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Assault after Christmas Party
Assault after Christmas Party Case Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd [2017] IRLR 124, High Court Facts B, an employee of N, went to...

Robert Spicer
Feb 9, 20171 min read
Torture is illegal and non-negotiable in all civilised contries except one
The torture “debate” A recent, sinister development in the human rights industry has been the preparedness of mainly American, but also...

Robert Spicer
Jan 27, 20175 min read
Easyjet: breastfeeding facilities: sex discrimination
The recent Bristol employment tribunal decision in the case of McFarlane and Ambacher v Easyjet Airline Co Ltd has given guidance on the...

Robert Spicer
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Advocacy monopoly: Levellers wanted it abolished
The advocacy monopoly The monopoly over advocacy and the conduct of litigation is central to the powers and privileges of the legal...

Robert Spicer
Jan 8, 20171 min read
Private property in Cuba
The revolution resulted in a fundamental change in property relations. All means of production were nationalised. Landlords were...

Robert Spicer
Jan 3, 20171 min read
Pro bono initiatives: old textbooks for the underdeveloped world: serious theoretical issues
Pro bono initiatives Old books for the third world The organised distribution of secondhand law books to sub-Saharan Africa, the poorer...

Robert Spicer
Jan 1, 20172 min read
Comparative health and safety in a war context
Comparative health and safety in a war context Reports of health and safety prosecutions cover, with depressing regularity, incidents...

Robert Spicer
Dec 29, 20161 min read
Welfare rights workers: help people to organise to fight back for themselves
Positive proposals for welfare rights workers Such workers should devote much more of their time and energy to organising self-help,...

Robert Spicer
Dec 21, 20162 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
Dec 20, 20163 min read
Litigants in person: specimen opening statement for unrepresented client
Specimen opening statement for an unrepresented client Ask the court or tribunal for permission to make a brief opening statement....

Robert Spicer
Dec 20, 20163 min read
Work experience teenager seriously injured: Radwell International Ltd fined £86,000
Work experience injury: £86,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Radwell International Ltd (2016) Stafford Crown Court, December 2...

Robert Spicer
Dec 18, 20161 min read
Bathurst Mews basement excavation: serious safety breaches: two companies fined
Basement excavation: serious safety breaches: companies fined Health and Safety Executive v Lifehouse (London) Ltd and Nu Space (Design)...

Robert Spicer
Dec 15, 20161 min read
Death of worker on Putney construction site: three companies prosecuted
Construction companies fined after death of worker Health and Safety Executive v St James Group Ltd, Mitchellson Formwork and Civil...

Robert Spicer
Dec 14, 20161 min read
Farm death of 11 year old: drunk tractor driver: prison sentence
Farm death: drunk tractor driver: prison sentence Health and Safety Executive v Gary Green (2016) Leeds Crown Court, December 13...

Robert Spicer
Dec 13, 20161 min read
Fairground death of worker on Twister ride: £47,000 fine
Fairground death: £47,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Stevens Amusements Ltd (2016) Northampton Crown Court, December 5 Statutory...

Robert Spicer
Dec 12, 20161 min read
Death on public footpath by trampling from cows:farmer given suspended sentence
Death and injury from cows: suspended sentence for farmer Health and Safety Executive v Brian Godwin (2016) Swindon Crown Court, December...

Robert Spicer
Dec 11, 20161 min read
Disability discrimination: cancer and depression: £15,000 for injury to feelings
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Harassment Case Harris v John (2016) Eq Opp Rev 272:28, Bristol ET Facts Ms H was disabled by reason of breast...

Robert Spicer
Nov 28, 20161 min read
Fidel Castro and social and economic human rights
Fidel Castro: revolutionary hero or tyrannical dictator It is clear that Castro was a supreme guerrilla fighter who led the overthrow of...

Robert Spicer
Nov 27, 20161 min read
Disability discrimination: dyslexia: failure to understand needs of employee
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Failure to understand needs of dyslexic employee Case Sangha v Chemicare UK Ltd (2016) Eq Opp Rev 272:26,...

Robert Spicer
Nov 27, 20161 min read
Race discrimination: Nigerian national: employer’s failure to understand documentation
RACE DISCRIMINATION Home Office checks of Nigerian employee Case Olatinwo v Qualitycourse Ltd (2016) Eq Opp Rev 272:25, East London ET...

Robert Spicer
Nov 26, 20161 min read
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