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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Mental Capacity Through the Eyes of a Private Client Solicitor: Wills, Trusts and LPAs
Mental capacity is a legal concept. It refers to an individual’s ability to make decisions for themselves. We, as Wills, Trusts, and Probate Solicitors have a duty to consider whether our clients have the requisite capacity to make a Will (referred...
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Tenants in Administration
The commercial property market is unsurprisingly suffering from the UKs economic turmoil, with many tenants feeling the pressure and struggling to trade and subsequently entering into administration. Landlords of commercial premises will...
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For Richer, For Poorer?
A widow has recently succeeded in her contentious probate claim for financial provision from her late husbands estate. She brought her claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family Dependants Act) 1975 as, despite 66 years of marriage, her...
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The Energy Crisis and the Hospitality and Leisure Sector
The energy crisis will continue to affect the hospitality and leisure sector. As a result of the increase in costs, many businesses have found it difficult to trade and pay their rent following the terms of their lease. In October, the National...
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First-time Buyers and the Struggle to Get on the Ladder
It is without a doubt that first-time buyers are facing many struggles to get onto the property ladder and have been facing these obstacles for some time now. These have been particularly amplified in the past few months, but many are questioning...
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The Implications of Social Media for Commercial Agents Operating in the UK
Social media has become an essential tool for commercial agents in the UK to promote products, build brand awareness and engage with customers. However, using social media also presents legal risks and challenges that commercial agents must...
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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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Myerson Supports H2Origin in Contracting for Sustainable Success
Myerson Solicitors has recently assisted a Manchester-based start-up, H2Origin, in designing and developing the contract which will establish the structure of its key partner relationships. With the help of Myerson’s Commercial Team , H2Origin has...
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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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