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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 12 June 2025
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
Legal Forum
Thursday 12th June 2025
Registrations and refreshments 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Trowers & Hamlins, 3 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YZ
Networking drinks from 5pm
Meeting Agenda
3:00pm Welcome & introduction
Shazia Imtiaz, General Counsel, APSCo UK
3:05pm APSCo update
Samantha Hurley, Managing Director, APSCo UK
3:15pm Umbrella – all change?
Crawford Temple, CEO, Professional Passport
With significant changes proposed for April 2026, now is the time for recruitment business legal teams to stay ahead. Join us for a focused discussion on what these reforms could mean, the potential outcomes, and how to navigate the evolving landscape. We’ll explore key considerations, from communicating changes to workers to assessing the impact on your PSL.
4:00pm Panel discussion on how the reforms could affect your business
Shazia will facilitate your questions to the panel on the new umbrella regulations.
Panellists:
- Crawford Temple, CEO, Professional Passport
- Nicola Ihnatowicz, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins
4:55pm Feedback & close
Who should attend?
Business owners, risk and compliance leaders looking to keep abreast of any upcoming regulation changes.
Speakers
Nicola Ihnatowicz
Trowers & Hamlins, Partner, Employment and Pensions
Nicola Ihnatowicz is a partner in the Employment and Pensions Department at Trowers & Hamlins LLP, and specialises in all aspects of human resources and employment law for employers and recruitment businesses.
Nicola specialises in supporting businesses to become "Employers of the Future". Her expertise includes advising on sustainable workforces, achieving inclusivity and business transformation. She also supports employers with difficult employee relations matters, such as changing terms and conditions, managing stress at work, reasonable adjustments, discrimination and harassment investigations, and restructures and redundancies.
Nicola regularly advises and represents clients on Employment Tribunal matters and has recently dealt with complex claims for discrimination and harassment, holiday pay, whistleblowing and workplace stress. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences, including the firm's weekly online Q&A "Trowers Tuesday".
Nicola chairs the firm's Social Impact Committee and has experience as a charity trustee.
Crawford Temple
Professional Passport , CEO & Founder
Crawford Temple is the CEO and founder of Professional Passport which was established in 2007 as the UK’s largest independent assessor of payment intermediary compliance. Its mission is to create a more level playing field across the sector and provide a positive differentiation for those providers operating in line with those standards. Today, Professional Passport is widely recognised as the benchmark of provider compliance with many in the supply chain today insisting on using Professional Passport accredited providers. As an expert and veteran of the industry, Crawford wrote the first book on operational compliance for umbrella providers and in 2021 he wrote The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which highlighted the challenges facing the umbrella market. Crawford is a prolific industry commentator and works closely with many key Government departments on all matters relating to supply chain compliance to support and promote the sector and drive-up standards.
