Employment

As a matter of domestic law, members of local authority park police forces were employed in ‘police service’ and thus prevented by the Employment Rights Act 1996 s 200 from pursuing claims for unfair dismissal. Their trade unions, the third appellants, could however bring claims for a protective award in respect of an alleged failure in collective consultation under the provisions of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 s 280, construed so as to give effect to rights under the European Convention on Human Rights Art 11.