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19 July 2012 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7523 / Categories: Features , Tribunals , Disciplinary&grievance procedures , Employment
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A position of trust

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Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

I must start this column by thanking my old friend and conference sparring partner Prof Dominic Regan for his kind words in his recent column concerning my retirement from national conference speaking after many years, and thanking me for handing on to him my subscription to Stringfellows club which he said I had taken out purely to research the background to the recent decision of the EAT in Quashie v Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd [2012] IRLR 536 bestowing employment status on a lapdancer (see “Strange but true”, NLJ 6 July 2012, p 914). As a condition of this assignment, I have insisted that he attend the said establishment regularly just in case there is to be an appeal (or, at least, that is what he told his wife when she found the membership card in his pocket). His column led me to muse on our respective titles of “Professor” and whether there might be a less prosaic title that we might adopt

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