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Employment Rights Act The Employment Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, marking a pivotal moment in UK employment legislation. Widely regarded as the most significant upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation, the Act introduces 28 wide ranging reforms... Employment Bulletin - December 2025 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment Rights Bill: further changes to the unfair dismissal regime Collective redundancies: new online Form HR1 Extension of ACAS Early Conciliation Reform of non-compete clauses Appointment of provisional liquidator... Mining the copyright aspects of Getty Images v Stability AI On 4 November 2025, the UK High Court handed down its much-anticipated decision in Getty Images v Stability AI. Whilst the scope of the case ended up being much narrower than initially expected, after Getty dropped its claims for primary copyright and... FX collective proceedings: The Supreme Court judgment On 18 December 2025, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running foreign exchange (FX) collective proceedings (Evans v Barclays Bank plc & others). The judgment represents a landmark decision for the competition law collective... That was the year that was 2025 2025 was the year that ‘Celebrity Traitors’ captivated the nation; so much so that it looked like Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer were inspired to betray their voters and kill their manifesto commitment to not raise taxes. As it happens, they couldn’t... Priorities in focus: 10 years of competition law in Hong Kong In this briefing, we highlight some of the latest developments in 2025 and revisit some of the pivotal milestones in the first decade of Hong Kong’s competition law regime.   2025 marks a significant milestone for Hong Kong’s competition law regime –... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: FX collective proceedings: UK Supreme Court judgment On 18 December 2025, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down its judgment in the long-running foreign exchange (FX) collective proceedings (Evans v Barclays Bank plc & others). The judgment represents a landmark decision for the competition law... Public offers and admissions to trading regime: new rules come into force - highlights for Debt Capital Markets On 19 January 2026, the new public offers and admissions to trading regime comes into force, replacing the UK prospectus regulation-based regime that the UK inherited from the EU. On 19 January 2026, the new public offers and admissions to trading regime... Public offers and admissions to trading regime: new rules come into force - highlights for Equity Capital Markets On 19 January 2026 the UK’s new public offers and admissions to trading regime comes into force. Together with updates to the listing regime made in July 2024, the changes represent a crucial modernising step in the ongoing revitalisation of UK capital... Employment Bulletin - January 2026 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment Rights Act: first set of changes; Trader entitled to discretionary bonus for period prior to dismissal; Complaint about tweets did not induce discrimination; Reduction in compensation for procedurally unfair...