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...

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

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,...

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,...

The common law gave no health and safety protection for employees. The first Act intended to protect the welfare of people at work was...

Some lawyers who have made a reasonable living from the practice of English law have not embraced the legal system as a saviour or a...

I don’t give a shit about international law. (Thomas Foley, appointed in 2003 as head of private sector development in Iraq) At the heart...

Hospital death: £200,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (2014) Stafford Crown Court, April 28...

County court fees From April 22, 2014, fees for applications to the county court have increased significantly. The fees are assessed...

An employment tribunal may reconsider its judgment where it is in the interests of justice to do so. This power is set out in the...