Insights
Back to school: what academies and maintained schools must do to have compliant policies
09 Sept 2025Schools have a responsibility to ensure that their policies are up-to-date, compliant with current legislation and reflective of best practices. This is essential to maintain legal compliance, safeguard pupils and staff and to provide clear guidance for all.
To break or not to break: break clauses and conditionality
08 Sept 2025A landlord is not obliged to allow a tenant to surrender a commercial lease prior to the end of the contractual term. An option to break (i.e. the ability to end the lease early) incorporated within the lease is therefore a luxury many tenants simply cannot afford to lose.
What is title indemnity insurance?
08 Sept 2025Title indemnity insurance is a policy that protects property owners or lenders from financial loss resulting from defects or issues with the title to the property. Unlike regular insurance policies, title indemnity insurance covers you for potential past issues rather than future issues.
Neonatal care leave and pay – employers’ technical guide published
05 Sept 2025The Government has now published detailed technical guidance for employers on neonatal care leave (NCL) and statutory neonatal care pay (SNCP), which came into effect for babies born on or after 6 April 2025.
EHRC takes action on single-sex space policies
05 Sept 2025The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has begun regulatory action against organisations whose policies misstate the law on access to single-sex spaces.
Whistleblowing, performance management and unfair dismissal – guidance from the EAT
05 Sept 2025The EAT has upheld a tribunal’s findings on whistleblowing detriment and automatic unfair dismissal, but has ordered an unfair dismissal finding to be reconsidered because the tribunal did not take proper account of the appeal stage.
