Publications

Employment Rights Act 2025: Workplace access measures

In this article, Charles Pigott offers an overview of the new framework for union access agreements set out in the Employment Rights Act 2025.

8 mins

Employment Rights Act 2025: Overview of employment rights measures

The Employment Rights Act had a long and complicated Parliamentary journey which it finally completed on 16 December 2025. It received Royal Assent two days later.

6 mins

Employment Rights Act 2025: Overview of trade unions and industrial action measures

The Employment Rights Act had a long and complicated Parliamentary journey which it finally completed on 16 December 2025. It received Royal Assent two days later.

Employment Rights Act 2025: An overview

The Employment Rights Act 2025 was introduced in the House of Commons last year and is in the final stages of the Parliamentary process.

Employment Rights Act 2025: Fire and re-hire

In this briefing we will focus the provisions in the Employment Rights Act which will make certain fire and re-hire dismissals automatically unfair. The Government plans to implement these changes in October 2026.

17 Dec 2025

4 mins

Understanding personal health budgets and deputyship roles

The case of Lumb v NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB & Anor [2024] EWCOP 57 (T2) relates to a public health budget and whether the management of this falls within the usual authorisations for a property and affairs deputy.

Jurisdictional limits of bankruptcy

The High Court considered whether a bankruptcy order, made by the Office of the Adjudicator, should be annulled due to lack of jurisdiction. The case considered key issues for trustees and cross-border insolvency practitioners.

Court dismisses bankrupt’s disclosure and injunction applications and strikes out negligence claim

The court has rejected a bankrupt’s applications for disclosure and an injunction, while striking out the bankrupt’s negligence claim relating to a property sale, citing disproportionate or irrelevant requests and unsustainable claims.

Argentex: What is an administration expense?

In relation to an EMI special administration, the ICC judge in this case considered whether closing out customer contracts could have the effect of creating an expense liability for in the money customers.

Poundland restructure plan

Earlier this summer, Sir Alastair Norris sanctioned Poundland’s restructuring plan which has prevented this well-known retailer from entering administration.

When can administrator remuneration be challenged under rule 18.34

In the recent decision of Pagden v Ridgley [2025] EWHC 2674 (Ch), the court considered the question of the scope of a creditor’s right to challenge administrator remuneration.