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Employment law brief: 9 February 2024

09 February 2024 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8058 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Attention, TUPE geeks! Ian Smith talks us through a transfer case with a difference, as well as the latest employment developments
  • The common law defence of novus actus interveniens.
  • Three computational issues in unfair dismissal compensation.
  • TUPE: effect of the transfer of perpetrator, not the claimant.

The current flurry of employment-related legislation continued last month, with (i) changes to immigration law to introduce a new code of practice for employers and an increase in the administrative penalty for getting it wrong from £20,000 to £60,000, as from 13 February; (ii) the removal of the ‘family-related workers’ national minimum wage exception, as from 1 April; (iii) new rules on the composition of employment tribunals (ETs) and the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), full commencement dependent on the senior president of tribunals; and (iv) a revised Acas code of practice on flexible working, to be brought into force by order.

Also continuing is the governmental bad habit of late production of these changes. For example, the ET/EAT changes were published

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
The Court of Protection has ruled in Macpherson v Sunderland City Council that capacity must be presumed unless clearly rebutted. In this week's NLJ, Sam Karim KC and Sophie Hurst of Kings Chambers dissect the judgment and set out practical guidance for advisers faced with issues relating to retrospective capacity and/or assessments without an examination
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
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