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Employment law brief: 20 January 2023

20 January 2023 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8009 / Categories: Features , Employment , Disciplinary&grievance procedures , Covid-19
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Ian Smith is back with a bang, rounding up the latest employment updates including COVID fears in the workplace & claims submitted one day out of time
  • Health and safety protection: unfair dismissal and COVID fears.
  • Applying the just and equitable extension of time.
  • Problems with ruling on admissibility of evidence at a preliminary stage.

Just before the Christmas break, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in a case that had been awaited by employment lawyers, concerning the operation of a potentially relevant piece of legislation in COVID-related cases. Ultimately the question was whether an employee dismissed for refusing to return to work for fear of infection could claim the protection of the special unfair dismissal provisions on dismissal for health and safety-connected reasons. We had already had of course the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision (the first at appellate level), but it was possible to argue that that decision was largely on factual issues, leaving much to be examined in more detail.

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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
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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
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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