The government's new Employment Rights Bill will create important new rights for workers, but a lack of funding risks leaving an increasing number of unrepresented litigants unable to meaningfully access the justice system, experts have told Law360.
The government's new Employment Rights Bill will create important new rights for workers, but a lack of funding risks leaving an increasing number of unrepresented litigants unable to meaningfully access the justice system, experts have told Law360.
An employment tribunal has ruled that an ex-staffer can't rely on a privileged document she mistakenly received from her bosses' solicitors because they weren't scheming against her and scrapped her entire case over her "malicious" actions.
Primark's parent company said Monday that the high street clothing chain's chief executive has resigned following an internal investigation by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP into his behavior toward a woman.
Five alleged victims of abuse by Mohamed al-Fayed are planning to launch personal injury claims against the estate of the billionaire, who died in 2023, solicitors acting for the group said Monday.
Britain's judicial conduct watchdog has sanctioned an employment judge for telling the nonlegal members of a panel that they were there to make the complainant "feel satisfied."
A Caribbean bank argued in court Monday it could not be sued in England over a £415 million ($537 million) value-added tax fraud, because the matter had already been resolved by a judgment in Curaçao.
A London appellate judge has held that a National Health Service trust isn't liable for a staffer's "monkey" remark toward a Black colleague, upholding a ruling that the comment was related to union activities rather than the staffer and the Black colleague's day jobs.
The trustee of two Lloyds Banking Group pension schemes said Monday it has penned two insurance policies totaling £5.1 billion ($6.6 billion) with Rothesay Life PLC to cover the cost of unexpected increases in the life expectancy of their members.
