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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Challenges Freeholders Face From Rentcharges
Originating in the early part of the last century and only applicable to freehold land, a rentcharge is any regular sum of money due on the land to the rent owner, and should not be confused with a ground rent. Historical rentcharges are common in Manchester, Liverpool and Bristol, and work by imposing a charge on the land requiring the rent...
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Registration of Land as a TVG: the effect on business use
The Court of Appeal has recently considered the effect of registration of a private quayside as a Town or Village Green (TVG) on the landowner’s continued use of the land as a working quayside. In TW Logistics Limited v Essex CC & Another [2018] , the High Court held that part of the landowner’s land had been properly registered as a TVG, but...
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New Home Warranties
Newly-built residential properties often have the benefit of new home warranties. The aim of these warranties is to protect buyers against construction defects. Although, the provision of new home warranties is not a legal requirement they are often provided on new build developments as most mortgage providers will insist on warranty cover being...
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Buying Contaminated Land
You are probably aware there is a potential liability for a buyer of contaminated land for clearing up the contamination. The first port of call for clean-up is the people who actually caused or "knowingly permitted" the contamination. Unfortunately this isn't defined in the legislation and there is no current published guidance but a now...
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The danger of mistakenly granting a perpetually renewable lease
What is a perpetually renewable lease? A perpetually renewable lease is a lease which contains a contractual right to renew on the same terms, including the right to renew, therefore the tenant will have an infinite right to renew the lease. Consequences of granting a perpetually renewable lease By operation of the Law of Property Act 1922 a...
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Drug and Alcohol Misuse In The Family
Drug and alcohol misuse is a complex issue. When someone is misusing or suffering from addiction, not only does it have a vast negative impact on their own life, it affects everyone around them. Those who misuse or are addicted may suffer from depression or struggle to control their emotions, find it difficult to hold down a job or perform...
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Trade Fairs – on or off premises?
It is normally easy to identify when a contract is concluded at a distance (typically online and by phone) but the circumstances in which a contract is made on or off-premises are not always clear. It is important to make this distinction because whether a sale to a consumer is made on or off-premises will dictate, amongst other things, whether...
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Variation of spousal maintenance
The Supreme Court has considered an application to vary a periodical payments order (otherwise known as spousal maintenance) in the recent case of Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38. The parties had been married for 13 years and had one child. They had enjoyed a good standard of living during the marriage, largely due to the husband’s financial...
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Departure from equal sharing of assets on divorce in cases with a high net worth
It is clear from case law that the court will apply the ‘sharing principle’ as a starting point where there is sufficient capital to meet parties’ needs, to divide all marital assets equally, unless there is good reason to depart from equality. Marital assets include all property built up during the relationship, irrespective of the proportions...
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Listed Buildings - Frequently Asked Questions
Some properties are categorised as Listed Buildings. Often they are buildings of historic importance with beautiful original features, and can therefore be very attractive to those looking to buy a new home. However, there are strict regulations about what you can do to a listed building and the consequences of failing to comply can be very...
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Questions to ask a divorce solicitor on first meeting
Seeing a divorce lawyer for the first time can feel like a daunting and overwhelming experience, especially when you are likely to be feeling stressed and emotional, and it can be difficult to know what you should say. Everybody’s case is different, but below are some of the questions that you may want to ask your divorce lawyer at your first...
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Tenant liable to insurance claim for damage to the remainder of the building
The High Court has recently ruled that where a landlord is not obliged to insure the whole building on behalf of a tenant who has taken a lease of part of that building, the landlord’s insurers can make a claim against the tenant for loss and damage to the parts of the building the tenant does not occupy. This is being referred to by lawyers as...
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