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Employment law brief: 14 July 2023

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Back to school already? Ian Smith sets out some instructive lessons from the courts on the definition of a worker, the conduct of disciplinary hearings, & the perils of making a mistake
  • The ‘worker’ definition and the use of a service company.
  • Who should conduct the disciplinary hearing in a misconduct dismissal case?
  • Can a judgment be reconsidered because of an error by a representative?

Three fairly fundamental questions are considered (and largely settled) by the cases considered this month. In the first case, the well-worn law on ‘worker’ status had to be applied to the novel (to employment law) context of the person claiming that status post-termination, having operated during their engagement through the intermediary of a service company. The result is instructive. In the second case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) reconsidered the question of the fairness of a misconduct dismissal where the dismissing manager does not actually hear the disciplined employee, but relies on a report from an investigating officer. The pre-existing

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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
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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