M25 construction death: company and bulldozer operator fined Health and Safety Executive v J McArdle Contracts Ltd and Stephen Blackmore...

Agriculture crushing death: £67,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Turfgrass Services International Ltd (2014) Hull Crown Court, July...

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Reasonable adjustments Case Griffiths v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2014) Eq Opp Rev 249:31...

SEX DISCRIMINATION Compensation Case Austin v West Sussex County Council (2014) Eq Opp Rev 249:15, Havant ET Facts Labelling a...

Yesterday (10/07/2014) , the Coalition Government announced emergency surveillance laws would be brought into force within days. The laws...

The money imperative of the English law business and its attendants is well-illustrated by the price of law books. Some areas of law are...

Cuba and human rights The Cuban Constitution of 1976 sets out all the rights recognised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and...

After 8 months of evidence and 2 weeks of deliberations, the phone hacking trial verdicts have been delivered. Of the two predominant...

Electric gate death: £60,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v John Glen (Installation Services) Ltd and Tremorfa Ltd (2014) Cardiff...

SEX DISCRIMINATION Promotion Case Williams v Ministry of Defence (2014) Eq Opp Rev 248:23, Birmingham ET Facts W was a group...

HEALTH AND SAFETY Duty of care Case Yates v National Trust [2014] PIQR P270, High Court Facts The National Trust contracted J to...

Earlier this month, the Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) published a report into the family migration income threshold, Pricing UK workers...

Extreme examples of individual human rights In James v United Kingdom (1986), a chartered surveyor, the Sixth Duke of Westminster, a...

HEALTH AND SAFETY Duty of care Case Morcom v Biddick [2014] EWCA Civ 182 Facts M, a professional handyman, an acquaintance of B,...

Chilcot Inquiry Before this Inquiry started its hearings, Public Interest Lawyers commented that the key issues should include the...

Health and Safety Executive v Pirbright Institute (2014) City of London magistrates’ court, April 30. Significant points of the case In...

Crushing death: £80,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Gerber Juice Company Ltd (2014) Newport Crown Court, May 16 Gerber Juice...

In May 2008 McDonalds was fined £17,000 after a young worker was scalded by hot oil. In February 2005 a seventeen-year old employee was...

The organised distribution of secondhand law books to sub-Saharan Africa, the poorer parts of Asia and the Caribbean has been hailed as a...

Yesterday (21st May 2014), the Supreme Court ruled that partners of a solicitors’ firm were protected by the whistle-blowing legislation,...