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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Platonic Co-Parenting - Have you considered the legal implications?
Platonic Co-Parenting is when two individuals decide to raise a child without being romantically involved. One of their reasons for platonic pregnancy is that many individuals don’t have a partner and/or don’t feel financially secure enough to have a baby on their own. Websites such as Co-Parents.co.uk, Co-ParentMatch.com and PollenTree.com...
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Shared Parental Leave – Are men entitled to the same pay as women on maternity leave?
If you’re having a baby or adopting a child, you and your partner may be able to get Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay. You can share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay between you in the first year after your child is born or placed with your family. You can also choose to be off work together or to stagger...
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Can Directors be liable for breach of an employee’s contract of employment?
Being a director of a company brings with it a high degree of responsibility and the risk of personal liability. The general principle is that a director will not be personally liable for inducing a breach of contract by their company, so long as they acted in good faith, in the best interests of the company and within the scope of their...
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Executing documents – the importance of getting it right
Signing a deed or a contract should be the easiest part of any transaction or project. Once complex negotiations have been concluded and the commercial terms have been agreed, all that is left to do is for the parties to sign on the dotted line. This sounds simple but we routinely find that documents have been incorrectly executed on construction...
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The House Buying Process: Your Questions Answered
Everyone knows purchasing a property can be a bewildering and stressful process. Our friendly and experienced residential property team will guide you through every step of the way, from your initial call to us right through to collecting the keys for your new property and beyond. Here we answer some of the most common questions our clients ask...
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Agricultural Property Relief Guide
It is not often that the words “simple” and “straightforward” are used in relation to Inheritance Tax (IHT). However, the first of a two-part review undertaken by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) found that this is how those in rural business viewed reliefs available to them . Given that there is 100% tax relief on offer to eligible...
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Guide to Construction Adjudication
This is a back to basics guide to construction adjudication. It is intended to help those new to adjudication to understand the basic process and it details its advantages and disadvantages. Adjudication is a form of dispute resolution which is commonly used for resolving construction disputes which are determined by an independent adjudicator...
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Divorce Consent Orders - What You Need To Know
A Consent Order is the single most important document that any divorcing couple are likely to sign. The agreement will cover what is to happen with their financial assets. A Consent Order is a legally binding document between two people who have agreed to divorce and separate their financial assets. A Consent Order puts in writing everything that...
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Why tenants should instruct a solicitor when entering into a lease
When a lease is being granted, there is a lot more to think about than just the lease document itself. Whether you are the landlord or the tenant, it is always advisable to instruct solicitors to act for you so that you are fully aware of the risks and your obligations. If you are the tenant, it is important for a solicitor to check the...
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A Guide to JCT Building Contracts
The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) launched its new suite of building contracts in 2016 with updates to the entire JCT family completed in 2017. This guide from our Construction Solicitors sets out some basic information about JCT contracts generally, as well as some more detailed information about the 2016 JCT forms.
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Stamp Duty Land Tax on Commercial Property
SDLT (also known as Stamp Duty Land Tax, and sometimes just Stamp Duty) is a tax payable on both commercial and residential property transactions in England and Northern Ireland – so whether you take a lease of an industrial unit for business purposes or downsize your family home you will pay the same type of tax, albeit at different rates. The...
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A Guide to Adverse Possession
Land: use it or lose it. That’s the basic premise behind the often controversial legal principle of adverse possession. Adverse possession is colloquially known as “squatters rights” and is based on an ancient philosophy requiring owners of land to...
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