ONE of the most irritating things about the Tories at Westminster is their utter hypocrisy. While trumpeting the importance of human rights at home and abroad, their approach to protecting them is very selective. Often, they do the opposite of what they say. One distinguished professor of law has called it “constitutional gaslighting”. To take just one example, last week the Joint Committee on Human Rights heard alarming evidence from police, lawyers and the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller community about the likely impact of the Tories’ plans to criminalise unauthorised encampments and seize traveller’s property including their caravans. While purporting to defend the property rights of landowners the Tories are prepared to throw the travelling community’s way of life under the bus and have a very cavalier attitude to the travellers’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their property. These proposals are just one more objectionable aspect of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and C
Our May 2021 update considers key employment law developments from April. It includes recent cases on automatic unfair dismissal in the context of serious and imminent danger arising.
A SIX-YEAR battle for more than £400,000 in compensation for 56 workers at a South Yorkshire electronics firm will be taken to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Unite has accused German-owned company Kostal UK in Rotherham of bypassing union negotiations after workers voted to reject a pay increase in 2015.
Kostal contacted workers directly, threatening them with loss of a Christmas bonus and the sack if they did not accept the pay proposal.
Unite took the case to an employment tribunal and won; the workers were awarded £426,000 in compensation.
Kostal took the case to the Employment Appeal Tribunal and lost again, but the decision was overruled at the Court of Appeal in 2019.
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Reappointment of the Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
Her Majesty the Queen, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, has approved the reappointment of the Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
From:
7 May 2021
Helen Pitcher OBE has been reappointed as Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) for a term of 5 years from 1 November 2021.
CCRC is an independent body, set up by the Criminal Appeal Act 1995, to investigate possible miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
CCRC decides if there is any new evidence or new argument which raises a real possibility that an appeal court would quash a conviction or reduce a sentence.