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Interference With Lawyers
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers have created a petition in support of all human rights lawyers in the wake of the attempts to...

Robert Spicer
Mar 11, 20152 min read
Key Employment Law Changes In April 2015
From 5th April 2015, the following key increases will be implemented; • Limit on basic award’s week pay (redundancy and unfair dismissal) ...

Robert Spicer
Mar 10, 20151 min read
Steelworks Health And Safety Disasters
Some employers appear more than once in recently reported health and safety prosecutions. For example: Corus (UK) Ltd, the steelmaking...

Robert Spicer
Mar 8, 20154 min read
Individual Human Rights: What’s Wrong?
Individual and collective human rights For an ex-miner in Blaenau Gwent, suffering from a terminal lung disease, who develops a raging...

Robert Spicer
Mar 2, 20152 min read
The Exorbitant Price Of Law Books
Law books are almost always prohibitively expensive. Some titles, costing hundreds of pounds, are marketed as “essential” texts. They...

Robert Spicer
Feb 23, 20153 min read
Tata Steel: Serious Molten Metal Burns: Massive Fine
Molten metal burns: £200,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Tata Steel Ltd (2015) Swansea Crown Court, February 16 Tata Steel Ltd has...

Robert Spicer
Feb 21, 20151 min read
‘eBay’-style Court Resolution Proposed
Earlier this week, the civil justice council released a report proposing an online court system for dealing with claims up to £25,000....

Robert Spicer
Feb 18, 20152 min read
91-year Old Jailed For 9 Years: What’s The Point?
The news that a 91-year old former PE teacher has been jailed for 9 years for sexually abusing schoolboys raises a number of points: 1....

Robert Spicer
Feb 16, 20151 min read
Employment Tribunal Fees: Sex Discrimination: High Court Decision
SEX DISCRIMINATION Employment tribunal fees Case R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor (No.2) [2015] IRLR 99, High Court...

Robert Spicer
Feb 11, 20151 min read
Benefit Fraud And Tax Avoidance
Benefit Fraud From time to time, civil servants enforcing welfare benefit rules proudly announce that they have uncovered widespread...

Robert Spicer
Feb 9, 20151 min read
Death fall: company and subcontractors finedHealth and Safety Executive v Alumet Renewable Technol
Death fall: company and subcontractors fined Health and Safety Executive v Alumet Renewable Technologies Ltd, Midlands Solar Solutions...

Robert Spicer
Feb 8, 20151 min read
Raul Castro’s Speech To CELAC Summit
Extracts highly relevant to lawyers include: * The is little that many industrial nations can show our region since half their youths are...

Robert Spicer
Feb 4, 20151 min read
Offshore Death: Health And Safety Prosecution
Offshore death: £100,000 fine Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service v Bilfinger Salamis UK Ltd (2015) Aberdeen Sheriff Court,...

Robert Spicer
Feb 2, 20151 min read
Gloucestershire (Cinderford) Construction Site Welfare And Safety Prosecution
Construction site welfare and safety standards: £13,000 fines Health and Safety Executive v Keith Bell and KW Bell Group Ltd (2014)...

Robert Spicer
Jan 28, 20151 min read
Care Home Death: £100,000 Fine
Health and Safety Executive v Western Park Leicester Ltd (2014) Leicester Crown Court, January 23. A company which owns a care home in...

Robert Spicer
Jan 25, 20151 min read
Severed Arm: Circular Saw: Health And Safety Prosecution
Health and Safety Executive v Stagecraft Display Ltd (2014) Llandrindod Wells magistrates’ court, January 21. Stagecraft Display Ltd has...

Robert Spicer
Jan 20, 20151 min read
Legality Of Children’s Parties
Yesterday, it was widely reported that a five year old boy had been sent an invoice for £15.95 for missing his friend’s birthday party....

Robert Spicer
Jan 19, 20151 min read
Freedom Of Expression: You Must Be Joking
One of the more depressing consequences of the Charlie Hebdo massacre is the assertion by French, and some English politicians, that...

Robert Spicer
Jan 16, 20151 min read
“On The Buses”: London Bus Drivers’ Strike
Bus drivers in London are today (13th January 2015) participating in a 24-hour strike over pay and conditions. Members of the Unite union...

Robert Spicer
Jan 12, 20151 min read
New Poll Into Employment Tribunal Fees: It’s Worse Than We Thought
And so we begin 2015 with news that every employment lawyer already knows – the employment tribunal fees are putting off potential...

Robert Spicer
Jan 5, 20152 min read
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