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Employment law brief: 12 August 2022

12 August 2022 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7991 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Common law under attack? Ian Smith reports on the latest cases from the Court of Appeal & a particularly busy spell for Lord Justice Bean & Lady Justice Simler
  • No limit on the power to terminate on proper notice.
  • Upholding the ‘least burdensome’ principle.
  • Explaining the separability principle.

The last month has seen two awaited decisions of the Supreme Court, in Harpur Trust v Brazel [2022] UKSC 21, [2022] All ER (D) 72 (Jul) on the statutory holiday pay entitlement of a part-year (as opposed to a part-time) worker, and in Basfar v Wong [2022] UKSC 20, [2022] All ER (D) 15 (Jul) on the application of diplomatic immunity in cases of alleged modern slavery (also of interest as it is the first leapfrog appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) directly to the Supreme Court). These will doubtless be debated elsewhere. The cases considered in this brief were at Court of Appeal level and considered important principles of the common law of employment which in one way or

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DWF—19 appointments

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Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

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NEWS
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
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
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
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
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