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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Right of Way on Agricultural Land
Potential breach of covenant The High Court considered in the case of Mills v Estate of Partridge and another [2020] whether the owner of land that benefited from a right of way over an adjoining property had breached a restrictive covenant that affected the land and a condition that also restricted a right of way. The case concerned a site in...
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Performance Security on Construction Projects
Ensuring contractor performance in construction projects Myerson have made a short video guide regarding the options for performance security for construction projects in the UK. Our construction department goes over the importance of performance security being a critical requirement to provide protection against the default and potential...
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Interim Payment Applications
Interim Payment Applications Myerson have made a short video guide in relation to a recent court decision that may be of interest to those currently working on construction projects, and dealing with interim payment applications. The case brought to light is RGB plastering against towing dry lining and plastering, RGB engaged TAWE as a dry lining...
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Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and Resting on Contract
Historically, it was possible to avoid or defer payment of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on land purchases by leaving the transaction ‘resting on contract’, meaning that the contract for the purchase of a property would be exchanged and the purchase price would be paid by the buyer to the seller but the actual transfer of the legal interest in the...
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Financial Abuse in Divorce
Abuse can come in many forms, emotional, physical, psychological and financial. Financial abuse tends to build up over time, and it may isolate those who experience it from family and friends if they do not have money to socialise. Financial abuse is a form of controlling or coercive behaviour which may also indicate that other forms of domestic...
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The Impact of Brexit on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
As we near the end of the transition period on the 31st December 2020, around 5.9 million SMEs in the UK will be anxiously awaiting the outcome over whether a deal is struck. Amid the uncertainty, SMEs should be mindful of the impact that Brexit could have when making plans and commitments to the post-Brexit future. This feature provides an...
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Overage Agreements: What Are They and How Do They Work?
There's a lot of discussion about how complicated overage is. The mention of overage is often greeted with trepidation as to what it might entail as a person contemplating entering into an overage agreement , whether as a seller or a buyer. Knowing what factors are important will help you conduct your negotiations and anticipate where the bumps...
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Removing Trustees and Incapacitated Trustees
Guidance relating to Removing a Trustee and Incapacitated Trustees When a Trustee loses mental capacity, they are unable to fulfil their responsibility to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries and protect the trust assets. This creates risks and difficulties for the other trustees and the beneficiaries. There are some important things to...
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What Are a Tenant's Rights If There Is No Written Tenancy Agreement?
A written tenancy agreement documents the term on which a tenant occupies a property. Such properly written agreements provide certainty for the parties and can set out the mechanism for resolution of any disputes. It is not generally advisable for...
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Construction Adjudication: Styles & Wood Case Study
Myerson Solicitors successfully advise on first adjudication enforcement decision for a company in administration based on Bresco Electrical Services Ltd v Michael J Lonsdale (Electrical) Ltd Law firm Myerson successfully represented Styles & Wood Limited in enforcing an adjudicator’s decision against GE CIF Trustees Limited in what may be the...
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Caveats: Warning & Appearances – What Are They?
When somebody dies their property and finances, known as their ‘Estate’, need to be dealt with. The people that deal with the estate are known as the Personal Representatives or “PR’s”. To be able to act in this role they must send certain documents, including the deceased Will (if they have one), to the Probate Registry. If the probate registry...
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What Trusts Must Be Registered?
What trusts must be registered? If you are a trustee of an existing trust or if you are creating a new trust, then you need to be aware of wide-ranging changes to the requirements to register a trust with HMRC. It used to be the case that only trusts incurring a tax liability had to be registered with HMRC, but the changes mean that most trusts...
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