Employment Law Journal
Legal news: Employment update

Jo Broadbent rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers
Fire and rehire: P&O Ferries affair prompts promise of a code of practice

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
Dismissal: Settlement agreements – what can the P&O scandal tell us?

Joseph Lappin reviews how to use confidential settlement agreements correctly after accusations that P&O ‘blackmailed’ staff into signing away their employment rights
Trade unions: Courts come full circle on detrimental treatment against strikers

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
Public holidays: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – when are workers entitled to paid time off?

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
Misconduct: Can employers dismiss for committing a criminal offence?

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
Demystifying employment contracts: Flexibility and mobility clauses

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
Legal news: Employment update

Leah Aschettino rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers
Employment status: Who is a worker, when and why?

Ed Livingstone and Kimberly Dennis give a summary of recent cases on worker status
Confidential information: Possession is not nine tenths of the law

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
Family Law Journal
Financial provision: An invisible cohort?

Farhana Shahzady asks whether family lawyers are failing women who are going through the menopause
Schedule 1: Setting boundaries

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
Liabilities: Minding your P v Q

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
Law reform: Lessons to be learnt

Beth Duffy outlines the provisions of the pilot for private children proceedings and the potential for improvements to the current process
Evidence: In all honesty

Holly Cook and Jacob Quested Khan consider protection from self-incrimination in private law children proceedings
Maintenance pending suit: One size does not fit all

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
Private children: Same difference?

Katherine Res Pritchard and Sacha Lee look at internal relocation and the approach taken by the courts following Re C
Private children: Narrowing the options

Danielle Nuttall analyses the approach to orders made at interim hearings in private children proceedings
Divorce: Starting afresh

Marwa Hadi-Barnes outlines the changes to divorce and dissolution with the advent of no-fault divorce, including procedural considerations
Fertility treatment: Preparing for the worst

Natalie Sutherland looks at posthumous conception and issues of consent and legal parenthood
Property Law Journal
Leaseholds: Ground zero

Are doubling ground rents legally fair? Jessica Parry, Edward Blakeney and James Fieldsend consider the evidence
Habitats Regulations Assessments: Refocusing towards nature’s recovery

Fiona Sawyer considers the regulations and how the regime will change following a government refocus announced earlier in May
Construction focus: The unwritten rule

Emma Swan warns against the use of oral contracts in order to avoid uncertainty
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill: Planning changes

Nicola Gooch provides an initial overview of the planning-related proposals in the Bill
Joint ownership: Common intention and detriment?

Mark Pawlowski considers whether detriment is a necessary requirement in joint ownership cases involving the family home
Residential ground rents: The end of the road

Alexandra Adams and Sarah Buxton review the first of the government’s planned leasehold reforms to get over the line
Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022: Business as usual

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

Julie Vaughan considers a select committee report calling for the removal of asbestos and its implications
Case study: Repairs around a river

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
Planning reform: The Levelling Up agenda

Fiona Sawyer considers what the Levelling Up White Paper says about taking forward the Planning White Paper planning reforms
Trusts & Estates Law and Tax Journal
Musings from Manchester: Putting trust professionals in the role of policing the anti-money laundering industry is unhelpful and onerous
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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
Quistclose trusts: A high threshold of facts

Recent case law has confirmed that Quistclose trusts do not override commercial practice. Professor Sukhninder Panesar explains
Alternative dispute resolution: Seeking consensus

Dawn Goodman explores how mediation can work well in trust and estates disputes
Jurisdiction: After Brexit

Simon Adamyk and Jessica Powers examine the current judicial approach to jurisdictional challenges on forum non conveniens grounds
Wills: High Court rules against multimillionaire’s 2014 will

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
Trusts: Doing away with the need for detrimental reliance

Guy Holland analyses whether a cohabitee’s beneficial interest can be varied by express agreement alone
Practice spotlight: Can you trust your instincts?

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

James Sheedy reviews what the trustee needs to know about impact investing
Musings from Manchester: The new generation
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What is the best approach to training future trust and estate practitioners? Geoffrey Shindler draws on the past to learn lessons for the future
Mental capacity: A history of local authority interventions
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Denzil Lush sheds light on the origins of local authority involvement in mental incapacity proceedings