Robert Spicer
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...
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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...
Robert Spicer
Nov 27, 20212 min read
Google data protection case
SUPREME COURT Google data protection case Case Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 Facts The issue in the appeal was whether L could bring...
Robert Spicer
Nov 12, 20212 min read
Whistleblowing: protected disclosures: new cases
WHISTLEBLOWING Case Watson v Hilary Meredith Solicitors Ltd and another UKEAT/0092/20/BA Facts W made protected disclosures to his...
Robert Spicer
Nov 10, 20212 min read
Trade unions and collective bargaining: landmark Supreme Court decision
Collective agreement Direct offer by employer Case Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others [2021] UKSC 47, Supreme Court Facts D and 56 other...
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...
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 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 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...
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