- This is a blog containing information and commentary on all areas of UK employment law. Please join the debate, and subscribe for regular updates!
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Absence
- Acas
- Compromise Agreements
- Constructive Dismissal
- Contracts of Employment
- Costs
- Disciplinary
- Discrimination
- Dispute Resolution regulations
- Employment Tribunal
- EU Legislation
- Family Friendly Rights
- Garden Leave
- Grievance
- Health & Safety
- Lawyers
- Limitation Periods
- National Minimum Wage
- Podcasts
- Rambling
- Ramblings
- Recruitment
- Redundancy
- Reinstatement & Re-engagement
- Remedies
- Retirement
- Solicitors
- Status
- The Great Divide
- Trade Unions
- TUPE
- Uncategorized
- Unfair Dismissal
- Usefully Employed
- Working Time Regulations
Latest EAT Judgments- Bivonas LLP & Ors v Bennett (Sexual Orientation Discrimination or Transexualism) [2011] UKEAT 0254_11_3101 (31 January 2012)
- Odukwe v The Partners of Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers (Jurisdictional Points : 2002 Act and pre-action requirements) [2012] UKEAT 0547_10_2701 (27 January 2012)
- Amin v Wincanton Group Ltd (Jurisdictional Points : 2002 Act and pre-action requirements) [2011] UKEAT 0508_10_2501 (25 January 2012)
- Roberts v North West Ambulance Service (Disability Discrimination : Reasonable adjustments) [2011] UKEAT 0085_11_2401 (24 January 2012)
- O' Cathail v Transport For London (Practice and Procedure : Case Management) (Rev 1) [2011] UKEAT 0247_11_1301 (13 January 2012)
- Scottish Ambulance Service v Truslove & Anor (Working Time Regulations) [2012] UKEAT 0028_11_1201 (12 January 2012)
- Collins v Club 24 Ltd (t/a Ventura) (Victimisation Discrimination) [2012] UKEAT 0028_11_1201 (12 January 2012)
- Vetco Gray UK Ltd v Garden (Unfair Dismissal : Reasonableness of dismissal) [2012] UKEAT 0025_11_1101 (11 January 2012)
- Simpson v Strathclyde Police & Anor (Practice and Procedure : Imposition of Deposit) [2012] UKEAT 0030_11_1001 (10 January 2012)
- Mustafa v Guy's And St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (Practice and Procedure : Striking-out or dismissal) [2011] UKEAT 0516_11_2212 (Rev 1) (22 December 2011)
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Express your personality
…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
Saviour of Planet Earth
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
Posted in Rambling
Leave a comment
More discussion on the future of legal services
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
Posted in Rambling
Leave a comment
Supreme Court opens its doors to journalists
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
Sex discrimination in the news
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
Employee blacklist owner convicted and fined
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