Employment E-Alerts
Employment E-Alerts
- Practice and Procedure: ET1: valid presentation by fax (20th January 2012)
- Practice and Procedure: adjournment: guiding principles (16th January 2012)
- Pension Loss: ET's Guidance "Compensation for Loss of Pension Rights": substantial or simplified approach (11th January 2012)
- Practice and Procedure: private or public hearing: admissability of without prejudice discussions (9th January 2012)
- TUPE: Service Provision Change: principles of regs 3(1)(b) and 3(3) (5th January 2012)
- Practice and Procedure: Unless Order: Review of Sanction (3rd January 2012)
- Whistleblowing: causation; vicarious liability (26th October 2011)
- TUPE: reason for variation of contract based on a mistake: transfer or connected to transfer (18th October 2011)
- Employee/worker/independent contractor: s.230 ERA (14th October 2011)
- Practice: staying proceedings in the ET when High Court claim proposed (13th October 2011)
- Practice and procedure: rule 49: anonymising judgment and record: articles 8 and 10 (30th September 2011)
- Striking Out: whistleblowing claim: where fact sensitive (23rd September 2011)
- PIDA: retirement age: compensation period (16th September 2011)
- Unless Orders: non-compliance: judgment entered: review (9th September 2011)
- Wasted Costs: guidance from Underhill P (2nd September 2011)
- Minimum Wage: sleeping on premises: work (26th August 2011)
- Working Time: holiday pay: carry forward to new year due to sickness absence: payment in lieu on cessor of employment (16th August 2011)
- Worker: purposive approach to construing agreements (3rd August 2011)
- Compensation: Polkey reduction: obligation to consider where evidence exists (15th July 2011)
- Disability discrimination: understanding section 4(3)(b) (30th June 2011)
- TUPE: interpretation of reg 5: preliminary ruling being sought from ECJ (17th June 2011)
- Practice and Procedure: Costs: Wasted Costs: "pursuit of profit" (10th June 2011)
- Discrimination: apportioning compensation between respondents: joint and several liability (2nd June 2011)
- Costs: wasted costs: lack of preparation (29th May 2011)
- Practice and procedure: seeking an oral hearing following rejection in the sift; adducing fresh evidence (24th May 2011)
- Compensatory Award: additional sum for delay in receipt of past loss of earnings? Also, costs arising from representative's conduct (11th May 2011)
- Practice: clarifying issues with the tribunal: ensuring the evidence is before the tribunal (8th April 2011)
- Judicial proceedings immunity: bar to litigation arising from proceedings (30th March 2011)
- Practice and procedure: submitting claim 1 day late: advice of solicitor: uncorrected misapprehension of employee as to date uncorrected by employer (25th March 2011)
- Practice and procedure: default judgment: application to set aside: application for extension of time; principles to be applied on application (18th March 2011)
- Unfair dismissal: redundancy following TUPE transfer: approach of Tribunal to employer's system of selection (10th March 2011)
- Unfair dismissal: band of reasonable responses: inappropriate remarks by employee (11th February 2011)
- Section 98(4) ERA: whose mind is that of an employer; Burchell situation (4th February 2011)
- Discrimination: volunteers; direct effect - Kucukdeveci (28th January 2011)
- Discrimination: harassment: liability where discrimination originated with 3rd party (21st January 2011)
- Discrimination: sexual orientation: constructive dismissal (17th January 2011)
- Bias: the risks of judicial comment before all the evidence has been heard (22nd December 2010)
- Discrimination: victimisation: "reason why": complaint, manner of complaint or separable circumstance from complaint (18th December 2010)
- Practice and procedure: jurisdiction; reading of witness statements (10th December 2010)
- TUPE: week's pay: not s.227 ERA capped but uncapped (2nd December 2010)
- Practice and procedure: discrimination: adding a party (30th November 2010)
- Discrimination: Evidence: admissability; Procedure: sample issues (26th November 2010)
- Age Discrimination: justification: legitimate aim: saving of cost (21st November 2010)
- Practice and procedure: striking out: no reasonable prospect of success: failure to progress claims (18th November 2010)
- Age discrimination: job advertisements: claimant's intention in relation to job: costs risk where there is no intention to take job (12th November 2010)
