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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Recent speakers at ILS have included:

2008

Emma Burrows
TUPE - a practical view of some legal puzzles

John Cavanagh QC
The current Law on Equal Pay

David Craig
Latest Developments in Whistleblowing case law

Paul Epstein QC
Privilege and Prejudice

Professor Gwyneth Pitt
The Discrimination Law Review: Prospects of
Equality Law in Employment

Karon Monaghan QC
Developments in Discrimination Law

Michael Rubenstein
Key Cases for 2008: A preview

2007

• Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC FBA
  The Proposed Single Equality Bill: A Critical Review

• John Bowers QC
  The BNP cases: balancing the freedom from discrimination and the rights of free speech and association

• Professor David Lewis
  Seven Years Of Public Interest Disclosure Legislation In The Uk: What Have We Learned About How To Protect Whistleblowers?

• Jane McNeill QC
  Remedies for unfair dismissal – old problems and recent developments: uplifts, reductions, Polkey deductions and “best estimates”

• Camilla Palmer
  Mothers, Fathers, Carers and discrimination law

• Heather Williams QC
  What is Disability Discrimination? A consideration of recent case law.

2006

• Andrew Buchan
  Occupational Stress – is Hatton v. Sutherland still good law?

• Christopher Chapman
  Statutory Trade Union Recognition - the first five years

• Paul Goulding QC
  Breaking up is hard to do : some recent cases on employee competition

• John Hendy QC
  A Trade Union Freedom Bill 2006

• Pauline Hughes
  Key concepts in Disability Discrimination
  (PLEASE NOTE THAT PAULINE HUGHES WAS SPEAKING AND WRITING IN A PERSONAL CAPACITY)

• Tom Linden
  Equal Pay: Identifying the Underlying Principle

• Colm O’Cinneide
  Age Discrimination

• Michael Rubenstein
  Key Cases for 2006 : A preview (notes)
  Key Cases for 2006 : A preview (edited text of lecture)

2005

• Sue Ashtiany
  Collective Communication - Collective Consultation : The Employer Perspective

• Simon Auerbach
  TUPE : The new Regulations

• James Davies
  The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations : sweeping reform or stop-gap measure?

• Michael Ford
  Privacy at the workplace

• Professor Mark Freedland
  From the Contract of Employment to the Personal Work Contract

• Michael Jefferson
  Employment Legislation : just in force, soon to be in force and forthcoming

• Lisa Mayhew
  Working Time/Holidays

• Michael Rubenstein
  Key Cases for 2005

• Sarah Veale
  Your Voice at Work

2004

• Paper prepared for the Society’s evening meeting in December 2004 is available from the Society’s co-ordinator, Jean Hughes by e-mail request to ils@dial.pipex.com

• Peter Schofield and Richard Ascough
  Dispute Resolution – A Dog’s Dinner?
  Power Point presentation (490 kb)

• Antony White Q.C.
  Compensation for unfair dismissal after Dunnachie v. Kingston Upon Hull City Council [2004] 3 WLR 310

• Thomas Linden
  The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981; The UK Out of Step With Europe?

• Caspar Glyn
  Maximising Compensation for Claimants.
  Forum / Cause of Action Selection, Heads of Loss, Expert Evidence and Tax Avoidance Strategies

• Professor Sir Bob Hepple QC FBA
  Equality: A New Framework - Progress Report
  Recommendations in Equality: A New Framework- Report of the Independent Review of the Enforcement of UK Anti-Discrimination Legislation (Hart Publishing, 2000) by Bob Hepple QC, Mary Coussey and Tufyal Choudhury

• Dr Nick O’Brien (text of talk)
  'Accentuating the Positive': Disability Rights and the Idea of a Commission for Equality and Human Rights

• Dr Nick O’Brien (synopsis of talk)
  'Accentuating the Positive': Disability Rights and the Idea of a Commission for Equality and Human Rights

• Nicholas Randall and David Pollard
  Employment Law issues on changing pensions
  

• Stephen Cavalier
  TUPE: New Regulations And Recent Developments
  - outline/summary paper
  - full-text paper

• Christopher Chapman
  Employment Tribunal Reforms - An Integral Part Of Workplace Dispute Resolution Or An Economy Measure? Do They Achieve The Ideals Of Access To Justice, Fairness And Efficiency, And User-Friendly Public Service?

• James Goudie QC
  Contracting Out: Public Procurement, Tupe And Pensions

• Jim Moher
  Employment Law and Industrial Relations -  Too much Law, Too many Lawyers?

• Paul Killen
  Informing and Consulting Employees : the legal and practical implications of the new regulations
  
• Michael Rubenstein
  Key Cases for 2004 : A Preview

2003

• The Honourable Mr Justice Elias
  Trust & Confidence
  
• Brian Langstaff Q.C.
  Tort and Employment Law - Married, Just Good Friends, or Entirely Divorced?

