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High days & pay-offs

22 October 2009 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7390 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Ian Smith celebrates the highs & lows of recent tribunal decisions

In a month notable for the high-profile rejection of the “Heyday” challenge to the default retirement age of 65, but in a way that strongly suggested that it will need to be removed when the government carries out its promised review of it (now to be in 2010 rather than 2011 as originally indicated) and for the equally newsworthy decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that an employee who is sick while taking holiday can ask for the holiday to be rescheduled, the cases considered here are at the opposite end of the employment law spectrum where there is no obvious news and/or political interest, but where pronouncements on points of common law or statutory interpretation can have just as great an effect on the longer-term development of the law.

Ultra vires contracts

While it has always been clear that employment under an illegal contract is potentially void, destroying any rights, what is the position where the contract is ultra

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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
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
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
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
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
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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