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24 January 2025 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8101 / Categories: Features , Employment , Tribunals , TUPE
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Employment law brief: 24 January 2025

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Ian Smith recommends a stiff drink & a towel around the head before plunging into the latest cases on TUPE, fair dismissal & enhanced compensation
  • Holiday pay: the effect of bankruptcy and an award of ‘interest like compensation’.
  • Breakdown of trust and confidence as a form of fair dismissal.
  • TUPE transfers and the right to object: a reappraisal.

We enter 2025 with the medium-term prospect of the Employment Rights Bill grinding its way through Parliament (with cries of ‘anti-business disaster’ from one side and ‘betrayal’ from the other), and the short-term reality of new Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure (largely repeating the present ones, but with the delightful prospect for Harvey editors of changes in their numbering), which came into force on 6 January. The cases considered here are a fairly typical mixture of the sort that we tend to get across the employment law spectrum, each of which is significant in its own area. The first concerns the effect of bankruptcy on a holiday

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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