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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What Could Restrict You From Altering Your Future Home?
Unfortunately, many restrictions could limit or even prohibit, alterations to your future home. Before you rush to sign on the dotted line, you should conduct your own due diligence checks with your local authority and ensure that your dream renovations can become a reality. As part of the legal process, your Residential Property solicitor will...
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Navigating Intellectual Property Litigation: A Guide for UK Manufacturers
Safeguarding intellectual property assets ( IP ) is crucial for manufacturers. This short blog from our Manufacturing Solicitors focuses on different categories of IP, including trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets protection, how and when these may apply, and some practical steps for protecting and enforcing IP .
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Top Tips When Renewing Your Commercial Lease
When a commercial lease term is close to expiring, the parties can enter into negotiations over the terms of a new lease agreement, which is known as a lease renewal. When renewing a lease, you must first check if the lease is inside or outside of the protections of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“LTA 1954”). If the lease is protected by the...
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Share Buybacks – Common Pitfalls
A share buyback is the process a company follows to purchase its own shares back from one or more of the company’s current shareholders. A share buyback process can be utilised by a corporation for a number of purposes, including to: Exit a shareholder from the company - This is often considered an efficient way of exiting a shareholder, given...
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What Is The Buildings Societies Act (Amendment) Bill 2023-24?
There is much talk in the press of the cost of living and interest rates, particularly the rising mortgage rates and the rate at which the Bank of England’s belated rate rises are to feed through into the real economy and impact many people’s standard of living. Our Financial Services Solicitors investigate how a current Private Member’s bill...
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Pension vs. The Family Home – Is It Ever a Fair Deal?
When parties go through separation, the number one priority is often housing. The stress of ensuring immediate housing needs are met can often result in parties overlooking the importance of pension assets. When considering finances on separation, the overriding objective is fairness. This applies to pensions as well as all other capital assets...
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New Changes to the Probate Application Process – What Does This Mean for Personal Representatives?
HMRC have announced changes to the probate application process, which has taken effect as of 17th January 2024. Our Wills, Trusts, and Probate team explore what the issues were with the previous probate application process and what the new process entails. What was the previous probate application process? Prior to this date, the process for...
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Service Charge Disputes: Your Questions Answered
A service charge is a sum that is paid in relation to maintenance, services and repairs. They are typically found in a lease, where it is agreed that a tenant will pay a landlord (or management company) a service charge to cover the service costs that are supplied. There will be a provision in the lease defining what services will be provided...
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Navigating Nitrate Neutrality: A Crucial Factor in Planning and Development
Nitrates are produced by various methods, including agricultural discharges, wastewater treatment discharges, and development and construction on land, which disturbs the soil. When nitrates are released and discharged into neighbouring water, a process called eutrophication occurs, which causes a mat of algae to form in the water, which...
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Should I Sublet my Commercial Property Instead of Assigning the Lease?
A sublease is when a tenant of an existing lease (the “superior lease”) grants another lease below their own. The term of the sublease cannot be longer than the term of the superior lease. A sublease is the same as an underlease. To sublet, you must check whether your lease allows them to grant subleases. Most commercial leases permit the tenant...
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The Perfect Storm - Ongoing Struggles for Hospitality and Leisure Businesses
New data from commercial real estate analysts Altus Group has revealed that pubs across England and Wales are closing at a rate of two per day. With a reported 383 pubs having been either demolished or redeveloped during the first half of 2023, pub closure figures are nearly as high as they were in all of 2022. In fact, many pub owners now...
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To Mediate or Litigate? - Choosing the Right Route for Will Disputes
Losing a loved one and dealing with grief is never easy. It can be made considerably worse if a family dispute arises as to how a deceased’s estate should be distributed. Disputes can result in expensive and time-consuming court proceedings, which can put a long-lasting strain on family relationships. If a Will dispute arises, it is important to...
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