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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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