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Eye on employment

25 July 2013 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7570 / Categories: Features , Employment
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It’s been a big month in the world of employment law, notes Ian Smith

The last month has seen major legislative changes, with several provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 coming into force, the issuing of the new Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure (to come into force on 29 July) and the publication of a Deregulation Bill. It has to be said that the portents for the latter are hopefully to be better than the attempt at such legislation in the mid-1990s when an empowering Act only led to one deregulation order, which in relation to employment law only repealed two provisions—the Home Work (Lampshades) Order 1929 and the Horizontal Milling Machines (Amendment) Regulations 1934, both of which had of course been holding British industry back for years. Against such a backdrop it might be expected that case law would seem relatively sidelined, but the three cases below each make important contributions to the law in their areas.

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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

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
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
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
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
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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