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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Ding Dong the ICO Calling?
Breach of Data Protection Law Doorbell cameras can give homeowners peace of mind over burglary concerns and are a convenient way for many to manage their deliveries. However, a court has recently upheld a claim that their use was a breach of data protection law, and with the risk of a substantial fine this carries, how concerned should we be...
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Redundancy Part 1: A Guide for Employers
Guidance for employers on the redundancy process The impact of the pandemic on the economy is still being felt and understood. Despite positive recent signs in the UK employment market, there remains high levels of pessimism and uncertainty over jobs. An estimated one million workers remained on furlough at the end of the Government’s furlough...
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Business Debt Recovery Claims: What Is the Time Limit for Collecting Debts?
Business debt recovery claims As business debt recovery specialists, a common question that we get asked by creditors is how long they have to collect outstanding debts. Before we look at the law on time limits for collecting debts, it is important to remember that with debt recovery claims, time is of the essence. When a payment becomes...
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Myerson Solicitors Real Estate Network Presents: The Annual Property Update
You can now watch a replay of the Annual Property Update, presented by Partner and Head of Commercial Property, Joanne Perritt , Partner within Property Litigation, Laura Pile , Partner and Head of Residential Property, Heather Adams and Senior Associate in Commercial Property James Minshull as they discuss: Pandemic Clause in lease renewals ESG...
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Dispute Resolution Procedures in Manufacturing Contracts
Manufacturing Contracts In simple terms, manufacturing contracts generally involve one party supplying goods and/or services to another, the classic customer/supplier relationship. The contract can be a one-off sale or a longer-term project involving several businesses working together. Parties to a manufacturing contract will usually enter...
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Leases: Security of Tenure and Contracting out
What is security of tenure? Under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954), if a Tenant fulfils the criteria in the LTA 1954, it will have a statutory right to renew its lease at the end of the contractual term. The Landlord can only refuse to grant a new lease to the Tenant in limited circumstances prescribed by the LTA 1954. When does...
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Top 10 Tips on How to Deal With Flexible Working Requests
Dealing with flexible working requests In August 2021, an Employment Tribunal awarded a Claimant nearly £185,000 as compensation for indirect sex discrimination after the Claimant's flexible working request on her return from maternity leave was refused without proper consideration. Given the potential repercussions for employers in getting this...
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Rectifying a Mistake on a Transfer Deed
Ralph v Ralph [2021] EWCA Civ 1106 The Court of Appeal has held that an error made in a transfer deed could not be rectified as the parties to the deed never agreed on how the property in question should be held. The case of Ralph v Ralph [2021] EWCA Civ 1106 highlights the importance of agreeing on how joint purchasers will share the...
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Career-Long Losses Awarded in the Employment Tribunal
The EAT has upheld an ET’s decision to award career-long losses to an employee unable to work again due to treatment suffered by their employer. Background Mr Plaistow worked as a prison officer from 2003 until he was dismissed for gross misconduct in August 2016. In 2014, Mr Plaistow, at his request, transferred from HMP Feltham to HMP...
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Discharge of Restrictive Covenants
Modification and discharge of restrictive covenants The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has given a judgment on a case regarding the discharge of a restrictive covenant. In the case of Father’s Field Developments Limited v Namulas Pension Trustees Limited [2021] UKUT 169 (LC), the applicant in the matter purchased a part of the Earls Colne Golf...
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Dress Code Discrimination in the Workplace
Is it discrimination to stop staff from wearing religious symbols and dress at work? The pandemic made most workplace dress codes redundant, as many staff swapped in-person meetings and business attire for video calls from the kitchen table in casual clothes. Dress codes exist to help an employer ensure that their employees wear appropriate...
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Renewable Energy Schemes for Agricultural Land
Renewable Energy Schemes Farmers have always looked to technology to improve efficiency in their businesses. Over the last few decades, it has come to play an even more crucial role in farming, both in terms of harnessing technological advances to improve productivity, and, helping to tackle climate change. There is global pressure to reduce the...
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