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...
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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...
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...
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 17, 20213 min read
Four green cryptocurrencies to watch
Regulators, investors and the public are increasingly worried about the carbon footprint left by crypto mining activities. Searches for...
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
Jun 7, 20215 min read
Redundancy and disability discrimination
Disability Disabled workers may be selected for redundancy because of the employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments to allow for...
Robert Spicer
May 31, 20212 min read
Pregnancy, maternity and race discrimination and redundancy
Pregnancy/maternity dismissals Redundancy dismissal because of pregnancy or maternity is automatically unfair. No minimum qualifying...
Robert Spicer
May 17, 20215 min read
Redundancy and unfair dismissal: key cases
Elements of consultation Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey...
Robert Spicer
May 3, 20215 min read
REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS
Source: section 135, ERA: employee has basic right to redundancy payment Those excluded from payments: · Independent contractors · ...
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...
Robert Spicer
Mar 14, 20213 min read
Employment tribunal as a court
Employers’ insurers Further move to converting the employment tribunal to a court Case Watson v Hemingway Design Ltd (In Liquidation)...
Robert Spicer
Mar 7, 20213 min read
Personal protective equipment: suitability
Police removal of plants from cannabis factory; personal protective equipment. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992...
Robert Spicer
Mar 3, 20214 min read
Two bites of the cherry? Tribunal and court claims for workplace injury and diseases
Most civil claims for compensation for personal injury, and many employment tribunal claims, are settled by compromise agreements before...
Robert Spicer
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Shamima Begum: Supreme Court decision
British citizenship Deprivation decision Case R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and Others [2021]...
Robert Spicer
Feb 26, 20212 min read
Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell plc [2021] UKSC 3
The appeal to the Supreme Court concerned claims by 40,000 claimants in Nigeria. They alleged that they had suffered damage resulting...
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