MANIFESTATION OF FAITH IN THE WORKPLACE

Professor Lucy Vickers, Professor of Law, Oxford Brookes University

September 16, 2017

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UNISON IN THE SUPREME COURT: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE NEGLECTED PUBLIC FUNCTION OF ET CLAIMANTS

Michael Ford QC, Old Square Chambers and Bristol University

September 16, 2017

In R(UNISON)) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 the Supreme Court upheld UNISON's challenge to the lawfulness of the Employment Tribunals and EAT Fees Order. Described by one commentator as the "the biggest single victory in the history of e...

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50 YEARS SINCE DECRIMINALISATION OF MALE GAY SEX

Andrew Allen, Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers

September 15, 2017

Andrew Allen provides a whistle-stop tour of the 60 years since the Wolfenden Report and 50 years since the partial de-criminalisation of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act permitting homosexual acts in private between 2 consenting adults who wer...

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GRIEVANCES DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD – WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?

Camilla Palmer, CEO, YESS

September 15, 2017

Take a common scenario – familiar to employment litigators. The employee raises a grievance, arguing all possible (sometimes impossible) legal points. The employer denies everything and is offended by an accusation of discrimination. The ...

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THEFT OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION BY EMPLOYEES

Meriel Schindler, Head of Employment, Withersworldwide LLP

September 15, 2017

In Marathon Asset Management LLP v Seddon & Others [2017] EWHC 300 (Comm), the High Court undertook a detailed analysis of financial relief available when employees take their employer’s confidential information in the context of a claim ...

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THINKING ABOUT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

Richard Martin, Director, byrne.dean

September 15, 2017

We are regularly asked “How are you?” but how often to we actually stop to take stock and answer the question truthfully, and, in respect of our mental health, do we know how to do so? And why are lawyers particularly at risk of mental ...

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WHISTLEBLOWING AFTER BEATT, DAY, JHUTI AND CHESTERON – ALL CLEAR NOW?

Martin Fodder and Jeremy Lewis, Littleton Chambers and Jack Mitchell, Old Square Chambers

September 15, 2017

How will the public interest requirement for protected disclosures be applied in the light of Chesterton? Where are we now on the issue of liability of the individuals who cause an employer to dismiss (Osipov; Jhuti) and what are the ramifi...

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HUMANS AS A SERVICE – WORK IN THE ‘GIG’ ECONOMY

Jeremias Prassl, Associate Professor in Law, Magdalen College, University of Oxford

May 20, 2017

Professor Jeremias Prassl’s talk addressed the rise of the ‘Sharing’, ‘Gig’ or ‘Uber’ Economy which is disrupting business models across the globe. The completion of ‘tasks’, ‘gigs’ or ‘rides’ in the (digital) crow...

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KEY CASES OF THE FUTURE

Darren Newman, employment law writer and trainer, consultant editor, XpertHR

May 20, 2017

In this session Darren will look at developing areas such as: Direct and indirect discrimination; Disability discrimination and the duty to make reasonable adjustments; The payment of wages for ‘on-call’ and ‘stand-by’ time; and The...

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THE FUTURE FOR EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Judge Brian Doyle Paper (2017 One Day Spring Conference)

May 20, 2017

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RECENT DECISIONS AND CURRENT CASES BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURTS

Michael Rubenstein

April 26, 2017

This talk briefly considered a number of employment and discrimination law decisions of interest over the last year or so from the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EFTA Court and the European Court of Human Rights. It also discus...

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NEVER MIND THE BALLOTS – THE GOVERNMENT’S INDUSTRIAL ACTION PROPOSALS

Tom Flanagan, Tom Flanagan Consulting

September 27, 2015

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TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR SIR BOB HEPPLE QC GIVEN A THE SOCIETY’S 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Saphieh Ashtiany

September 26, 2015

11 August 1934 – 20 August 2015 Bob was a towering figure. The South African Online History Project which records and celebrates great South Africans has an entry for him. The summary reads: Advocate, member of the Congress of Democ...

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WHISTLEBLOWING: HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN UNDER THE NEW LAW

Caspar Glyn QC, Cloisters

March 30, 2015

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TUPE 2014: GAME CHANGER OR NON-EVENT? THE NEW LEGISLATION AND RECENT CASE LAW

Shantha David, UNISON and Charles Wynn-Evans, Dechert LLP

November 4, 2014

Shantha David of UNISON and Charles Wynn-Evans of Dechert LLP reviewed the issues thrown up by the 2014 amendments to TUPE as well as some of the recent case law in this area and assessed how important in practice the changes to TUPE were a...

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