James Palmer

Nov 8, 2024 | edp24.co.uk | James Palmer

5 1/1 Last week's budget announcements - including scrapping inheritance tax relief for farms worth more than £1m - will have "dire ramifications" for small farming communities, writes Eastern Powerhouse chairman James Palmer. The recent budget, and its implications for the agricultural industry, has been met with substantial criticism from farmers and rural communities alike.

Jul 26, 2024 | lexology.com | Sarah Hawes |James Palmer |Gareth Sykes |Stephen Wilkinson

In the King’s Speech, which sets out the government’s legislative agenda for the upcoming parliamentary session, the government announced that it intends to put forward a draft Audit and Governance Reform Bill. In May 2022, the Conservative government published the response to its March 2021 consultation paper Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance (read more on our blog here).

Oct 23, 2023 | mondaq.com | Heidi Gallagher |Sarah Hawes |James Palmer

The Department of Business and Trade (DBT) has announced that it has withdrawn the draft Companies (Strategic Report and Directors' Report) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, which were laid in Parliament in July this year.

Oct 11, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Richard Romano |James Palmer

It is generally accepted that the nation's community colleges are underfunded, especially given the job that society expects of them. Accordingly, practitioners and scholars have long argued for new revenue sources and funding models. This essay briefly explains one such alternative model, namely funding adequacy. This concept has a long history at the K-12 level and holds potential for application in community colleges.

Jun 4, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | James Palmer

OPINIONThis year’s UN-sponsored World Environment Day theme is ending plastic pollution. Aotearoa New Zealand is part of the international community that endorsed a historic decision to negotiate an international legally binding agreement by the close of 2024 to end plastic pollution. Aotearoa New Zealand has an unhealthy relationship with plastic. It has become an almost inevitable part of our lives. On average, each New Zealander sends nearly 60kg of plastic to landfill every year.