Legal news: Employment update

Jo Broadbent rounds up recent developments affecting employers and their advisers The presidents of the employment tribunals expect greater use of in-person hearings in cases that involve detailed or contested evidence, such as complex preliminary points and final hearings of short-track claims. Guidance on reducing the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace On 1 April, …
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Capacity: A nuanced approach

Adam Stewart-Wallace outlines lessons from Hinduja on conducting litigation Hinduja v Hinduja [2021] involved the determination of two essentially independent, but independently interesting, applications, one regarding the appointment of the claimant’s daughter as litigation friend (the regularisation application), and the second regarding a privacy application made by the defendants (the privacy application). The court’s treatment …
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Insights by Penningtons Manches Cooper: A slice too far?

Nicole Finlayson and Clare Arthurs look at access to documents by non-parties ‘Cape concerned the extent and operation of the principle of open justice in terms of what access non-parties to litigation should be given to the written material, and how.’ In a showstopper judgment, a unanimous Supreme Court has clarified the extent of the …
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