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NLJ this week: Costs, corroboration, case management & inferences in employment law

13 September 2024
Issue: 8085 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Discrimination , Equality , Tribunals
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Bad blood, hearsay and a disappearing witness are the juicy components of NLJ’s latest Employment law brief

Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the Norwich Law School, UEA, selects four employment law cases from the dog days of summer, which will be of interest to employment lawyers.

Smith writes: ‘The first is a potentially important reconsideration of the case law on the burden of proof and the drawing of inferences in discrimination cases.

‘This is followed by three quite short cases on aspects of employment tribunal procedure which all make precise but significant points.’

The cases deal with a variety of topics, including discrimination in a local authority setting, case management and equal pay, costs and whether there is a requirement for corroboration of evidence in an employment tribunal. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Excello Law—five appointments

Excello Law—five appointments

Fee-share firm expands across key practice areas with senior appointments

Irwin Mitchell—Grace Morahan

Irwin Mitchell—Grace Morahan

International divorce team welcomes new hire

Switalskis—14 trainee solicitors

Switalskis—14 trainee solicitors

Firm welcomes largest training cohort in its history

NEWS
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
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
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
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
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