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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include a reference to Frewer v Google UK Ltd and others, concerning orders for anonymisation and redaction.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on the development of the first-tier tribunal for Scotland.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Regulations clarify that reasonable notice must be given of the date of a preliminary hearing.
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- Type:
- Liveflo
Use this workflow to deal with the practical and legal issues involved in responding to an employment tribunal claim, including preparing the grounds of resistance.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
The employment tribunal rules of procedure are amended to address delays to claims being heard because of the increase in cases following the abolition of tribunal fees in 2017 and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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- Date:
- 25 October 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In Curless v Shell International Ltd, the Court of Appeal upheld the tribunal decision that an email that contained legal advice on how to avoid a discriminatory dismissal is protected by legal privilege because it was not advice to act in an "underhand or iniquitous way".
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- Date:
- 19 August 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In L v Q Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that the principle of open justice precludes an employment tribunal from accepting a claimant's request that its judgment not be published on the public register of tribunal decisions.
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- Date:
- 10 January 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In The British Council v Jeffery; Green v SIG Trading Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that whether or not an expatriate employee has sufficiently strong connections with Great Britain to come within the scope of British employment law is a question of fact, but that such an evaluation is a question of law.
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- Date:
- 24 August 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In X v Y Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an email containing legal advice on how to disguise a discriminatory dismissal as a redundancy is not protected by legal advice privilege and is admissible as evidence in a tribunal.
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- Date:
- 11 April 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Fleming v East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that covert recordings of the private deliberations of the disciplinary panel were admissible as evidence, except for any content covered by legal professional privilege.
