The Government has today published a roadmap for the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. The changes will be implemented in 3 phases with Stage 1 coming into effect on 1 May 2026 to implement the new tenancy regime.

On 22 October 2025, the Renters’ Rights Bill (the “Bill”) was finally approved by the House of Commons. It is now expected to receive Royal Assent within the next two weeks and by early November at the latest.

The Commercial, IP & Technology team will be hosting a workshop on the green lights and red flags of navigating commercial law in 2026.

Following on from our updates earlier in the year on the upcoming changes to be introduced as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), Companies House has now confirmed the new identity verification (IDV) requirements.

The Government has published its “roadmap” (a timetable) for introducing its proposed radical programme of changes to employment law. Despite deliberately introducing its Employment Bill within the first 100 days of power, the new timetable has considerably less urgency and much of the legislative programme we have been discussing over the past year has been delayed. In particular, the much-heralded right to claim unfair dismissal from the first day of employment (rather than after two years) has been delayed to an unspecified date in 2027.

In the second of our two-part update on the upcoming changes to be introduced as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), this article focuses on the new corporate offence of “failure to prevent fraud” (FTPF), introduced to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account for committing serious crimes. The FTPF offence will come into force on 1 September 2025.