Robert Spicer
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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...
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 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 24, 20213 min read
UNFAIR REDUNDANCY DISMISSAL: MORE CASES
Agreed procedures Jackson v General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Co Ltd [1976] IRLR 338, EAT:The meaning of agreed procedure, relating...
Robert Spicer
May 22, 20217 min read
Unfair redundancy dismissal: more cases
Unfair selection · The employer is under a duty to choose a fair pool from which to select redundant workers. Fulcrum Pharma...
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 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
May 14, 20214 min read
REDUNDANCY: AN OUTLINE OF LAW AND PRACTICE
SECTION 1 Redundancy, like much of employment law, is an increasingly complex concept. Its legal definition often bears little...
Robert Spicer
May 14, 20216 min read
UNFAIR REDUNDANCY DISMISSAL
· Automatically unfair dismissal for specified reasons · No genuine redundancy situation · Failure to consult · ...
Robert Spicer
May 10, 20212 min read
More redundancy law and practice
SHORT-TERM WORK & LAY-OFFS Temporary Lay-Offs Workers can claim statutory redundancy pay that they are eligible for and have been...
Robert Spicer
May 7, 20214 min read
More redundancy law and practice
Suitable Alternative Employment Unreasonable refusal of suitable alternative employment results in loss of statutory redundancy pay. S....
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 30, 20216 min read
Redundancy law and practice section 2: definition
Closure of the workplace · An employee is dismissed for redundancy if it is attributable wholly or mainly to the fact that the...
Robert Spicer
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Fascism and the law
The use of the word “fascism” has become so debased that it is now virtually meaningless. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines...
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