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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Revocation of a Will
When a person has made a valid Will and wishes to cancel it, the law stated in section 20 of The Wills Act 1837; a Will can only be invalidated in three ways: marriage or civil partnership, making a new Will or Codicil, or by destruction (tear, burn, cancel, deface, obliterate or destroy). The term used is ‘ Revocation ’. Revocation of a Will...
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Common Excuses for Late Payment of Debts and How to Deal With Them
Dealing with excuses for late payments Most, if not all, businesses, regardless of the sector in which they operate, are likely to need to pursue an unpaid debt at some time. For most businesses, the collection of outstanding debts must be managed efficiently to assist cash flow. In this blog, we reveal the most common excuses for late-payments...
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Crane Oversail Licences
Freehold ownership of land usually includes the air space above that land. When a contractor needs to bring a tower crane onto a site in order to carry out works, it needs to consider whether the jib (the horizontal arm) of its crane will need to swing over or 'oversail' any adjacent land that does not belong to the developer. If so, the...
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How Can I Sign A Contract Transfer Deed If I Am Abroad?
There has been a substantial shift in the way that business is carried out in a virtual world following the peak of the pandemic last year. When the pandemic hit and once the property market opened up again, questions were raised as to how deeds could be witnessed and paperwork completed when strict lockdown rules remained in place. Mercury...
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National Minimum Wage: Trial Periods and Pre-employment Training
In August 2021, the Government reintroduced its ‘name and shame’ list of employers that failed to pay their employees the national minimum wage. The August list identified 191 employers that had collectively underpaid over 34,000 workers between 2011 and 2018. National Minimum Wage Breaches Whilst the most common NMW breaches relate to deductions...
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Redundancy Part 3: The Consultation Process
In parts one ( Redundancy Part 1: A Guide for Employers ) and two ( Redundancy Part 2: Pooling and Selection ) of this series, we have explored what qualifies as a redundancy situation, how an employer should prepare redundancy proposals and the correct approach to pooling and selection. In this article, we answer the key questions employers ask...
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Manufacturing Joint Ventures
The ongoing global supply chain disruption caused by COVID-19 and Brexit continues to affect the manufacturing sector, particularly the import and export market. The issues have caused significant shortages of labour and key manufacturing components in the UK, as well as spikes in transportation, energy and material costs. Amidst these pressures...
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Commercial Rent (Prohibition of Upward-Only Reviews) Bill
Intervals for reviewing the rent of a lease Most medium to long term commercial leases contain provisions to allow the rent to be reviewed at intervals throughout the term of the lease. This is particularly important in longer leases, as it normally allows the landlord to renegotiate rent to ensure that they receive rental income that reflects...
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Redundancy Part 2: Pooling and Selection
This blog follows on from the first blog in our series of redundancy blogs which provided guidance for employers on the redundancy process. Pooling and selection of employees that are impacted by the redundancy situation Last week, in the first part of this series on how to manage a redundancy process, we looked at what a redundancy situation is...
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Removing a Director From a Company
Removing a director from a company can be a complex issue. There is legislation in place to protect a company's right to remove a director if the circumstances arise. There are two principal ways in which a board can remove a director from a company. 1. Removing a director by ordinary resolution of members. Section 168(1) of the...
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Higgins V Morgan and Others: Claim Against Stepfather’s Estate
Higgins v Morgan and others [2021] EWHC 2846 (Ch) – stepson successful in Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claim against his stepfather’s estate and the recoverability of success fees Myerson’s contentious trust and probate team recently obtained a successful outcome at trial in the case of Higgins v Morgan and others...
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Addiction and Divorce
The link between addiction and divorce In recent years, there has been increased societal awareness of mental health, and it is recognised that there is often a link between mental illness and substance abuse. As family lawyers, we recognise and witness first-hand the link between addiction and divorce. The most common addictions that cause...
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