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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The Bank of Mum and Dad – Ensuring Your Interests Are Protected
Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen a large increase in the number of private loans between family members. The “Bank of Mum and Dad” is very much alive and thriving! For many, especially millennials (and even more so, those living in London), getting onto the property ladder is next to impossible and for some, the Bank of Mum and Dad is a very...
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Religious Discrimination: The Right to Wear Religious Jewellery At Work
In the long running case; Eweida and Ors v UK, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held that the employee (Mrs Eweida) did suffer discrimination at work when her employer, British Airways, asked her to cover up her crucifix. Mrs Eweida, a member of check-in staff for British Airways, brought a claim at the Employment Tribunal for religious...
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Lasting Powers of Attorney for Health and Welfare: Mind the Gap
Solicitors for the Elderly (“SFE”), along with a number of charities, have expressed concern over the number of people that have not made a Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) for Health and Welfare. The number of people being diagnosed with dementia in the UK has risen by 50% from 2005 to 2017, and this is set to rise; however, this is not matched...
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JCT 2016 – two years after publication, it’s time to get involved
During the winter of 2016, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) launched its new suite of building contracts with the publication of its revised Minor Works family. This included building contracts with and without contractor design responsibility and a form of sub-contract (with provision for sub-contractor design). This constituted the first...
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Employer discriminates despite no knowledge of disability connection
Yes, ruled the Court of Appeal in City of York Council v Grosset. It held that it was disability discrimination to dismiss a teacher for showing an 18-rated film to a class of vulnerable 15 to 16-year-old students. This was because the teacher, who had cystic fibrosis, was suffering from stress and it was found that his behaviour was a...
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Structuring Residential Leasehold Development Schemes - Part 3
Our first two blogs in this series looked at the options for a developer, in structuring a residential leasehold development scheme, to either retain both the reversion and the management of the building, or to simply retain the reversion and contract out the management and provision of services to a management company. The blogs can be accessed...
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Zurich reports 1.7 million drawdown retirees at risk without Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)
The government scrapped the rules compelling retirees to buy an annuity, more than 345,000 are using income drawdown to fund their retirement. Yet, four in five retirees have not made a LPA to authorise a trusted person to make decisions on their behalf if they lose mental capacity and cannot make decisions themselves. A common misconception is...
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Can high heels, make-up and manicured nails be required at work?
There has been a lot of media attention over the last couple of years on the issue of dress codes at work, ranging from female receptionists being required to wear high heels, to a claim about a Muslim head scarf ban making it all the way to the European Court of Justice in Achbita v G4S Secure Solutions. The risk of provoking such problems begs...
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Structuring Residential Leasehold Development Schemes - Part 2
Our first blog in this series of blogs on ways to structure a residential leasehold development scheme focused on a developer retaining both the reversion and the management of the building. In this second blog, the focus will be on the developer who wishes to retain the reversion but wants to contract out the management and provision of services...
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New laws on itemised payslips
The Order amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 to provide all workers with a right to an itemised payslip. This will alter the current position whereby only those classified as ‘employees’ are entitled to receive a payslip. Employers will also...
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Structuring Residential Leasehold Development Schemes - Part 1
There are a number of ways in which a developer can structure a leasehold development scheme. This is relevant where a freehold building is built or converted and comprises a number of residential units that will be leased on long leases. A leasehold scheme is essential where there are common parts of the property which will need to be...
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Key practical considerations when buying a commercial property with your SIPP or SSAS
Create your SIPP or SSAS as soon as possible, you should allow 10 to 12 weeks for the SIPP or SSAS to be created first. The legalities for the property purchase process will then start after the creation of the SIPP or SSAS. The SIPP or SSAS provider will have set procedural requirements that must be complied with and this could have an impact...
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