• Barry Clarke
  The Territorial Scope of UK Employment Law

• Dr. Lucy Vickers
  Tolerance and intolerance: Religion, Sexual Orientation and Equality

• John Bowers QC:
  ILS Talk: Modern Industrial Action; the Shift in the Balance

• Malcolm Sargeant:
  Never too old to work. Age Discrimination in Employment

• Simon Auerbach:
  TUPE - the new Regulations

• Paul Goulding QC:
  Football, Facelifts and Frisbees - using Covenants
  and Confidence to stop employee competition

• Michael Rubenstein:
  Key Cases for 2003
  

• Camilla Palmer, Palmer Wade:
  Family friendly issues: The law - does it fit reality

2002

• John Monks, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress:
  Representation at work: The Role of Trade Unions and the role of the Law

• Christa Christensen, Bevan Ashford, Bristol:
  Res Judicata - Cause of action and issue estoppel for employment lawyers

• Andrew Hogarth, Barrister, 12 King's Bench Walk:
  Hatton and Sutherland - the stress free guide to stress claims?

• Professor Keith Ewing, King's College, London:
  Labour standards - the Wilson decision

• Brian Langstaff QC:
  Who is an employee - and who cares?

• Professor Pat Leighton, Jean Monnet  Professor, University of Glamorgan:
  Defining the employee and the genuinely self-employed.  Are we ever going to get these definitions right?

• Isabel Manley, UK Solicitor and Employment Tribunal Chairman & Sarah Christie, South Africa Attorney and Commissioner at CCMA:
  Soft Law or Rough Justice? : Employment Dispute Resolution for unfair dismissal in the UK and South Africa

• Professor Gwyneth J Pitt, Dean, Faculty of Business, Kingston University:
  The Employment Act : anti-worker, anti-employer or a balanced approach?

• David Pollard, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer & Nick Randall, Barrister, Devereux  Chambers:
  Pensions as a contractual right

• Michael Rubenstein:
  Key cases for 2002

• Tonia Novitz:
  International Principles and Domestic Pragmatism: Will the Employment Relations Act 1999 implement international labour standards?

2001

• Professor David Lewis, Middlesex University:
  Speaking out at the Workplace - the Role of Whistleblowing Procedures.

• Simon Auerbach, Partner, Pattinson & Brewer:
  Statutory recognition - the first fifteen months. Hope fulfilled or fears confirmed?

• Professor Brian Bercusson, King's College, University of London:
  Works Councils and employment/protection

• Nick Booth, Barrister, Old Square Chambers :
  DDA in 2001 : Over-Regulation or Under-protection?

• Prof Jon Clark, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Relations, University of Southampton and by Prof Roy Lewis, Barrister, Old Square Chambers:
  The Arbitral Alternative in Unfair Dismissal Cases : the ACAS Scheme

• Nicola Dandridge, Thompsons Solicitors and Director DDARAP :
  DDA: Over-Regulation or under-protection?

• Stephen Hughes, MEP :
  Basic Rights or Red Tape? Is there too much labour law or is more needed. Modern, adaptable, flexible workplaces - balancing flexibility for enterprises with security for workers.

• Emmanuell Kusemamuriwo Policy Adviser (Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity) The Equality Challenge Unit of Universities UK :
  The Race Relations Amendment Act 2000: An Employer's Perspective

• Geoffrey Mead, Partner and Head of Employment Law, Reed Smith Warner Cranston, London:
  TUPE : Have we got the balance right?

• Lindsey Nicoll:
  Part-time Working : Current Legal Issues

• Dr Jane Pillinger, Dublin :
  Work-Life Balance: Towards a new politics of work and time

2000

• Catherine Barnard:
  Facing up to Working Time

• Sir Michael Burton, Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee:
  The CAC - falla and fallacy

• K D Ewing, King's College, London:
  Employment Rights: Building on Fairness at Work

• Makbool Javaid:
  Human Rights Act 1998 - An Introduction

• Stephen Levinson, Partner KLegal:
  Fair's Fair - its a question of reasonableness. A workshop session on unfair dismissal

• Professor Gillian Morris, Professor of Law, Brunel University and Barrister, King's Bench Walk Chambers: The Human Rights Act 1998 and employment law: Some controversial issues

• E. Scouller:
  Valuing Women. The EOC's campaign on equal pay

• Melanie Tether, Barrister, Old Square Chambers:
  TUPE - same questions, new answers?

1999

• Stephen Cavalier, Employment Rights Unit, Thompsons, Solicitors:
  Selling workers down the river? The Amended Acquired Rights Directive

• Janet Gaymer, Solicitor, Simmons & Simmons:
  The right to know, the duty to consult - information, consultation and collective bargaining for the future

• Paul Goulding, Barrister, Blackstone Chambers:
  All bets are off - The future of Garden Leave after William Hill v Tucker

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