Employment Rights Act 2025: Key Changes and What Employers Need to Know as Reforms Take Effect
The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025. It amends the law relating to employment rights to enhance employee protections, bringing major changes throughout 2026 and 2027. With key provisions now in force and further reforms due to take effect throughout 2026 and 2027, our Employment Lawyers outline the...
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Defendant’s Guide to Patent Infringement
What are patents? Patents provide inventors with a legally protectable monopoly over their inventions and protect new and innovative technical features of products and processes. They normally last for a limited period of 20 years depending on the country. To qualify for patent protection, an invention must be: New; Involve an innovative step; Be...
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Claimant’s Guide to Patent Infringement
What are patents? Patents provide inventors with a legally protectable monopoly over their inventions and protect new and innovative technical features of products and processes. They normally last for a limited period of 20 years depending on the country. To qualify for patent protection, an invention must be: New; Involve an innovative step; Be...
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Urban Exploration Injunctions
Over the past few years, influenced by Instagram and Youtube, the craze of Urban Exploration has become more and more common. Urban Exploration generally involves trespassing onto unmanned objects such as bridges, buildings and construction sites often without the aid of rope or climbing equipment, which can be a problem to developers and owners...
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Child Arrangements During The Christmas Period
Whilst it may be the most wonderful time of the year for many, for separated couples Christmas provides the opportunity for heated disputes over which parent the child should spend Christmas Day with causing inevitable distress for both the child and extended family members. Resolution, an organisation of 6,500 legal professionals who are...
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Defendant’s Guide to Copyright Infringement
What is copyright? Copyright protects original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, including films, music and computer programs. It protects against the copying of another’s work and the physical expression or representation of an idea but it does not protect against independent development of the same idea. Copyright ownership...
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Practical Guide To Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) can be used as an alternative to litigation in any dispute between 2 or more parties which relates to civil legal rights and/or duties. Court proceedings do not need to have been issued in order for parties to engage in ADR. It is often popular in disputes between businesses because the negotiations and...
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The Differences Between The Various Intellectual Property Rights
In this blog, the latest in our series of intellectual property blogs, we explore the differences between various intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights is a phrase used to cover a variety of legal rights which can either arise automatically or be registered in respect of creative works, whether that is a brand’s identity...
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Navigating the Minefield of Direct Marketing
It is crucial for businesses to explore all possible avenues they have at their disposal to market their products or services. Direct marketing offers significant opportunities for businesses to reach new customers and re-engage with existing ones. It can, however, be difficult to navigate the strict rules around direct marketing. Businesses can...
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Guide to Website Terms & Conditions - Do You Need Them?
Introduction: What are terms and conditions? Terms and conditions set out the legal basis on which people are permitted to access and use your website. What they are used for? A basic set of terms and conditions will deal with what visitors to your website can: do when accessing your website; do with the intellectual property on your website; and...
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Claimant’s Guide to Trademark Infringement
What are trademarks? A trademark is a symbol, word or words used by a trader to distinguish its products or services from those of others. A trademark protects branding for businesses including product names, logos, acronyms, slogans, trading styles and even colours. Trademarks are a very valuable form of IP because they become associated with...
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Can I Claim Overpaid Inheritance Tax After The House Price Fell?
When someone dies, Inheritance Tax is paid on the probate value of an estate, i.e. the open market value at the date of death. If property is subsequently sold at a lower price, relief from Inheritance Tax may be available. Falling house prices According to the Land Registry, while the average price of a property in the UK went up by 0.9...
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Claimant’s Guide to Copyright Infringement
Copyright protects original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, including films, music and computer programs. It protects against the copying of another’s work and the physical expression or representation of an idea but it does not protect against independent development of the same idea. Copyright ownership allows the owner to...
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