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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Data Protection Law and Websites
Two main bodies of law primarily govern the data protection regime within the UK: the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The UK GDPR sets out prescriptive information and transparency requirements that businesses must satisfy when processing...
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Options For Downsizing Your Office Premises
During the Covid crisis, many businesses started looking at their commercial property requirements and how these have changed. The impact of flexible working and many meetings now taking place virtually rather than face to face means that many...
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Office Workspaces Post-Pandemic
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, many peoples working lives changed overnight. Working from home was introduced permanently, a notable change to the norm; for most companies working from home before the pandemic was relatively rare...
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“Fire and Rehire” Practices by Employers
The government has launched a consultation that could introduce restrictions on the ability of employers to use “fire and rehire” tactics to force through contractual changes to their staffs employment . A draft of the new Statutory Code of...
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Five Factors to Consider Before You Cut a Family Member Out of Your Will
In England and Wales, you have testamentary freedom, meaning you do not have to leave your estate to your spouse or your children in your Will . You can leave your estate to whoever you would like. However, your family members can make a claim...
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The Building Safety Pledge
At the end of January, the Government set a six-week deadline for construction developers to sign the new Building Safety Pledge contract. It is a warning that companies who fail to sign and comply with the contract will face significant...
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Priscilla Presley Contests the Validity of Lisa Marie's Will
Lisa Marie, the only daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, sadly passed away on 12 January 2023. Since her daughters death, Priscilla Presley has filed a lawsuit disputing the validity of Lisa Maries Will. The contentious probate...
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VAT and Property – Do You Know If You Have Opted to Tax?
HMRC have confirmed that as of 1 February 2023, they will no longer be issuing acknowledgement letters confirming that an option to tax notification has been submitted. Under the new approach, an automated email response will be sent when an option...
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Service Charge in Commercial Leases: The Pay Now, Argue Later Approach
The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in Sara and Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd (a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands) v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd [2023] UKSC 2. In this property litigation case, the landlord brought a claim...
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Can I Apply for Spousal Maintenance?
Spousal maintenance can also be referred to as a periodical payment order. One party must pay the other spouse/civil partner a sum of money on a weekly or monthly basis. Whilst there is an expectation in the eyes of the court that both parties...
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Louboutin v Amazon - Advertising Counterfeit Goods
A recent ruling from the high-profile case of Christian Louboutin v Amazon has highlighted the potential pitfalls of allowing third-party sellers to advertise and sell counterfeit products via online commercial marketplaces. This judgment is of...
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Nuptial Agreements – To What Extent Can They Be Challenged?
Whilst prenuptial agreements are not formally binding in England and Wales, the Family Law courts have regarded them as persuasive and even decisive. The court in the landmark case of Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 set...
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