The Government has published its “roadmap” (a timetable) for introducing its proposed radical programme of changes to employment law. Despite deliberately introducing its Employment Bill within the first 100 days of power, the new timetable has considerably less urgency and much of the legislative programme we have been discussing over the past year has been delayed. In particular, the much-heralded right to claim unfair dismissal from the first day of employment (rather than after two years) has been delayed to an unspecified date in 2027.

In the second of our two-part update on the upcoming changes to be introduced as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), this article focuses on the new corporate offence of “failure to prevent fraud” (FTPF), introduced to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account for committing serious crimes. The FTPF offence will come into force on 1 September 2025.

In the first of our two-part update on the upcoming changes to be introduced as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), this article focuses on the new identity verification (IDV) requirements for directors, people with significant control (PSCs) and any other individuals who file documents at Companies House on behalf of UK companies.

I have lost count of how many times, over the past decade, I have deleted the word “gender” in a client’s equality policy and replaced it with the word “sex”, not through any ideological conviction but simply because it reflects the wording in the Equality Act 2010.

The Upper Tribunal handed down its decision on two appeals relating to the statutory test for a “self-contained part” of a building pursuant to section 72(3) and 72(4) of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (“CLRA”) on 7 February 2025.

The importance of pre-action correspondence was highlighted in the Upper Tribunal appeal case of Zaid Alothman Holdings Ltd and 75 others v Better Intelligent Management Ltd [2024].