Monthly Archives: July 2009

Express your personality

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Usefully Employed

…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 … Continue reading →

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Saviour of Planet Earth

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Usefully Employed

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 … Continue reading →

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More discussion on the future of legal services

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Usefully Employed

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, … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court opens its doors to journalists

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Usefully Employed

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, … Continue reading →

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Sex discrimination in the news

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Usefully Employed

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 … Continue reading →

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Employee blacklist owner convicted and fined

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Usefully Employed

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 … Continue reading →

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