In his 200th Employment Law Brief, published in NLJ this week, Ian Smith revisits the distant past of 1999 when he wrote his first column, the year of the Employment Relations Act, which was heavily criticised for its ‘Henry VIII’ powers. He recalls concern about the potential explosion in the size of the law due to all the detail being left to statutory instruments. Smith fast-forwards to his 100th column in 2009, when preparatory work was being done on the Equality Act. His column was concerned with three cases which have resonance today.
19 April 2018
Smith's employment history
MOVERS & SHAKERS
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NEWS
It is possible to obtain a UK patent for an artificial intelligence (AI) machine which uses artificial neural networks (ANNs), the Supreme Court has held
The current state of geopolitics is so volatile it is ‘fundamentally reshaping’ the role of general counsel, according to a report by a global network of law firms
The High Court has clarified how winding-up petitions must be served, in a decision with implications for 30,000 UK businesses using the Companies House default address for official mail
The ‘statutory remit’ of super-regulator the Legal Services Board (LSB) is to come under scrutiny in a government review
There is ‘an overwhelming operational case for a new civil justice centre in Cardiff,’ Baroness Carr, the Lady Chief Justice, has told MPs
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