14th April, 2000 - PCG Services and Judicial Review

Firstly, newsletter contains lots of important information regarding:

1. Update on Legal Challenge
2. Portal news
3. The Full manual
4. Latest PCG draft sample contracts

Please ensure you take time to read the whole Newsletter so you are up to date with PCG actions and services! We are dealing with lots of enquiries regarding information that is available on the site. This prevents us from making planned improvements. We have a basic troubleshooting guide : Here

We now have 230 Associate members and total membership is rapidly approaching the 10,000 mark.

Judicial Review Update
As you all know we are no longer pledging support for the legal challenge, but we are collecting cheques to fund it. The response so far has been fantastic and the PCG office has been flooded with cheques but we estimate that there are still over 1,000 people who pledged who still need to send cheques, and up to 4,000 members who need to get involved. Please send in your cheques as soon as possible so we can process en masse.

Currently we are working hard to structure the challenge and we are not yet publishing details of our activities. Further information will be made available to Associates in the near future.

Further information about the legal challenge can be found in the forum Notice board:

Here

Portal News
This is moving ahead swiftly. Contractor members are currently posting details. Look out for the public launch of the Portal in coming months. Further details to follow.

The Full Manual
PCG is pleased to announce the arrival of the IR35 Full Manual � a comprehensive guide to the regulations and what you need to do. This is a full version of the manual given out at our seminars. Put together by our team of professional advisors, this document is available for download

Here

and we will be updating relevant sections when appropriate. Members will be notified of amendments so that the document can be maintained as a live reference source.

Draft Sample Contracts
The latest PCG draft sample contracts have also been posted to the Filestore.

Here

Dated 15th March, the contracts are the most comprehensive yet and incorporate all the modifications and feedback so far.

Remember to be careful when using the contracts � they will not automatically see you over the barrier and do need to be altered to reflect genuinely your individual circumstances.

Mark Roderick
14th April, 2000