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In this month’s brief, Ian Smith pays tribute to a titan of industrial relations & applauds the brevity of judgments in days gone by

In days gone by, judges wrote shorter judgments, barrister Ian Smith, emeritus professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, UEA, writes in his latest employment law update for NLJ. Surely, they can’t have more time on their hands now?

The number of employees bringing claims to the employment tribunal has increased in the past year, the latest statistics show.

Job applicants are not protected as whistleblowers, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.

Calls to a legal helpline for whistleblowers are on the rise, with demand highest in the health and social work sectors and from those on lower incomes.

Is the law doing enough to protect employees from bullying & harassment? Thomas Beale examines recent reforms & considers what else is needed

A legal definition of ‘workplace bullying’ is urgently needed, Thomas Beale, partner and head of the bullying and harassment team at Bolt Burdon Kemp, writes in this week’s NLJ

A former Ofsted inspector sacked for brushing rain from a child’s head was unfairly dismissed, the Court of Appeal has held in a unanimous ruling

What happens where an employer thinks an employee has resigned but they haven’t? This is one of a trio of cases covered in this week’s NLJ employment law brief by Ian Smith, barrister, emeritus professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, UEA.

Good things come in threes: in this month’s employment brief, Ian Smith rounds up a triple whammy from the Employment Appeal Tribunal on crossed wires, application errors & misconduct

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Arc Pensions Law—Ian D’Costa

Pensions firm welcomes legal director in London

Shakespeare Martineau—Jonathan Warren

Real estate disputes team strengthened by London partner hire

Morgan Lewis—Christian Tuddenham

Litigation partner joins disputes team in London

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NLJ this week: AI, liberty & the digital cage

Government plans for offender ‘restriction zones’ risk creating ‘digital cages’ that blur punishment with surveillance, warns Henrietta Ronson, partner at Corker Binning, in this week's issue of NLJ

NLJ this week: Leasehold reform in limbo

Louise Uphill, senior associate at Moore Barlow LLP, dissects the faltering rollout of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Enforcement reform gets real

Judgments are ‘worthless without enforcement’, says HHJ Karen Walden-Smith, senior circuit judge and chair of the Civil Justice Council’s enforcement working group. In this week's NLJ, she breaks down the CJC’s April 2025 report, which identified systemic flaws and proposed 39 reforms, from modernising procedures to protecting vulnerable debtors

NLJ this week: Standish reshapes family & inheritance claims

Writing in NLJ this week, Katherine Harding and Charlotte Finley of Penningtons Manches Cooper examine Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26, the Supreme Court ruling that narrowed what counts as matrimonial property, and its potential impact upon claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

NLJ this week: Clearing Christine Keeler’s name

In this week's NLJ, Dr Jon Robins, editor of The Justice Gap and lecturer at Brighton University, reports on a campaign to posthumously exonerate Christine Keeler. 60 years after her perjury conviction, Keeler’s son Seymour Platt has petitioned the king to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy, arguing she was a victim of violence and moral hypocrisy, not deceit. Supported by Felicity Gerry KC, the dossier brands the conviction 'the ultimate in slut-shaming'

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Employment

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Ian D’Costa

Shakespeare Martineau—Jonathan Warren

Morgan Lewis—Christian Tuddenham