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Civil way: 3 April 2015

02 April 2015
Issue: 7647 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Employment tribunal limits up; Latest credit hire ruling; Pleading diarrhoea; New CoP rules & CPR latest update

ON—AND OFF—THE JOB

The annual RPI tweak of employment tribunal award limits will impact on post-5 April 2015 axings where the employee can afford to make a claim. As employment tribunal judges and their deputies contemplate taking their knitting to work with a circa 80% drop in business and the renaming of their bases to unemployment tribunals, the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2015 (SI 2015/226) raises the limits by 2.3%. For the unfair dismissal compensatory award, for example, this means a new ceiling of £78,335 and the cuddly one week’s pay panning out at £475. And for employment anoraks, the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunals Fees (Amendment) Order 2015 (SI 2015/414) which swept into force on 25 March 2015 clarifies that an employer’s contract counterclaim fee is to be charged as a type A and not a type B.

The ACAS code of practice on disciplinary procedures has been revised as from 11 March

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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