Death of care home resident: company fined £450,000 Health and Safety Executive v Caring Homes Healthcare Group Ltd (2017) Guildford...

Leading cases on this issue include the following: Fairchild and Others v Glenhaven Funeral Services and Others (200) The Times, 21 June,...

Significant cases on alcohol and drug abuse and health and safety at work include the following: Armed forces: drunkenness: employer’s...

Appeals from the Employment Tribunal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) can only be brought on a point of law. Appeals to the EAT...

ET1 Completion of the ET1 form is not particularly difficult, but care must be taken. Details of the claim can be set out in a separate...

ET hearings are generally recognised as being stressful and unpredictable, particularly for unrepresented claimants. In practice,...

Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910) Tolstoy has been described as a writer, aesthetic philosopher, moralist and mystic, the...

The current health crisis has resulted in mass dismissals for alleged redundancies. It is not unknown for employers to get rid of workers...

The key to understanding the English civil justice system including ET proceedings, is the central role of money. Almost every aspect of...

Most claims settle before they come to a hearing. Settlement avoids the stress, inconvenience and expense of a hearing and achieves the...

Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 (HSWA), in summary, requires employers to conduct their undertaking in a way...

BREACH OF CONTRACT It has been reported that lawyers acting for employers are already preparing defences of frustration of contract...

The basic limitation period for ET claims is 3 months from the effective date of termination of employment (EDT). This is normally...

COSTS Costs are not automatically awarded in the ET against a losing party. The tribunal may award costs where it is satisfied that a...

If you think that you have been badly treated at work, for example by being dismissed, made redundant or subject to discrimination, the...

Employment tribunals (ET) were created as industrial tribunals by the Industrial Training Act 1964. Industrial tribunals were judicial...

It may appear to outsiders to be bizarre that the main aim of English civil procedure is to avoid litigation. A legal system has become...

It may appear to outsiders to be bizarre that the main aim of English civil procedure is to avoid litigation. A legal system has become...

Albie Sachs and Joan Hoff Wilson, Sexism and the Law:A study of male beliefs and judicial bias This book, published in 1978, documented...

For an ex-miner in Blaenau Gwent, suffering from a terminal lung disease, who develops a raging toothache, and cannot afford dentistry,...