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Identity cards existed from 1939 until 1952: what next?
Identity cards Without going into the details of the current arguments for and against identity cards, which may seem to have reached the...

Robert Spicer
Mar 15, 20171 min read
London Container (Tilbury) Ltd fined after worker suffers life-changing injuries
Container terminal fined £180,000 following serious injuries to worker Health and Safety Executive v London Container (Tilbury) Ltd...

Robert Spicer
Mar 13, 20171 min read
Stately home butler crushed to death by lift: £266,000 fine for employer
Lift crushing death: stately home operator fined £266,000 Health and Safety Executive v Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd (2017)...

Robert Spicer
Mar 12, 20171 min read
MOD agency driver killed: no prosecution: Crown Censure: rule of law? You speak in jest
Driver death: Ministry of Defence Crown Censure Statutory reference: ss. 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 (HSWA)....

Robert Spicer
Mar 11, 20172 min read
Chambers party (not ours) inappropriate conduct towards females: Bar Standards Board appeal
Bar Standards Board v Howd; Howd v Bar Standards Board [2017] EWHC 210 (Admin) Background A Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the...

Robert Spicer
Mar 7, 20174 min read
No win no fee: naive claimants beware
“No win no fee” “No win no fee”, in reality, is a grotesque over-simplification which reflects the naïve innocence of clients. It has...

Robert Spicer
Feb 27, 20171 min read
Workplace death from hydraulic cylinder: £800,000 fine
Death of worker: construction hire equipment hire company fined £800,000 Health and Safety Executive v AGD Equipment Ltd (2017) Warwick...

Robert Spicer
Feb 20, 20171 min read
Workplace forklift truck injury: suspended prison sentences
Forklift incident: serious injuries: suspended sentences for employers [remove for online] Health and Safety Executive v Maurice James...

Robert Spicer
Feb 19, 20171 min read
Workplace death fall
Fall death: £600,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Go Ahead London (2017) Southwark Crown Court, February 14 Statutory reference:...

Robert Spicer
Feb 18, 20171 min read
Unfair dismissal: issues not raised by claimant
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Issues not raised in claim form Case Perry’s Motor Sales Ltd v Edwards (2017) Morning Star, February 17, EAT Facts E was...

Robert Spicer
Feb 18, 20171 min read
Trade union purposes
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Automatically unfair Trade union purposes Case Metrolink RATPDEV v Morris UKEAT/0113/16/RN Facts M, a union...

Robert Spicer
Feb 12, 20171 min read
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
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
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