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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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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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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