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DBA members have access to free legal advice and free business management and financial advice helplines.

Legal Packages
All employers must comply with the law whether they employ one person or thousands. The DBA expects members to improve their businesses by making sure that they comply with employment law and improve the way that they manage staff.

As part of the ongoing development of DBA benefits and services available to members, we are launching a series of free legal packages. Along with these packages you will find guidance notes and additional sources for information.

Only DBA members can access this area, and you must be logged in. If you are a DBA member and do not know your password, please email us at membership@dba.org.uk

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In additional to the personal contact of the advice helplines the DBA provides you and your consultancy with tailored PDF guides on all areas affecting the running of your consultancy.

Please log in to access the library of Guides which include:

Design Management guides for your clients
Choosing & appointing a design consultancy
Managing Corporate Identity Programmes
Managing Interior Design Projects
Managing Packaging Design Projects
Managing Product Design Projects

Other guides that members can download free of charge include:

Intellectual Property

Standard Terms & Conditions

Exporting your Services

Legal guides
Business Contracts
Business Names Act 1985
Business Premises – Law and Practice
Business Structure – Different forms of
Competition Act 1998
Consumer Credit
Data Protection Act 1998
Data Protection - Introduction
Data Protection - email notices and footers
Data Protection - Guidance rules on email marketing
Debt Collection - Introduction
Debt Collection - Letter before action
Debt Collection - Small claims and court claims
Debt Collection - Part 24, application for summary judgment
Debt Collection - Application for enforcement and judgment
Directors – Duties and responsibilities
Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Distance Selling Directive
Enforcement Powers of the Health & Safety Executive
Goods – Law relating to the supply of goods and services
Human Rights Act 1998
Insolvency
Insurance for Small Businesses
Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property Guidance Notes
Intellectual Property - Assignment of Design Right
Intellectual Property - Assignment of Patent Right
Intellectual Property - Assignment of Copyright
Intellectual Property - Licence Agreement - general
Partnership - Questionnaire for information required to prepare a Partnership Agreement
Partnership - Standard Short Form Partnership Agreement
Product Liability
Residential Tenancies
Retention of Title
Security in the Workplace
Terms & Conditions - checklist
Terms & Conditions - Retainer Agreement
Terms & Conditions - Standard Terms of Use - Website
Terms & Conditions - Standard Retention of Title Clause
Unwanted Faxes and Phone Calls
Working from Home – Legal and business issues to consider

Legal updates
Execution of documents by or on behalf of a company - July 2010
June 2010 Budget - June 2010
HK Legal Handbook, full of handy facts and figures - May 2010
Important Pension Changes - April 2010
Employment - February 2010
Protect your Business Intellectual Property - January 2010
The European Union and The Lisbon Treaty - December 2009
Business Action Plan for Survival - November 2009
Final Provisions Of Companies Act 2006 Coming Into Force - October 2009
Employment Law. Effective Date of Termination and Summary Dismissal - August 2009
Swine Flu - Legal Implications - July 2009
Interest on Commercial Debts - June 2009
Employment Law TUPE 2006 Service Provision Changes - April 2009
Employment Act 2008 - March 2009
Health and Safety Law - February 2009
Public Information Concerning Directors - January 2009
Compensation Scheme Limit Increased - December 2008
Tougher penalties for breaking health and safety regulations - Novmeber 2008
New Company Law - October 2008
Directors' duty to promote the success of a company - September 2008
Business Protection - Example Case Study - July 2008
Execution of documents/agency workers - March 2008
Impact of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 - May 2008
Capital Gains Tax - New Regime from 6 April 2008

Tax guides Capital Gains Tax - Taper Relief
Interest, Penalties and Surcharges
Self Assessment for Sole Traders - Returns
Self Assessment for Sole Traders - Enquiries
Statutory Maternity Pay EWC 06/04/2003 onwards
Statutory Paternity Pay (Birth)
Statutory Sick Pay
Substantial Shareholdings
Taxation of Christmas Parties and Gifts to Employees
Taxation of Payments in Lieu of Notice
Taxation of Termination Payments

Employment guides Absence Control
Disability Discrimination
Disciplinary Procedures
Disclosure Code of Practice
Disclosure of Convictions
Employment Act 2002
Employment - Guidance notes for Standard Conditions of Contract - Sale of Services
Employment - Standard statement of terms of employment
Fixed Term Employees
Flexible Working
Holidays and Holiday Pay
Long-Term Sickness Absence
Managing Performance
Maternity - EWC on or after 06-04-03
National Minimum Wage
Part Time Working
Paternity Leave
Public Interest Disclosure
Race Relations Act
Redundancy
Sex Discimination Act 1975
Statutory Trade Union Recognition
Time Off For Dependants
TUPE
Unfair Dismissal
Working Time Regulations - Holidays
Working Time Regulations - Working
Writing Terms &Conditions of Employment


For further information contact the membership team on 020 7251 9229 or email membership@dba.org.uk

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