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Employment law brief: 14 February 2025

14 February 2025 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8104 / Categories: Features , Employment , Tribunals , Discrimination
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No laughing matter: in this month’s brief, Ian Smith sets out guidance on damages awarded for hurt feelings & considers the scope of the Blacklisting Regulations
  • The impact of contributory action by the employee on the question of re-employment.
  • Guidance on making awards for injury to feelings.
  • Blacklists: do the activities of a trade union include industrial action?

The last month saw the coming into force of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (SI 2024/1155) on 6 January and the commencement of the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 on 17 January. One difference between them is that the new rules are complete in themselves (with no transitional provisions), whereas the Act is almost entirely of a regulation-making nature, with the actual schemes to be set out in secondary legislation. The word is that the government intends this to be done by April, so watch this space.

It’s a funny old thing, legislative intent. The government are getting heavily into the idea of deregulation, in

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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