<p>Where workers are employed on permanent contracts but work for only part of the year, how should their holiday pay be calculated? The Court of Appeal addressed that burning issue in a test case concerning a school music teacher.</p> <p><img alt=”Music” src=”https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/legalrss-production/assets/3295/small/black-and-white-blur-document-164821.jpg?1566523759″ style=”border-style:solid; border-width:0px; float:left; margin:2px 7px” />The teacher was not a casual worker, but… Read more »

<p><img alt=”plane landing” src=”https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/legalrss-production/assets/3051/small/IMAG0829.jpg?1522760593″ style=”border-style:solid; border-width:0px; float:right; margin:2px 5px” />Holidaymakers and business travellers will be interested to know that very particular rules apply to accidents that occur on board aircraft. However, expert lawyers can be relied upon to rise to such challenges and, in one case, won a passenger six-figure compensation following a slipping accident.</p>… Read more »

<p>Defamatory statements posted on the Internet are viewed worldwide, raising the question of exactly where the reputational harm they cause has arisen. The High Court tackled that very modern issue in a libel case brought by a man who claimed to be the creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency.</p> <p>The computer scientist launched proceedings in London… Read more »

<p>Can foreign nationals who work illegally in this country rely on their employment contracts in bringing proceedings before an Employment Tribunal (ET)? The Court of Appeal tackled that issue in a decision which signals a judicial clampdown on the exploitation of overseas workers.</p> <p>The case concerned a foreign live-in domestic worker whose employer had provided… Read more »

<p>Inheritance disputes take many shapes and forms, but few can have been as tragic or unusual as that concerning an elderly couple who were found dead in their home from hypothermia in circumstances which gave rise to bitter disagreement between their children as to which of them died first.</p> <p>The bodies of the couple, who… Read more »

Everyone has the right to campaign against what they perceive as injustice, but only if that does not involve trampling on the rights of others. In a case on point, a mother paid with her liberty for relentlessly publicising her complaints about the family justice system, causing immense distress to two of her children. The… Read more »

The balance of power between HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and individual taxpayers may appear to be all one way. However, as a Court of Appeal decision showed, expert legal advice can be highly effective in levelling the playing field. HMRC wished to open an enquiry into a businessman’s tax return but, in order to… Read more »

In a decision which will cost the NHS many millions of pounds, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a hospital trust failed to properly monitor a group of junior doctors’ working patterns so as to ensure that they received adequate rest breaks. In a test case backed by the British Medical Association, a junior… Read more »

The distinction between political opinions and philosophical beliefs is far from easy to make. However, in a guideline decision, an Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled that a commitment to the cause of Scottish independence falls into the latter category and is thus protected by the Equality Act 2010. The case concerned a former Ministry of… Read more »

The limited territorial reach of English Employment Tribunals (ETs) can pose difficulties to those who lead globe-trotting working lives. In a guideline case, however, the former captain of a superyacht which moved from port to port won the right to pursue his unfair dismissal claim in this country. The captain launched proceedings before an ET… Read more »