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Workplace monitoring in a remote working age

Matthew Curtis reviews the legal risks involved with monitoring employees and puts forward practical tips to help ensure compliance of any surveillance system with the expected standards.

Eight Changes to the Employment Tribunal Rules for 2020

Grace Nicholls sums up the likely implications of the eight new Employment Tribunals rules announced by the government to increase flexibility within the Employment Tribunal system.

Is there a different burden of proof in relation to misconduct cases in which there is a possibility that an employee who works with children may pose a danger?

Sarah Clarke analyses K v L UKEAT/0014/18/JW.

Is a philosophical belief in Stoicism a protected belief under section 10 of the Equality Act? Yes it is, says London South Employment Tribunal.

Charlotte Hadfield analyses Mr S Jackson v Lidl Great Britain Ltd, Case Number 2302259/2019/V.

Does the failure to place a redundant employee on an existing “bank” workers list render a dismissal unfair?

Andrew MacPhail analyses Aramark (UK) Limited v Mr Fernandes UKEATS/0028/19/SS (13th March 2020).

3PB’s specialist family law barrister and Chair of the Western Circuit Women’s Forum (WCWF) Rachael Goodall sets out the WCWF’s proposals to mitigate the threat of significant and disproportionate attrition of women from the Bar due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Published in Counsel magazine October 2020 edition.

The remote witnessing of wills: a last resort
Lydia Pemberton examines The Wills Act 1837 (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 and its impact on the remote witnessing of wills.

Relocation dos and don'ts
Elisabeth Hudson reviews the dos and don'ts of children relocation.

SEND provision beyond 24 September 2020 - a brewing storm?
Caroline Stone examines the forthcoming changes to the SEND Regulations 2014.

Legislating in the time of Corona
Caroline Stone examines the Administrative Court’s recent decision in R (Amber Shaw (a child, by her mother and litigation friend Deanne Shaw) and ABC (a child, by his mother and litigation friend XYZ) in which two disabled children with EHC plans challenged decisions made by the Secretary of State for Education regarding SEND provision during the height of the pandemic.

Council wins Judicial Review challenge to academy order
Katherine Anderson reviews Somerset County Council v Secretary of State for Education [2020] EWHC 1675 (Admin).

“Low arousal” environments examined by the Upper Tribunal
Emma Waldron reviews JI and SP v Hertfordshire County Council (SEN), in which the Upper Tribunal examined whether sufficient reasons had been given by the First Tier Tribunal for rejecting expert evidence and for finding that a school could provide a “low arousal environment”.