Adrian Marlowe

Adrian is a specialist lawyer, founder and CEO of the recruitment law consultancy Lawspeed (www.lawspeed.com) as well as chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (www.arc-org.net). Lawspeed has been servicing the recruitment sector since 1997; its clients are hirers, recruitment businesses and contractors interested in contract terms, compliance, IR35 and other regulatory advice.

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Author Content

When your umbrella company stops paying wages: a contractor's guide

Top five steps to take when the fear or reality of non-payment of wages unfolds.

8th August, 2024 | Umbrella Companies

Contractors’ Questions: How to get my Intellectual Property protected when IT contracting via an umbrella company?

A would-be limited company contractor is right that umbrellas are not interested in his IP goals, and nor should they be.

31st July, 2024 | Umbrella Companies

IR35 reform kicker (2): how contracts can thwart outside IR35 status before the work’s even begun

IR35 contractual best-practice looks like this…(but just make sure to show your client/hirer too).

15th April, 2024 | Comment

Understanding IT contract terminology: 25 key terms explained

Twenty-five common legal words a standard tech contract will invariably throw at you.

25th March, 2024 | Guide to Contracts

Contracts no longer require a signature to be accepted and binding, as agencies are very aware

Recruiters are right to warn IT contractors that the days of looking for squiggles to find evidence of contract acceptance are over.

18th March, 2024 | Comment

IR35 indemnity clauses not being enforceable? Wishful thinking

Top 5 reasons why off-payroll liability clauses on contractors are very likely worth the paper they’re printed on.

6th February, 2024 | Comment

Four types of contract breach that contractors need to beware

The most frequently infringed contract terms when signing a services contract too often get skimmed over.

24th January, 2024 | Guide to Contracts

What to do when your contractor umbrella company goes into liquidation

In wake of Optimum Pay Group entering insolvency, Lawspeed outlines the options if your umbrella company is next to fold.

10th August, 2023 | Comment

Upsetting the contractor apple cart is the upshot of the government's unwieldy umbrella company consultation

Disturbing the UK’s contractor market – or worse destroying it, is the dangerous sum of the Treasury’s imbalanced proposals.

26th July, 2023 | Comment

Amazon is their target, but a claim by the retailer’s contract drivers is an attack on James V Greenwich

A judgment from 2008 which acts as a selling point to use recruitment agency contractors is under threat.

18th April, 2023 | Comment

Contractors’ Questions: What legal rights and deductions are due on an inside IR35 contract?

‘Caught-PSCs are only employed for the purposes of tax, which you may be having overly deducted.’

23rd April, 2020 | Private Sector IR35 Reform

Contractors' Questions: Can I get paid during COVID-19 lockdown, now my client still won’t use PSCs?

Legal aid for a limited company contractor whose IR35 case is undermined by his coronavirus hopes.

6th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Employer guide to contractors under IR35 reform from April 2021

Get to grips with your new obligations as temporary workers’ fee-payer or client.

22nd March, 2020 | Private Sector IR35 Reform