Jo Broadbent rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers

Richard Kenyon comments on the government’s proposals for a new statutory code of practice to clamp down on employers who force through mass dismissals without carrying out meaningful staff consultation

Joseph Lappin reviews how to use confidential settlement agreements correctly after accusations that P&O ‘blackmailed’ staff into signing away their employment rights

The Court of Appeal has overturned the EAT and decided that workers are not protected against detriment for participating in industrial action. Philip Cameron and Chris Coombes report

With the long weekend for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee approaching in June, Katie Spearman explains whether workers will be entitled to an extra day off and considers some of the tricky issues when it comes to public holidays

In light of the police fines issued to those who attended Downing Street events during lockdown, Sungjin Park examines how to deal with employees who break the law

In the second part of this series, Amy Leech discusses the key legal principles and case law behind contractual flexibility clauses, including those concerned with mobility

Leah Aschettino rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers

Ed Livingstone and Kimberly Dennis give a summary of recent cases on worker status

A recent case has highlighted the effectiveness of express provisions in protecting confidential documents retained by departing employees to use in subsequent litigation. Innes Clark reports

Farhana Shahzady asks whether family lawyers are failing women who are going through the menopause

Matthew Hodgson and Edward Davison highlight a Sch 1 claim where the court considered the approach to indebtedness and provision to allow for future career development

David Wilkinson sets out the key principles to be applied in cases involving obligations owed by the parties and what may categorise a debt as hard or soft

Beth Duffy outlines the provisions of the pilot for private children proceedings and the potential for improvements to the current process

Holly Cook and Jacob Quested Khan consider protection from self-incrimination in private law children proceedings

Heather Lucy analyses the lessons that can be learnt from a judgment in an ultra-high-net-worth case as to interim applications more generally

Katherine Res Pritchard and Sacha Lee look at internal relocation and the approach taken by the courts following Re C

Danielle Nuttall analyses the approach to orders made at interim hearings in private children proceedings

Marwa Hadi-Barnes outlines the changes to divorce and dissolution with the advent of no-fault divorce, including procedural considerations

Natalie Sutherland looks at posthumous conception and issues of consent and legal parenthood

Are doubling ground rents legally fair? Jessica Parry, Edward Blakeney and James Fieldsend consider the evidence

Fiona Sawyer considers the regulations and how the regime will change following a government refocus announced earlier in May

Emma Swan warns against the use of oral contracts in order to avoid uncertainty

Nicola Gooch provides an initial overview of the planning-related proposals in the Bill

Mark Pawlowski considers whether detriment is a necessary requirement in joint ownership cases involving the family home

Alexandra Adams and Sarah Buxton review the first of the government’s planned leasehold reforms to get over the line

With the end of restrictions preventing landlords from taking action against their tenants, Dev Desai considers the new legislation put in place

Julie Vaughan considers a select committee report calling for the removal of asbestos and its implications

A landowner is facing a number of offences for carrying out alleged repair works on his land. Jill Crawford investigates the incident and its implications

Fiona Sawyer considers what the Levelling Up White Paper says about taking forward the Planning White Paper planning reforms

Does the Trust Registration Service achieve its anti-money laundering goals, or is it just another expensive layer of bureaucracy for clients, asks Geoffrey Shindler

Recent case law has confirmed that Quistclose trusts do not override commercial practice. Professor Sukhninder Panesar explains

Dawn Goodman explores how mediation can work well in trust and estates disputes

Simon Adamyk and Jessica Powers examine the current judicial approach to jurisdictional challenges on forum non conveniens grounds

Documentary records were critical in establishing lack of knowledge and consent in a high-value judgment over an illiterate settlor’s will. Kevin Modiri discusses

Guy Holland analyses whether a cohabitee’s beneficial interest can be varied by express agreement alone

Sheila Rusike and Jo Summers outline some interesting trust practice points gleaned from their recent experience for the benefit of other practitioners

James Sheedy reviews what the trustee needs to know about impact investing

What is the best approach to training future trust and estate practitioners? Geoffrey Shindler draws on the past to learn lessons for the future

Denzil Lush sheds light on the origins of local authority involvement in mental incapacity proceedings