from the SRA about a potential investigation is unsettling for any solicitor or law firm. The process is unfamiliar, the stakes are significant, and the SRA’s communications can be difficult to interpret without prior experience of regulatory proceedings. This guide explains how the SRA investigation process works in practice, from the initial trigger…

The solicitors accounts rules sit at the heart of how SRA-regulated law firms handle client money. Get them right and the firm protects its clients, its reputation and its authorisation. Get them wrong and the consequences range from an accountant’s qualified report to a full SRA investigation. This guide sets out what the rules require,…