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New Employment Law Cases

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION Sunday working Proportionate means of achieving legitimate aim Case Mba v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London...

New Health And Safety Prosecutions

Unguarded machinery: £8000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Eccleshall Developments Ltd (2013) Sheffield magistrates’ court, December...

New Case On Psychiatric Injury

Psychiatric injury Causation Application of Johnson v Unisys Case Monk v Cann Hall Primary School and Essex County Council [2014] PIQR...

Psychiatric Injury at Work

Psychiatric injury Robbery of betting shop Case Nicholls v Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Ltd [2014] PIQR P4, CA Statute reference ...

New Disability Discrimination Cases

Scepticism as to back pain Case Hemati v Sportec (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) and another (2013) Eq Opp Rev 242:30, Watford ET Facts H...

Work Equipment

Work equipment Reasonable foreseeability Case Hide v The Steeplechase Company (Cheltenham) Ltd and others [2013] EWCA Civ 545...

Vulnerable Witnesses

Witnesses Vulnerability Case Duffy v George [2013] EWCA Civ 908 Facts D was accused of sexual harassment by Ms G, a colleague. She...

Gross Misconduct

Gross misconduct Reasonable response Case Brito-Babapulle v Ealing Hospital NHS Trust (2013) Morning Star, September 27, EAT Facts...

Crackdown on Benefit Cheats

It was reported yesterday (September 16) that “benefit cheats” could face up to 10 years in prison as part of the Crown Prosecution...

Political prisoners

Huey Newton distinguished two types of political prisoner. First, the great majority, he described as “illegitimate capitalists”. These...

Police death fines

Police death: firearms officer and police force fined Health and Safety Executive v Greater Manchester Police and another (2013)...

New Squatting Law

New Squatting Law Squatting is generally defined as entering land or a building as a trespasser and living there, or intending to live...

Crimewatch

Crimewatch:an exemplar of the spectacle of class justice The crimes presented in the Crimewatch television programme by glamorous...

Mine Death

Mine death: £568,000 fines and costs Health and Safety Executive v UK Coal Ltd and Joy Mining Machinery Ltd (2012) Leeds Crown Court,...

Health and Safety Prosecution

Death of steelworker: £500,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Tata Steels UK Ltd (2012) Swansea Crown Court, August 3. Tata Steels UK...

Care Home Death Prosecution

Death in care home: £160,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v New Century Care Ltd (2012) Leeds Crown Court, September 10. New Century...

Bovine TB and the Badger Cull

Later today (11th September 2012), a rally will be held at College Green, Bristol against the planned badger cull. With Queen guitarist,...

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