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NLJ this week: Disclosure, costs, part-timers & more in the latest employment decisions

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Employment lawyer Ian Smith covers five important cases from the past month in his employment law brief, in this week’s NLJ

Topics covered include less favourable treatment of part-timers, express terms, whistleblowing by job applicants, the procedure when requesting information and costs orders where vexatious procedure is alleged.

On the case relating to requests for information, Smith, who is a barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, UEA, writes that ‘an order for disclosure usually relates to a “document”, on which there is much authority’.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal was considering the position ‘where what the requesting party is seeking is information more generally. Do the Employment Tribunals Regulations 2013 permit such a request? The judgment seeks to set the matter to rights’. 

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Firm appoints new UK senior partner for 2026

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Keoghs—Louise Jackson & Katie Everson

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NEWS
Lawyers and users of the business and property courts are invited to share their views on disclosure, in particular the operation of PD 57AD and the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and artificial intelligence (AI)
Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law
Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ
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