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USETECH HIGH COURT APPEAL TODAY

The High Court appeal for Bill Hood's company, Usetech Ltd, will take place today, Monday 26 July. The legal team representing Usetech includes a leading employment barrister and Dave Smith of Accountax Consulting.

PCG chairman, Simon Juden, and director Richard Robson will attend as observers. Bill Hood, a PCG member who lives in Gateshead, has been excused from attending because of his poor health. It is expected that the case will be concluded within the day and the result will not be known for several weeks.

INFORMATION FOR YOUR ACCOUNTANT

PCG's recent membership survey showed that over 85% of respondents sought business advice from their accountants. PCG already communicates with over 200 firms of accountants who look after freelance contractor clients, many of whom say that they value information from PCG about IR35, Section 660A and other taxation matters.

If your accountant is not a PCG member or Affiliate member, but you think they would like to receive information from PCG about the Arctic case and other tax and case law matters that are relevant to freelance contractors and small business owners, please ask them to register their details online, at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=6388569680 indicating which publications they would like to receive.

SEMINARS IN EGHAM AND STEVENAGE

Following the success of previous such events, PCG is working with several Affiliate members and other partners to continue its planned programme of co-hosted seminars for freelancers around the regions. The next two events will be at:

* Egham, Wednesday 28 July 2004 18:30 - register online
* Stevenage, Tuesday 3 August 2004 18:30 - register online

CFI MEETING IN MANCHESTER

The next meeting of the Collaborative Freelancing Initiative (CFI) will take place in Manchester on Saturday 18 September 2004. Details are available online.

COMMERCIAL FORUM PROJECT POSTINGS

For information about the latest job, project, contract and work opportunities, see PCG's Commercial forum , and Members' Commercial forum. The Commercial forum may be accessed by Affiliate members, and PCG welcomes postings by agencies.

This week's opportunities from the Commercial forums include:

IT support role (permanent) - PCG, Uxbridge

Excel/VBA/.NET contract - City of London

Oracle PL/SQL developer with data warehousing and Cognos - Bracknell

REAL LIFE MEETINGS

Farnborough - Monday 26 July 2004 19:00

Central London - Monday 26 July 2004

North West - Thursday 29 July 2004 19:30

Central London - Wednesday 4 August 2004 18:00

Thames Valley - Wednesday 8 September 2004 20:00

Disclaimer - caveat emptor - PCG carries very limited advertising only from known and reputable Affiliates and complementary organisations. Even so, publication of any advertisement carries no implicit or explicit endorsement by PCG.

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