On Wednesday, 11 September 2024, the new Renters’ Rights Bill was published and introduced to Parliament.
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In previous updates, we outlined that the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (“the Tipping Act”) received Royal Assent in May 2023 and will come into force on 1 October 2024.
In May 2024, the House of Lords approved the Government’s draft Code of Practice on the fair and transparent distribution of tips (“the Code of Practice”).
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Continuing our series of updates on the LAFRA, we now turn to the LAFRA provisions in relation to service charges, estate management fees and the Building Safety Act.
Read MoreThe LFRA was passed and obtained Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 as the last piece of legislation passed in the wash-up before parliament was prorogued. The premise of the LFRA is to provide Leaseholders with more rights and protections and to make extending their lease or buying their freehold easier and cheaper.
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Our quarterly employment law newsletter, dealing in this edition with recent cases and proposed changes to fire and re-hire practices and the use of fit notes
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Section 21 ‘no-fault‘ evictions are a provision of the Housing Act 1988 which, in general terms and subject to certain preconditions, allows landlords to evict tenants at the end of the fixed term of an assured shorthold tenancy without providing a reason and on giving at least two months’ notice.
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As you may already be aware, a new piece of legislation called the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) brings in a number of changes aimed at tackling the abuse of corporate structures in the UK by increasing the transparency of corporate entities.
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Our quarterly employment law newsletter, dealing in this edition with recent cases, new legislation and changes effective from 6 April 2024
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This guidance note sets out an overview of the Government’s proposals on changes to service charge legislation in light of the incoming Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.
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The Government is in the course of introducing a radical bill which seeks to reform the current system of leasehold in the UK
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As part of the UK Government’s clamp down on corporate fraud, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) was given Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Act will bring in a number of changes aimed at tackling the abuse of corporate structures in the UK by increasing transparency of corporate entities.
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The Building Safety Act 2022 (“the BSA”) created statutory protections for tenants of qualifying buildings in order to cap service charges payable in relation to works required to rectify building safety defects.
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The King’s Speech on 7 November briefly touched on the long-awaited leasehold reforms by promising to make it “cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and tackling the exploitation of millions of homeowners through punitive service charges”.
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Third time lucky with US UK Data Transfers?
The distance between London and Washington is 3,674 miles. For data transfers this journey has proven difficult. We have had the Safe Harbor and the Privacy Shield – mechanisms agreed by the EU and US to facilitate the flow of data from the EU to the US. Both were set aside by the European Court of Justice.
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Our quarterly employment law newsletter, dealing in this edition with recent cases, new legislation and the Labour Party’s proposed reforms.
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Views in the “transgender debate” are often strongly held (or, in the words of a recent tribunal decision, ”rhadamanthine”) . In most workforces of any size, there will be a range of views regarding whether a trans-woman is actually a woman and on related topics such as transgender participation in women’s sport or the use of single-sex facilities, such as changing rooms and toilets.
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For many decades, the extent to which a UK employer can prevent its most senior and business-critical employees from leaving to start up in competition or join a competitor has been subject to common law rules relating to restraint of trade.
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The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023
On 2 May 2023, The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill received Royal Assent and is now law, although not yet in force.
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On 10 May 2023, the government announced that it proposed making three significant changes to employment law.
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EPC changes from 1 April 2023
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