Robert Spicer
Health and safety: Contributory Negligence
Employment lawyers in Clifton, Bristol, have compiled a database of leading cases dealing with contributory negligence in the context of...
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Robert Spicer
Jun 20, 20201 min read
BUPA fined £3million for care home legionnaires disease death
BUPA fined £3million following care home death [remove for online] Health and Safety Executive v BUPA Care Homes Ltd (2018) Ipswich Crown...
Robert Spicer
Jun 19, 20205 min read
Health and safety: contractors
Employment lawyers in Bristol, particularly those based in Clifton, have been concerned to keep up with developments in the law related...
Robert Spicer
Jun 18, 20201 min read
Death of worker from crushing in baling machine
Death in baling machine: £250,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v RRS London Waste Papers Ltd (2018) Westminster magistrates’ court,...
Robert Spicer
Jun 17, 20201 min read
Care home death: Company fined £450,000
Death of care home resident: company fined £450,000 Health and Safety Executive v Caring Homes Healthcare Group Ltd (2017) Guildford...
Robert Spicer
Jun 14, 20206 min read
Health and safety: asbestos
Leading cases on this issue include the following: Fairchild and Others v Glenhaven Funeral Services and Others (200) The Times, 21 June,...
Robert Spicer
Jun 7, 20203 min read
Health and Safety: alcohol and drugs
Significant cases on alcohol and drug abuse and health and safety at work include the following: Armed forces: drunkenness: employer’s...
Robert Spicer
Jun 2, 20202 min read
Employment Tribunal - Appeals
Appeals from the Employment Tribunal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) can only be brought on a point of law. Appeals to the EAT...
Robert Spicer
May 31, 20203 min read
Employment Tribunal - ET1
ET1 Completion of the ET1 form is not particularly difficult, but care must be taken. Details of the claim can be set out in a separate...
Robert Spicer
May 27, 20207 min read
Employment Tribunal: hearing and advocacy
ET hearings are generally recognised as being stressful and unpredictable, particularly for unrepresented claimants. In practice,...
Robert Spicer
May 22, 20203 min read
Tolstoy on law
Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910) Tolstoy has been described as a writer, aesthetic philosopher, moralist and mystic, the...
Robert Spicer
May 20, 20201 min read
Employment Tribunal: redundancy
The current health crisis has resulted in mass dismissals for alleged redundancies. It is not unknown for employers to get rid of workers...
Robert Spicer
May 18, 20202 min read
Employment Tribunal: money
The key to understanding the English civil justice system including ET proceedings, is the central role of money. Almost every aspect of...
Robert Spicer
May 16, 20205 min read
Employment Tribunal: settlements
Most claims settle before they come to a hearing. Settlement avoids the stress, inconvenience and expense of a hearing and achieves the...
Robert Spicer
May 14, 20202 min read
Health and Safety: non-employees
Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 (HSWA), in summary, requires employers to conduct their undertaking in a way...
Robert Spicer
May 13, 20202 min read
Covid -19 and breach of contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT It has been reported that lawyers acting for employers are already preparing defences of frustration of contract...
Robert Spicer
May 11, 20206 min read
Employment Tribunal: time limits
The basic limitation period for ET claims is 3 months from the effective date of termination of employment (EDT). This is normally...
Robert Spicer
May 8, 20205 min read
Employment Tribunal: Costs
COSTS Costs are not automatically awarded in the ET against a losing party. The tribunal may award costs where it is satisfied that a...
Robert Spicer
Apr 25, 20202 min read
Employment Tribunal: legal aspects and initial questions
If you think that you have been badly treated at work, for example by being dismissed, made redundant or subject to discrimination, the...
Robert Spicer
Apr 22, 20203 min read
Employment Tribunal: history and status
Employment tribunals (ET) were created as industrial tribunals by the Industrial Training Act 1964. Industrial tribunals were judicial...
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