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19 Oct 2018 13:50
What do Lawyers Want from Their Legal Secretaries and PAs?On one level, there are as many answers to this question as there are Legal Secretaries and Lawyers. Every working relationship is different, and most of us will have found out that what perfectly suits one relationship doesn’t work at all in another. However, as someone who has worked both as a more...
16 Oct 2018 15:25
Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Limited: vicarious liability revisitedThe Court of Appeal has allowed the Claimant’s appeal in Clive Bellman (A Protected Party By His Litigation Friend Nick Bellman) v Northampton Recruitment Limited (2018) EWCA Civ 2214, in a decision that involves a redrawing of the limits of vicarious liability for the violent conduct of an employee more...
27 Sep 2018 11:47
How Lawyers Rely on Their SecretariesLegal Secretaries help Lawyers with their work and are an integral part of a team of legal professionals. One of the most important relationships Lawyers develop in their professional working lives is with their Secretary, so it is beneficial to be of as much assistance as possible to optimise their more...
6 Sep 2018 15:15
Commission on Justice in WalesThe Commission on Justice in Wales has been set up by the First Minister to review the operation of the justice system in Wales. Terms of reference for the Commission on Justice in Wales. To review the operation of the justice system in Wales and set a long term vision for its future, with a view to more...
Lawyers shouldn't be robbing the vulnerable of their rights
This content is posted with permission of Jolyon Maugham QC and was originally posted on Waitingfortax.com. The law touches all aspects of our everyday lives. But rarely so crucially as in the key relationships we have with others – with the landlord we pay for shelter, the employer we rely on for more...
7 Aug 2018 09:36
Third-six pupillage vacancyWe have one vacancy for a third six pupil, commencing September or October 2018, with a view to tenancy. We are looking for a motivated, ambitious candidate who can demonstrate excellent intellectual ability, persuasive communication skills and a genuine interest in our areas of practice. The more...
Female employee wins £24,000 discrimination award
A female employee at DWP has been awarded £24,000 in compensation after she was discriminated against because of IVF treatment. In the case of Ginger v Department for Work and Pensions, the Employment Tribunal held that the DWP had discriminated against a female employee when a colleague asked her more...
13 Jun 2018 12:08
A plumber has won a legal battle for working rights in a Supreme Court ruling expected to have huge ramifications for freelance workers!In what is likely to be the leading authority on employment status for years to come, the Supreme Court today has dismissed the appeal of Pimlico Plumbers from the Court of Appeal decision that Mr Smith was a worker and not a self-employed contractor. Mr Smith is a plumber who carried out work for more...
Calling a spade a spade: Pimlico Plumbers, Mr Smith and the mystery of personal performance
Pimlico Plumbers Ltd & Mullins v Smith [2018] UKSC 29 In what is likely to be the leading authority on employment status for years to come, the Supreme Court today has dismissed the appeal of Pimlico Plumbers from the Court of Appeal decision that Mr Smith was a worker and not a self-employed more...
6 Jun 2018 10:42
Barristers Chambers in LondonLaw Lane Chambers is a modern, diverse, progressive and a rapidly-growing common law set based in the Capital with Barristers that specialises in Immigration, Civil, Commercial, Bankruptcy, Housing, Professional Negligence, Employment, Family and Criminal Law. For More Information on our chambers more...
Rulings Could Change Nature of UK "Gig" Economy
Crucial rulings affecting thousands of workers in the fast - growing "gig" economy will inevitably lead to more challenges by workers in this sector who seek workers' rights such as access to reasonable adjustments and holidays. To put things into context,no less than 60% of self-employed people more...
Tribunal Can Hear Evidence about "Protected Conversation" in an Unfair Dismissal Case
The idea of "protected conversations" is to allow employers to enter into off-the-record conversations with a view to agreeing the exit of an employee. The "protected conversation" policy was introduced under s.111A of the Employment Rights Act 2013 and was a flagship policy of the Government's more...
20 Apr 2018 15:20
Stefan Liberadzki represents Employment Tribunal claimant who successfully establishes “employee” status for claim under the Equality ActThe Tribunal’s full judgment can be read here: EP v The Gym Limited In EP v The Gym Ltd, the Claimant (referred to here as ‘EP’) was engaged by a nationwide chain of low-cost 24-hour gyms as a “freelance personal trainer”. His claim for disability discrimination arises from the Respondent’s more...
Washing Machines, Oil Rigs and Waste – Health & Safety Investigations and Enforcement Update – Spring 2018
The new year has begun with three important appeal decisions that will be of particular interest to anyone practising in Health and Safety (“H&S”) law. They cover subjects as wide ranging as sentencing, enforcement notices and litigation privilege that are also relevant to a much wider spectrum of more...
19 Feb 2018 17:32
When Wrongful isn’t Necessarily UnfairWhen Wrongful isn’t Necessarily Unfair Unfair dismissal claims? We’ve all done a million of them. Maybe not that many but I am simply applying the same exaggeration that goes onto most Claimant’s schedules of loss. The Claimant wants to go into the nuts and bolts of the claim and to prove that he more...
TUPE Review 2017
TUPE Review 2017 Introduction This is a brief round-up of reported TUPE cases from 2017 – perhaps not the most exciting year for TUPE enthusiasts. From my point of view, the most interesting cases are Born London Ltd v Spire (from March, dealing with provision of information); Tees Esk and Wear more...
Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017
Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 The GPG Regulations came into force on 6 April 2017. They apply to large private and voluntary sector employers (defined as those with 250 or more employees on 5 April of each year). Because of the Regulations, employers now have to more...
Grandparental Leave
Grandparental Leave In 2016 the government announced plans to extend shared parental leave and pay to working grandparents by 2018. Apparently a consultation was initially proposed for May 2016, and was also expected to cover options for streamlining the Shared Parental Leave and Pay system, more...
Employment Tribunals - Already creaking at the seams?
Following the Supreme Court judgment in July of last year in the Unison case it was only a matter of time before we returned to the previous state of a system in disaray. Notwithstanding the continuing impact of an unlawful imposition of fees we on the Northern Cicuit are now starting to have more...
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