From player mobility and contractual leverage to managerial dismissals and employment protections, the Act has the potential to reshape key aspects of the professional game.

Members of Littleton Chambers have explored these issues in a three-part series for LawInSport:

• Football and the Employment Rights Act 2025: A Structural Reset for Employment
• Greater Player Power? How the Employment Rights Act 2025 May Impact Football’s Labour Market
• Managers to Benefit from Greater Protection from Unfair Dismissal under the Employment Rights Act 2025.

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Littleton Chambers, 9th June 2026

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‘The underlying claim is one of clinical negligence, namely an allegation that the Defendant failed to offer a neurology referral following an episode of facial numbness, resulting in delayed diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The application arose as correspondence that had been sent to the Defendants’ surgery from the Claimant had been mishandled and had not been passed to the Defendants by the surgery’s practice manager. Consequently, the first that the Defendants were aware of the claim against them was the discovery of an unopened notice of an adjourned court hearing after the practice manager had gone on sick leave. By this point, default judgment had already been entered against the Defendants, and so they made an application for this to be set aside. At first instance Mr Recorder Neville dismissed the Defendants’ application, finding that the defences disclosed no real prospects of success, and the Defendants subsequently appealed.’

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Guildhall Chambers, 2nd July 2026

Source: www.guildhallchambers.co.uk

‘The collapse of Axiom Ince is set to cost the solicitors’ profession £39m in payouts from the SRA Compensation Fund, most of which have now been made, it has emerged.’

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Legal Futures, 27th July 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 (“the Regulations”) provide a workable framework for when an organiser wishes to make a single pre-departure change to a package holiday. In sum, Regulation 11 distinguishes between 1) insignificant changes, which may generally be made unilaterally by the organiser, and 2) significant changes, which entitle the traveller to choose whether to accept the amended package or terminate the contract.’

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3 Hare Court, 9th July 2026

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‘The High Court’s decision to adjourn the Aabar Holdings SARL v Glencore plc securities trial is more than a significant case-management ruling in a high-profile dispute. It is a reminder that, where civil claims and criminal enforcement proceedings arise from the same alleged misconduct, sequencing risk can become a central feature of the litigation. The order in which those processes unfold may affect litigation strategy, settlement dynamics and the evidential landscape.’

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Law Society Gazette, 24th July 2026

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

‘Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.’

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The Guardian, 27th July 2026

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‘A woman whose dead father was discovered at an undertaker’s three months after his funeral says her hellish ordeal has “crucified” her. The body of Peter Moody, 65, was found by police alongside 34 others and more than 100 sets of ashes at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024. One of the bodies had been there for a year.’

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BBC News, 27th July 2026

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‘An early release scheme for thousands of prisoners paused by Andy Burnham after an outcry from victims could still take place this autumn, despite warnings by probation officers of potential chaos.’

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The Guardian, 23rd July 2026

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‘Organisations in the UK have less than a month to prepare for the impact of new rules governing the use of single sex facilities after the proposals cleared parliament, an expert has warned.’

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OUT-LAW.com, 23rd July 2026

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‘Parliamentary sovereignty is perhaps the most important principle in UK constitutional law. However, in three of the most significant constitutional cases decided in the last decade, the UK Supreme Court’s treatment of parliamentary sovereignty has been distinguished by two characteristics – namely, the novelty of its approach to the principle and a paucity of accompanying judicial reasoning. The cases in question are R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22, R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41 (“Miller II”) and In re United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill [2021] UKSC 42 (“UNCRC”).’

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Public Law for Everyone, 21st July 2026

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‘A double killer who has been in jail for a quarter of a century has claimed he is standing trial over new charges of sexual offences as a tactic to stop him from being freed on parole.’

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The Guardian, 23rd July 2026

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‘The Civil Justice Council (CJC) is to continue exploring “proportionate transparency” on the use of AI in preparing witness statements for trial but will not extend it to other documents.’

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Legal Futures, 24th July 2026

Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk

‘The landmark legal action over brain damage in rugby is on the brink of collapse as the managing judge weighs whether to strike out 95% of the first batch of 561 claimants on the grounds they have failed to comply with a court order to disclose all available documents relating to their neurological testing.’

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The Guardian, 23rd July 2026

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘Former Coronation Street actor Qasim Akhtar is to receive “substantial” damages from the Sun’s publisher, to settle a High Court libel claim.’

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BBC News, 23rd July 2026

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‘A man has been jailed for 12 years after police uncovered more than 2,000 litres of GBL, a liquid drug which is linked to spiking, and more commonly known as the ‘date rape drug’.’

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The Independent, 23rd July 2026

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‘The gender pay gap (GPG) has long occupied the UK political agenda. Beginning with David Cameron, successive Conservative prime ministers expressed an ambition to close the GPG entirely ‘within a generation’. Although the GPG of all UK workers has been steadily declining over time (falling from 27.5 per cent in 1997 to 12.8 per cent in 2025),at the current rate it is projected to take another 20 years to close. This slow progress has prompted successive governments to introduce voluntary initiatives and regulatory measures aimed at accelerating the rate of decline. The most significant of these was the introduction of the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (‘the GPG Regulations’), which made annual GPG reporting mandatory for employers with 250 or more employees.’

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King's Law Journal, 21st July 2026

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‘This blog, which is co-authored by planning and environment barrister Claire Nevin and PFAS expert witness Geraint Williams, examines some of the technical and legal challenges associated with water infrastructure consenting in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for PFAS and other pollutants of concern. It is essential reading for those working in the water infrastructure and development consenting sectors.’

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Francis Taylor Building, 7th July 2026

Source: www.ftbchambers.co.uk

‘On 20 May 2026, the independent Climate Change Committee (“the Committee”) released its Fourth Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk (“the Report”). The Report sets out key risks for the UK posed by climate change, and recommends particular actions for ameliorating those risks. Those recommended actions bear particular weight in light of the ECtHR’s decision in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v Switzerland (2024) 79 EHRR 1 (“KlimaSeniorinnen”).’

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Francis Taylor Building, 1st July 2026

Source: www.ftbchambers.co.uk

‘The Court of Appeal has upheld a finding of full liability against the Ministry of Defence after an 18-year-old soldier sustained a significant brain injury when he fell over a low landing balustrade in barracks. In my view, the judgment is important well beyond its military setting. It addresses the proper limits of appellate intervention, the status of a visitor under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, the relevance of current standards to older premises, causation in falls from height, and the evidential burden on a defendant alleging contributory negligence.’

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Exchange Chambers, 13th July 2026

Source: www.exchangechambers.co.uk