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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 13 May 2026
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
Legal & Compliance Forum
Wednesday 13th May
Registrations and refreshments: 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Squire Patton Boggs, 60 London Wall, London, EC2M 5TQ
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Key Takeaways
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Clearer understanding of what the legislative changes mean for recruiters
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Clearer understanding of what the next steps are for your business in light of the various reforms
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Understanding the impact of hiring fraud for recruiters and how best to tackle it in your supply chain
Meeting Agenda
Welcome, introduction & APSCo Update
Shazia Imtiaz, General Counsel, APSCo UK
Update on key legislative changes followed by Q&A
Annabel Mace, Partner & David Whincup, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
As the phased implementation of major employment law reforms and new umbrella company regulations takes effect from April 2026, the recruitment sector faces its most significant overhaul in a generation. With increased liability, day-one rights, and tighter supply chain regulations, we examine how firms can navigate these changes.
Discussion on Hiring Fraud followed by Q&A
Keith Rosser, Director, Reed Screening
Over the past few years, recruitment fraud has increased significantly, marked by a surge in applicants falsifying qualifications and concealing employment history. The growth of sophisticated ‘Reference Houses’ providing fake documents makes detection difficult, while the cost-of-living crisis has heightened the risk of employees being targeted by organized crime to steal company data. Given the severe consequences including financial loss and reputational damages we discuss how recruitment companies can strengthen the pre-employment screening processes to mitigate these rising insider threats.
Speakers
Keith Rosser
Reed, Director of Reed Screening, Director Group Risk
Founded and built Reed Screening, one of the UK's largest employee screening businesses. Built the Better Hiring Institute to be the largest hiring trade organisation with 15,000 employer members. Over 20 years as Non-Executive Board Member with Disclosure Scotland, the GLAA an arms-length body of UK Home Office, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), and Community Justice Scotland. Keith received a Home Office Commendation Award in 2016 for services to recruitment and was recognised as a Community Leader at Buckingham Palace in 2018. Creator of the UK’s first APPG on Modernising Employment and was appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Panel on the Future of Work and also advises on the UK's Labour Market Strategy.
Keith is Chair of various trade bodies including the Association of RecTech Providers. Keith is Chair of JobsAware, a Met Police founded charity with cross government support tackling labour market issues. In 2023 Keith was made an Honorary Fellow of Lancaster University for his services to the UK labour market. Recently Keith has won multiple industry awards for impact including Recruiter Magazine, In House Recruitment, and the British HR Awards.
Annabel Mace
Squire Patton Boggs, Partner
Annabel Mace is a partner in our Labour & Employment practice group and leads our UK Business Immigration team. She has more than 20 years’ experience advising businesses across a range of sectors on all aspects of business immigration and employment law.
She has in-depth expertise in the Home Office’s Points Based System, particularly in relation to compliance issues arising out of maintaining sponsor licences.
She also regularly advises clients on more complex matters (particularly where there is an immigration/employment overlap).
Annabel also speaks regularly at seminars and workshops as part of the Labour & Employment Practice’s national seminar programme, as well as at bespoke client training sessions. She is also an updating author for immigration matters on the employment law website XpertHR.
David Whincup
Squire Patton Boggs, Partner
David's expertise gained from 40 years as a specialist employment law practitioner cover a wide variety of employment-related issues, including individual and team recruitment issues, investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, individual and collective redundancies, the defence of employee discrimination and dismissal claims and other litigation, whistleblowing, employee health, data protection and matters surrounding confidentiality and intellectual property in the workplace.
His clients span a wide range, from senior individuals to household-name corporates, and across all sectors, from aviation and distribution to insurance and sports. However, his particular expertise lies in advising clients in the financial services sector. He is responsible for the firm’s relationships with a substantial number of financial services institutions.
David is the firm’s internal HR partner and a member of its Diversity Committee. He carries out know-how, marketing and communications roles both within the international Labor & Employment team and the wider firm.
David is a well-known speaker on employment matters, both in-house to clients and for commercial training providers, and is a regular contributor to a number of employment publications. He is editor and principal UK writer for the firm’s Employment Law Worldview blog.