Jackie Thomas rounds up the latest developments affecting employers and their advisers

Michelle Chance discusses the importance of normalising conversations about menstruation, miscarriage and the menopause at work

James Murray examines the interaction between the harassment provisions of the Equality Act and the law protecting academic free expression

Hina Belitz comments on proposals to record online hearings digitally

Joanne Moseley explores how employers can avoid the legal pitfalls when managing shift workers and gives some practical tips for successful shift-working arrangements

Tim Tyndall looks at the rights of workers taking part in industrial action, protections for employers from unofficial action and proposed government reforms of strike laws

With the number of employee ownership trusts more than doubling since the end of 2019, Charlie Hewlett, Hugo Brown and Tom Lethaby explain how they work and the potential pros and cons

In the fourth part of this series, Simon Fennell outlines the key issues to consider when drafting notice clauses

Antonia Blackwell rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers

Stefan Martin and Jo Broadbent comment on the bills in the Queen’s Speech that will be relevant to employment law, despite the Employment Bill’s absence

Dr Dianne Millen provides practical tips from Scotland on negotiating the no-fault landscape

Anna-Laura Lock and Anisha Patel analyse the courts’ approach to third-party financial support and when the pressure of entering into an agreement may be considered ‘undue’

Paul Linsell looks at how family law has developed and asks whether the introduction of no-fault divorce might prove to be a tipping point for further change

Sophia Leeder outlines the approach to interim orders in a case where a party has delayed in making their application and spent excessively in the meantime, as well as key practice points

Jade Quirke examines the approach of the court to an application for a parental order where a child who was now an adult had been born via surrogacy

Mollie van Geest and Heidi Molloy set out the considerations and conclusions reached on applications by adult adoptees as to the status of their birth fathers

Deborah Jeff concludes a two-part analysis of the impact of SS v NS on the approach to spousal maintenance

Alison East highlights the importance of addressing immigration and nationality issues for looked after children

Hannah Currie and Savannah Davies analyse the Court of Appeal decision in K v K as to the correct approach to fact-finding hearings in private children proceedings

Mark Pawlowski examines the principles to be applied when a co-owner or their trustee in bankruptcy claims an occupation rent

Nicola Gooch considers the barriers to the seniors housing market, in light of recent research conducted by the firm alongside Knight Frank

The Supreme Court has provided some clarity on whether operators, in particular those with pre-existing code agreements, have new code rights, as Samuel Lear finds out

Climate change regularly grabs the headlines, but are solicitors obliged to consider its impacts for property ownership as part of their advice to buyers and lenders? Julie Vaughan considers what sort of advice might a solicitor be expected to offer

Richard Spring considers the intricacies of terminating a contractor’s engagement and then provides practical advice on how to do so

Nicola Gooch of Irwin Mitchell and Matt Spilsbury of CBRE consider the proposals in the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill and the questions that still need to be answered before they make their way onto the statute books

In this second article of two on climate change, Frank Orr looks at the tension between the expectations of action raised by the CCA, the failure of national policy to meet such expectations and the case law that has – to an extent – continued to cloud the issue

Fiona Sawyer and Matthew White consider the implications for developers of the Act, and in particular of s128

Felicia Persis considers the government’s policy paper published in mid-June, which has been described as ‘biggest shake up of the private rented sector in 30 years’

Dan Easom looks at the factors to consider when considering extension of time claims

In the first of two articles on climate change, Frank Orr provides an analysis of its legislative context

A critical aspect of knowledge is not what you know, but where to look for it. Geoffrey Shindler explains how approaches to information management have changed for the trust and estate practitioner

A recent Family Court decision has valuable lessons for trust and estate practitioners dealing with foreign property inherited by a minor. Georgia Bedworth reports

Amanda Noyce examines where we are now after Whittle v Whittle 

John Sharples outlines a case that clarifies occupation rights

Laura Abbott provides a refresher on the procedure to follow in the case of a missing person, with reference to the most up-to-date case law

Rebecca McNulty discusses two recent cases from the UK and Jersey courts that emphasise the importance of a complete evidence picture when establishing mistake

Kieran Forsyth reviews a case that demonstrates the importance of obtaining a notice of severance of a joint tenancy and filing it at the Land Registry

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