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Cryptocurrencies, from Bitcoin and Ethereum to a growing array of digital tokens, are no longer niche financial instruments reserved for tech enthusiasts.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 promised an end to one-sided flexibility in the labour market, but it left the hardest questions unanswered. How many hours is too few before a worker deserves a guaranteed offer? What counts as fair notice of a shift? Those questions, and dozens like them, are now the subject of a government consultation that opened on 2nd June 2026 and runs until 25th August 2026.

Digital communication now plays a central role in how couples manage their relationships, both in good times and bad.

For many employers, work-related stress has traditionally sat within the domain of HR rather than legal compliance. It is acknowledged, discussed and often addressed through wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance programmes and internal guidance for managers.

Marriage in England and Wales has an unexpected legal consequence that many people never discover until it is too late. Under the Wills Act 1837, getting married or entering a civil partnership automatically revokes any existing Will, unless that Will was made specifically in contemplation of the marriage. Unless a new Will follows, years of careful estate planning can be undone by a single ceremony, often without the person ever realising that marriage carried this consequence.

When someone loses the ability to make decisions for themselves, families often find they are dealing with far more than the Court of Protection alone. A deputy may be trying to recover money taken by a dishonest attorney.

The previous structures in this series, option agreements, conditional contracts and land promotion agreements, all address the same fundamental problem: how to avoid committing the full land purchase price before planning permission is secured.

Every negotiation concerning development land always involves an element of uncertainty about what the site will ultimately be worth. The landowner wants to be paid for the potential they believe the land holds and the developer wants the price to reflect the risk they’re taking on to realise that potential.

New government analysis suggests that planned employment law reforms could significantly increase the number of workplace disputes progressing through Acas early conciliation and into the employment tribunal system, adding further pressure to a structure already facing capacity pressures.

A job offer marked “subject to” satisfactory references, right to work checks and a probationary period might feel like a holding position, something that binds no one until every box has been ticked. It is a reasonable assumption, and one that employers have often relied upon. But as a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling has made clear, that assumption can also be a costly one.

In a world where mortgage applications and medical appointments can be completed online, the appeal of drafting your own Will is understandable.

For a long time, divorce tended to follow a fairly predictable pattern, and not always a comfortable one. Even where a couple wanted to keep things amicable, the legal process could pull them in a more adversarial direction. Each person would instruct their own solicitor, communication would pass back and forth, and positions could harden without anyone setting out for that to happen.

Owning a property in Spain often begins with excitement. A retirement plan, a family holiday home, an investment for the years ahead. Unfortunately, it is often only after someone dies that families discover owning property in another country creates legal and administrative issues they had never anticipated.

For many employers, particularly SMEs, the pressure to retain good people is running ahead of what the payroll can support. Salary increases commit a business to ongoing cost, and in a period of squeezed margins and economic uncertainty, that is a commitment many cannot responsibly make. The question, then, is how to keep valued employees engaged and motivated when a pay rise is not the answer.

Employers today hold more information about their staff than ever before. Every stage of the working relationship generates data, from job applications and personnel files, to health records, scheduling systems, and even software that tracks productivity.

Divorce can be complicated for any family, but separation within a blended family often brings questions that may not arise in quite the same way in other familie

If you are thinking of leaving a gift to charity in your Will, deciding which charity to support is only one of the choices you have to make. You will also need to think about the form the gift should take, how much you want to leave and whether you want to place any conditions on how it is used.