Obviously all the parties’ manifestos will contain long lists of items many of which could end up as legislation. I want to focus though on some of the “pledges” that are of particular legal interest or significance. Starting with Labour’s […]

It’s not often health and safety law is big news – but it has been in Australia this month, as a result of the judgment of the High Court of Australia in the Kirk case.

Graeme Kirk was director […]

On Wednesday I wrote about the Nadia Eweida case at Comment is Free.

My line’s a compromise one, I think: my starting point is a secularist one, but I’m not insisting on the workspace being absolutely non-religious. I doubt that’s […]

Now and again you hear the opinion expressed that anti-discrimination law is a lot of unnecessary over-regulation and red tape dreamt up single-handedly by that awful Harriet Harman and imposed on a business world that always looks for the best […]

I must record that Lillian Ladele has lost her appeal in the religious discrimination case she brought against her employer, Islington Council, some time ago. She’s the registrar who, having been designated a civil partnerships registrar, refused to carry […]

For many years Eurosceptic Conservatives have wanted the UK to be “opted out” of EU social legislation – John Major negotiated an opt-out from the “social chapter” at Maastricht (though he seemed to get no thanks for that from his […]

They’re still at it. Suzy Gale, wife of the Conservative MP Roger Gale, says

I have taken advice from an employment lawyer and if this goes ahead I will be taking legal action for unfair dismissal or positive [sic] discrimination […]

We’re getting used by now to MPs moaning that the sensible expenses rules now being applied to them are supposedly unlawful. The latest claim is that preventing MPs from employing spouses and relatives would lead to unfair dismissal, […]

Having written about asylum detention yesterday, an interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment caught my eye today. Father Seraphim Vänttinen-Newton, a Russian Orthodox priest, has won his appeal for unfair dismissal against GEO Group, the private firm that runs Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre (or "removal centre", as the UK Borders Agency website calls it).

Last week’s Court of Appeal judgment in Metrobus v UNITE must make frustrating reading for the union’s officials: it upholds King J’s grant of an injunction preventing bus drivers from striking in Croydon, Crawley and Orpington last […]