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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Choosing Commercial Premises: A Guide for UK Manufacturers
Selecting suitable commercial premises can be a crucial factor in meeting your manufacturing goals and contributing to the success of your business. Therefore, it is important that you make the correct decision and ensure that you have given proper thought to relevant legal considerations before acquiring the premises.
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Succession Planning - What's Next?
In this recording, our expert Wealth team will guide you the next steps of succession planning with guest speaker Laura Hutchinson, Managing Partner and Tax Expert at Forbes Dawson. We will cover; Family Investment Companies Lifetime Gifts Trusts Estate planning via your Will And more…
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Why Estate Planning Is Just as Important as Wedding Planning
Contemplating marriage can be a joyous time. Amidst the excitement of scouting out venues and cake tasting, it can be all too easy for the happy couple to neglect less-romantic considerations such as Wills and estate planning. Marriage holds weighty legal implications in this area, which should not be overlooked. This is also true of divorce...
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Don’t Worry, Be App-Y – The Government Plans for Regulation of Digital Mental Health Technologies
The risks to mental health posed by our use of smartphones, social media, and similar tech-related aspects of modern life are well-reported. At the same time, many organisations are already providing or developing tools which use technology to support and promote mental health and wellbeing, ranging from meditation apps to AI-powered online...
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How Law Firms Should Observe Mental Health Week and Self-Care for Legal Professionals
In the fast-paced world of the legal profession, mental health has often been overshadowed by demanding billable targets and the relentless stress of city firms, leading many lawyers to experience forms of anxiety and burnout. Shockingly, a recent survey revealed that lawyers rank as the second most stressed profession in the country, with a...
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Family Business Buy-Outs in the Agricultural and Rural Business Sector
A solution to succession planning in a family-owned business in the agricultural and rural business sector could be a sale of the business by the senior generation to the next generation of family members . This is commonly referred to as a family business buy-out or FBO. This structure is similar to a management buy-out except that instead of...
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Myerson Solicitors Advise Affetto Foods as Restaurant Domus Italia Expands to Altrincham
Altrincham law firm, Myerson Solicitors, have advised Affetto Foods on the lease assignment of 84-86 Stamford New Road, the property formerly occupied by tapas restaurant Evuna. The property will now be home to the south Manchester based Italian restaurant and deli, Domus Italia. With three successful branches in Wilmslow, Didsbury and Chorlton...
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Should I Buy the Freehold to My House?
The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (the 1967 act) gives leasehold tenants of houses the right to buy the freehold. The right to buy the freehold (and any intermediate leasehold interest, for example, the head lease) without the landlord's agreement is called 'enfranchisement'. Some landlords will sell the freehold without you needing to make a formal...
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Understanding Landlord's Consent to Assign a Lease: A Guide for Tenants
Assignment of a commercial lease is an attractive option for tenants of commercial properties who wish to divest themselves of their lease. Commercial property tenants often find themselves trapped in a lease with time left to run, where the landlord does not consent to surrender, and the lease itself does not facilitate a break option. Various...
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Franchise Agreements in Retail
Franchise agreements are used extensively within the retail sector . It is important to understand how these agreements work and what they will mean for the parties entering into them . A franchise agreement is a legally binding contract that establishes a relationship between a franchisor (the business owner) and a franchisee that outlines...
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Cut Out Of A Will In Favour Of The Family Dog?
It is well known that Britain is a nation of animal lovers, with 53% of UK adults owning a pet in 2023. As pets become cherished family members, increasing numbers of testators are considering their welfare when preparing Wills. Our contentious probate team often hear about provisions being made for the benefit of a pet. For example, Paul O’Grady...
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A Guide to Prenuptial Agreements
A prenup is a legal agreement made between two individuals before they marry or enter into a civil partnership. The agreement itself can set out a variety of provisions as to how the couple intend to divide their assets in the event of any future divorce or family dissolution. The agreement can also define which assets are classed as...
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