- Practice: new exception to 'without prejudice' rule (5th November 2010)
- Practice and procedure: reasonable practicability: extension of time: solicitor's omission: incapacity of claimant (4th November 2010)
- Protective award: failure to consult/inform ss. 188, 189 TULR(C)A (28th October 2010)
- Unfair dismissal/wrongful dismissal: when is not the former but it is the latter (22nd October 2010)
- Statutory Interpretation: effective date of termination: when the employee learns they have been dismissed (14th October 2010)
- Disciplinary practice: frame charges specifically (8th October 2010)
- Practice and procedure: appeals: separate notices for each judgment or order being appealed (30th September 2010)
Latest News
- CPS Panels (20th January 2012)
- First Direct Access Criminal Case (19th January 2012)
- Paul Greaney QC acts on behalf of the Football Association in the Luis Suarez case (3rd January 2012)
- Park Court tenant secures dismissal of murder allegation (11th November 2011)
- West Yorkshire Panel for Legal Services (3rd August 2011)
- Summer Party (3rd August 2011)
- Leeds Credit Union (3rd August 2011)
- General Medical Council (3rd August 2011)
- New Chief Executive (3rd August 2011)
- Adam Birkby secures acquittal of Newcastle United Captain (15th April 2011)
- 6 members of chambers appointed to the Equality & Human Rights Commission panel for counsel (11th January 2011)
- Chambers & Partners UK 2011 - Park Court Chambers rankings (9th November 2010)
- Sam Green, Catherine Knowles and James Normington appointed to Regional Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (8th November 2010)
- Afshan Nadeem joins Park Court from Palmyra Chambers (1st November 2010)
- Park Court Chambers wins the McCormicks Quiz for the second year (11th October 2010)
- Election of Head and Deputy Head of Chambers (5th October 2010)
- Kirsten Mercer wins the Louise Godfrey Memorial Moot 2010 (15th September 2010)
- Jo Pickersgill takes part in the Great Yorkshire Run in aid of the Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation (10th September 2010)
- Legal 500 2010 - Recommendations (8th September 2010)
- Kirsten Mercer successfully completes pupillage (1st September 2010)
- Park Court Chambers nominated for Chambers Bar Awards - Regional Set (24th August 2010)
- Discrimination Law Review by Ceri Widdett (14th May 2010)
- Article in Archbold by Simon Jackson QC: "Defining the terms "Employer/Employee in the Context of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 (14th May 2010)
- Steven White represents Leeds Solicitor in successful sex discrimination challenge to redundancy termination (14th May 2010)
- Laurence Saffer appointed Judge of the First-tier Tribunal on the Health Education and Social Care Chamber(26th April 2010)
- Simon Phillips QC joins Simon Bourne-Arton and Tom Bayliss on the SFO Queen's Counsel List (9th April 2010)
- Simon Phillips and Paul Greaney appointed Queens Counsel (23rd March 2010)
- Simon Anderson joins Park Court Chambers from 15th February 2010 (28th January 2010)
- Simon Bourne-Arton and Tom Bayliss appointed to the SFO Queen's Counsel List (13th January 2010)
- Tart-athon held at Park Court Chambers - £615 raised for charity (24th November 2009)
- Paul Greaney named as junior crime barrister of the year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2009. Click here to see him accept his award from Robert Smith QC (Head of Chambers) and Jo Pickersgill (Senior Clerk)(16th November 2009)
- Park Court Chambers takes the prize in the McCormicks Halloween Quiz (2nd November 2009)
- David Young and Dapinder Singh joins Park Court Chambers as Associate Tenants (9th October 2009)
- Stephen Uttley secures acquittal of professional rugby league player (9th October 2009)
- Paul Greaney named as Criminal Law Junior of the Year at Chambers Bar Awards 2009 (2nd October 2009)
- Park Court Chambers sponsors the Niche Law Firm Award at the Yorkshire Lawyer Awards 2009 (1st October 2009)
Events
Employment Seminar Programme 2011
Please click here to see the programme of employment seminars for 2011.
Family Seminar Programme 2011
Please click here to see the programme of family seminars for 2011. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR DUE TO TAKE PLACE ON 18TH OCTOBER 2011 HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Should you wish to book a place on any of the above seminars please contact Karen Wade, Chambers Administrator by email at karen@parkcourtchambers.co.uk or tel 0113 203 5506.
