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Robert Spicer
Nov 4, 20212 min read
More new employment cases: settlements and deductions from wages
SETTLEMENT Personal injury claim excluded Case Farnham-Oliver v RM Educational Resources Ltd [2021] EWHC 2418 Facts F was employed by R...
Anastasiia Tolmacheva
Oct 25, 20212 min read
Landmark Supreme Court case on compensation for accidents abroad
SUPREME COURT Foreign law Service out of jurisdiction Case FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 Facts In January 2010 Lady...
Robert Spicer
Oct 22, 20212 min read
More new employment cases
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Costs Case Ibezakio v York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Locum Placement Group Ltd EA 2019-000145-LA...
Robert Spicer
Oct 14, 20212 min read
New employment cases: package holidays and disability discrimination
CONTRACT Tour operators Package holiday contracts Case X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021] UKSC 34, Supreme Court Facts Ms X was on a package...
Anastasiia Tolmacheva
Sep 27, 20213 min read
GPT- 3 and how it can revolutionise the legal industry?
GPT-3 is a piece of software that can predict what the next word will be in the specific text. It can repeatedly do that, to the point...
Anastasiia Tolmacheva
Sep 20, 20213 min read
The DAO: Is it the end to the idea of using algorithmic authority to create a new form of sociality
Legal authority is a well-known “issue” in the cryptocurrency and block-chain world. For years, strong idealistic proponents of...
Anastasiia Tolmacheva
Sep 13, 20212 min read
DoNotPay and popular facial recognition tools
Legal tech company DoNotPay is best known for its army of “robot lawyers” — automated bots that tackle boringonline tasks like canceling...
Robert Spicer
Aug 27, 20211 min read
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS
Case management decision Access to documents Case Kular v Atos IT Services UK Ltd (2021) UKEAT 0101/20/2901, Employment Appeal Tribunal...
Robert Spicer
Aug 19, 20212 min read
Whistleblowing: more guidance
WHISTLEBLOWING Thought processes of dismissing officer Case University Hospital North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust v Fairhall...
Robert Spicer
Aug 6, 20211 min read
CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION: SUPREME COURT DECISION
Exclusion of modern slavery and trafficking where victims previously imprisoned Case R (A and another) v Criminal Injuries Compensation...
Robert Spicer
Jul 9, 20212 min read
PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEF
Gender-critical beliefs In the case of Forstater v CGD Europe, Ms F worked under a consultancy agreement as a researcher and writer with...
Robert Spicer
Jun 18, 20213 min read
EVICTION AND THE LAWYER
England’s coronavirus ban on evictions came to an end on May 32, 2021. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has reported that 400,000 private...
Robert Spicer
May 14, 20213 min read
RECENT EMPLOYMENT-RELATED CASES
DAMAGES Lost years of earnings Case Head v Culver Heating Co Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 34 Facts H was the managing director of EMSL, his own...
Robert Spicer
Apr 18, 20214 min read
More recent employment cases
RACE DISCRIMINATION Harassment Stale training Case Allay (UK) Ltd v Gehlen UKEAT/0031/20/AT Facts G, a man of Indian origin, was employed...
Robert Spicer
Apr 16, 20213 min read
Recent employment cases: age discrimination, employment tribunals, personal injury
AGE DISCRIMINATION New pension scheme Case London Fire Commissioner v Sargeant and others UKEAT/0137/17/LA Facts In 2015 a new pension...
Robert Spicer
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Covid-19: worker's refusal to wear face mask
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Refusal to wear face mask Case Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd (2021) 3201960/2020, East London Employment Tribunal Facts K...
Robert Spicer
Apr 6, 20214 min read
Recent Supreme Court decisions: British citizenship; equal pay; village greens
British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...
Robert Spicer
Mar 27, 20212 min read
Shrewsbury pickets convictions quashed
The Shrewsbury Pickets In the case of Warren and others v R [2021] EWCA Crim 413, Court of Appeal, the facts, in summary, were that all...
Robert Spicer
Mar 26, 20212 min read
CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER AND THE UK GOVERNMENT
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 created a new criminal offence of corporate manslaughter. The Act enables...
Robert Spicer
Mar 21, 20218 min read
CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER PROSECUTIONS
On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter...
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