Day: 27 July 2026

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

Source: littletonchambers.com

‘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

Source: www.3harecourt.com

‘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

Source: www.theguardian.com

‘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

Source: www.bbc.co.uk