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The Post Office Horizon inquiry and the importance of impartial investigations
Posted: 10/05/2024
Anyone with even a passing interest in current events will have witnessed the evidence that has come out of the Post Office Horizon public inquiry with a degree of concern and astonishment. The inquiry is tasked with investigating the failures which resulted in multiple miscarriages of justice against sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses......>>
Yacht Management Company Ltd v Gordon – where does the Employment Tribunal have territorial jurisdiction?
Posted: 21/03/2024
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that it has territorial jurisdiction to hear claims brought by a seafarer, despite the fact that the seafarer’s employer did not carry out any business in the UK, and that she worked on a vessel that did not enter a UK port or UK waters at any time during her employment......>>
No collective bargaining rights for Deliveroo drivers
Posted: 21/11/2023
The Supreme Court has ruled today on the status of Deliveroo food delivery riders for the purposes of collective bargaining in the case of Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) [2023] UKSC 43. The court considered the factual matrix, which showed that: the contract between the riders and......>>
Bullying, harassment and discrimination management on superyachts
Posted: 02/08/2023
On 12 June 2023, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network published its Spotlight on Q1 2023. Notably, and perhaps worryingly, it showed that there had been a substantial quarter by quarter increased general trend in cases of abuse, bullying, harassment or discrimination (cases being up by almost 50 per cent) on ships......>>
Will the FIFA Football Agent Regulations reform the role of the football agent for the better?
Posted: 01/03/2023
The first stage of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations 2022 came into force on 9 January 2023. The regulations will ‘govern the occupation of football agents’ and represent a wide-ranging reform to the way in which agents will work in football. When fully implemented in October 2023, the most significant changes will be the re-introduction......>>
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: appetite for destruction
Posted: 13/02/2023
The government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is currently working its way through Parliament against a chorus of outrage from opposition parties and trade unions. While the government insists that the measures are necessary in the face of current waves of industrial action, the opponents argue that the bill tramples over......>>

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