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…if you want your legal personality to be an express term. Employers should note the cautionary tale of Mr & Mrs McVeigh, who appealed to the EAT on a tribunal’s determination that they personally were the employers of their dismissed employee Christine Livingstone. In the right circumstances bringing a claim against two real people can be [...] Those of you who enjoyed my post 18 months ago on celebrity egotist, hypocrite and pregnant-chef sacker Trudie Styler might have been wondering what she’s been up to since. Don’t worry! The wickedly ascerbic Marina Hyde of the Guardian’s Lost in Showbiz will give you a run down: To those of you who have written asking, “Can [...] Legal Action Group magazine has an interesting article on Legal Disciplinary Partnerships in which it derides the Law Gazette for playing one-upmanship with the Bar on their relative speed of reform to meet the changing world of legal service provision, and at the same time criticises the bar for being so slow (h/t to Pink [...] The new Supreme Court, set to open for business in October, has been showing journalists round the refurbished Middlesex Guildhall. The BBC has lots of photographs, well seven anyway, whilst the Times reckons the building lacks the ‘wow’ factor. Personally, I like the new building, but would appreciate some better decisions than Malcolm being reached once [...] The news is full of a possible £12 million pounds payment to bullied city lawyer Gillian Switalski. From the Guardian report: Switalski claims she was forced out of her £140,000-a-year job in September 2007 following 18 months of bullying and harassment. A tribunal heard her manager Marrack Tonkin criticised her for choosing flexible hours that gave [...] Back in March I wrote about the register of ‘undesirables’ in the building industry illegally maintained by Ian Kerr of the Consulting Association, and Jobsworth gave an update in May about the National Staff Dismissal Register. Ian Kerr has now been convicted of not registering as a data controller and fined £5,000 by Knutsford Crown Court. [...] |
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