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Civil way: 1 April 2022

01 April 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7973 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Employment compensation hike; Dentists extracted; Tribunal tinkering; Flexible tenancy escape; New divorce law latest; Standard orders – again! Up the workers.

SACK RATES BEAT NS&I

Praise be to the annual review of employment tribunal awards for, apart from doing a favour to the aggrieved worker, it gives me something to write about. Link that to the annual publication of At a Glance and persuade Oxford University Press to bring out the Judicial College’s personal injury guidelines more regularly and I could cease having to read any law reports. This time around, we get an RPI increase of a stonking 4.9% as against last year’s 1.1% where the axe falls (more felicitously known as the appropriate date) on or after 6 April 2022. The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2022 (SI 2022/182) raises the limit of one week’s pay—used for the calculation of the basic and additional unfair dismissal awards and redundancy payments—from £544 to £571. The unfair dismissal compensatory award ceiling increases by a handsome £4,385 to £93,878.


IT’S MY

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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