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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When can we have our money?
A question which often arises when dealing with taxable estates is the question of when the executors can be sure that HMRC won’t ask for more money. Sensibly, they want to know for definite before paying out all the money. Until now the question has been buried in HMRC procedural rules, but essentially the answer has been 6 months after the...
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Farmer Didn’t Want a Wife: Unmarried partner left homeless
Miss Thompson had lived with Wynford Hodge for 42 years. The couple had never married but had cohabited as a couple for this period. In previous Wills, Mr Hodge had made provision for Miss Thompson, but in his most recent Will, he left her out completely. Mr Hodge left a letter of wishes with his Will explaining that one of the reasons that he...
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Purchase of Commercial Property by a SIPP or a SSAS
The legal process for the purchase of a commercial property by a SIPP or a SSAS does not differ from the process involved when acting for a company or an individual. There are, however, a couple of specific points which we need to consider to allow the transaction to run smoothly. Connected party transactions Conflicts of interest can...
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How to comply with the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: funding or exemption?
The MEES are a set of legal requirements that landlords must comply with to improve the energy efficiency of privately rented properties across the UK. They apply to certain private rented properties that are legally required to have an Energy Performance Certificate, both domestic and non-domestic, with leases of longer than 6 months and shorter...
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Interfering with Rights of Way
The subject of rights of way is highly complex and consequently there is a great deal of case law on the subject. Clients may be interested to note that the High Court has recently decided a curious case which has helped to further clarify exactly what is classified as substantial (and therefore actionable) interference by a land owner with an...
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