Dismissal: Settlement agreements – what can the P&O scandal tell us?

Joseph Lappin reviews how to use confidential settlement agreements correctly after accusations that P&O ‘blackmailed’ staff into signing away their employment rights Settlement agreements should never be used to prevent proper disclosure about the agreement or the circumstances surrounding the agreement to professional advisers, who are bound by a duty of confidentiality. In March this …
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Boundary agreements: Fuzzy and uncertain

David Nuttall considers the High Court decision in Gibson v New and its potential consequences All taken together, it seems clear that Neilson v Poole is an authority for a boundary agreement being proprietary in nature, and binding on successors. In the recent High Court appeal of Gibson v New [2021], Murray J held that …
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