District Judge Stephen Gold with an antidote to seasonal excess—new tribunals
LAWBITES
An extra 3.6% in the sack The annual retail prices index uplift in employment tribunal compensation limits means 3.6% more when the chop date is after 31 January 2007. The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2006 (SI 2006/3045) is there for a curse or blessing depending on which side of the work gates you stand. So, for example, the ceiling for the unfair dismissal compensatory award rises from £58,400 to £60,600 and a week’s pay, used to calculate redundancy payments, the unfair dismissal basic and elusive additional awards and the state’s liability to settle wages owed by an insolvent employer, is up from £290 to £310.
Minor money of major interest There may be an appreciable lapse of time
between acceptance by a claimant under disability of a payment into court and the court’s approval of that acceptance under CPR 21.10. In Brennan v Eco Composing Ltd and another [2006] EWHC 3143 (QB), [2006] All ER (D) 94 (Dec) it
