SECTOR FOCUS: LEGAL & FINANCE


Tech firms must face new levy


Paul Sankey joins as Partner


Foot Anstey has appointed Paul Sankey as Partner in the firm's clinical negligence group, further expanding its offering across the areas of clinical negligence, mental capacity and personal injury. Paul joins from a leading London-based law firm, Slater and Gordon,


and led one of the largest clinical negligence teams in the city. Paul is a specialist clinical negligence solicitor with a focus


on adults who suffer serious brain injury as a result of negligent treatment, medical errors leading to amputations and the delayed diagnosis of cancer. He has recently advised on multiple, successful, high- profile claims including awards of £3m for a man who became hemiplegic and severely cognitively damaged after a stroke, over £1m for a young woman who developed cognitive damage after cerebral abscesses and over £1m for a disabled man who lost his mobility and became dependent on a high level of care following a medication error. Paul is the second hire to Foot Anstey's


clinical negligence group (and the second addition to the Bristol office) in less than six months, after 'rising star' Holly Mieville- Hawkins joined the mental capacity team as Senior Associate.


Paul Sankey, Partner at Foot Anstey


The region's technology companies will be hit with a new Migrant Skills Levy from April 2017 of up to £1,000 per worker per year, warns Top 40 accountants, Bishop Fleming. Technology firms recruiting


skilled migrant labour from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) through the Tier 2 visa route will, from next year, have to pay the new levy. This comes on top of the imposition of a new Apprenticeship Levy which also starts next year. The Migrant Skills Levy,


introduced in the Immigration Act 2016, will be imposed on businesses that employ non- European workers who are on salaries of at least £20,800. The Government says the levy is aimed at redressing an under-investment in skills by UK employers that has resulted in a skills gap, and is also meant to reduce net migration by encouraging employers to invest in the resident workforce, rather than hiring from abroad. Bishop Fleming recommends


that companies affected by the forthcoming change review their recruitment needs and budget where necessary ahead of the April deadline.


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