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dylanspicer4
Jan 17, 20233 min read
How To Succeed In Your Consumer Rights Query
Consumer rights queries can cause a lot of frustration, especially if you are struggling to engage with the company about the problem you...
Robert Spicer
Jan 27, 20221 min read
WHISTLEBLOWING
Automatic unfair dismissal Main or principal reason test Case Secure Care UK Ltd v Mott (2022) Morning Star, January 4, EAT Facts M was...
Robert Spicer
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Unfair dismissal: gross misconduct
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Gross misconduct Case Hope v British Medical Association EA-2021-000187-JOJ Facts H, an employee of BMA, brought a...
Robert Spicer
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Supreme Court: breach of embargo:contempt
SUPREME COURT Breach of embargo Contempt of court Case Attorney General v Crosland [2021] UKSC 15, Supreme Court Facts In May 2021...
Robert Spicer
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Disability discrimination: risk to health
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Risk to health Secondment opportunity Case Judd v Cabinet Office EA-2020-000468-AT Facts J, a disabled person...
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 24, 20216 min read
Julie E. Cohen, ‘Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism’ – Rev
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there...
Robert Spicer
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Employment tribunals procedure: new case
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS ET1 Form Amendment Case Marrufo v Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council [2020] UKEAT 0103/20/0312, Employment...
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 16, 20212 min read
Disability discrimination: reasonable adjustments
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Reasonable adjustments Objective assessment Case Thompson v Vale of Glamorgan Council (2021) Morning Star,...
Robert Spicer
Aug 12, 20214 min read
Welfare law in practice
Previously the poor were oppressed by the state, by landlords, by employers. Now they have to carry a powerful new burden on their...
Robert Spicer
Aug 7, 20212 min read
PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEF
Gender-critical beliefs Case Forstater v CGD Europe UKEAT/0105/20/JOJ Facts Ms F worked under a consultancy agreement as a researcher and...
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 31, 20214 min read
Miscarriages of justice: the latest and the worst?
Miscarriages of justice A miscarriage of justice can be defined as a failure of a court or judicial system to attain the ends of justice,...
Robert Spicer
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Money needed to practise as a barrister 2021
Money needed to practise as a barrister (2021) Fee for joining an Inn of Court (compulsory) : £100 Cost of Bar Practice Course...
Robert Spicer
Jul 24, 20215 min read
Crown immunity: a blot on the landscape of the English legal system
Crown immunity: a blot on the landscape of the English legal system The shadowy issue of Crown immunity is an ancient, obscure and...
Robert Spicer
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Health and safety and automatically unfair dismissal
UNFAIR DISMISSAL: Automatically unfair: Health and safety activities In the recent case of Sinclair v Trackwork Ltd, the Employment...
Robert Spicer
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Sex discrimination and maternity pay
SEX DISCRIMINATION Maternity leave and pay In the case of Commissioner of the City of London Police v Geldart, the Court of Appeal gave...
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
Jul 2, 20212 min read
ELF ‘N’ SAFETY: THE REALITY
Those who ridicule health and safety as “Elf ‘n’ Safety” and who argue for deregulation and a reduction in red tape, need to be aware of...
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