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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has substituted a finding of unfair dismissal where an employer’s internal appeal process broke down in a series of serious procedural failures.

The first substantive tranche of trade union reforms under the Employment Rights Act 2025 came into force on 18 February 2026. 

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance on the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland. The judgment provides important clarification for employers navigating single-sex facilities and gender reassignment discrimination.

The EAT has found that a tribunal failed properly to analyse whether an employer acted because of a protected belief or because of concerns about how that belief might be expressed in practice.

The Court of Appeal has held that a provision in the NHS Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) framework requiring the Medical Director to act as case manager was incorporated into a consultant’s contract of employment.

The draft 2026 revision of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), if adopted, would introduce significant statutory changes in relation to gender-questioning children. Most notably, the Department for Education wishes to embed this content directly within KCSIE itself, rather than issuing standalone guidance.