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Weekly Employment Update - 4th December 2012
Tuesday 4th December 2012Welcome to Ashfords' Weekly Employment Update, where each week we consider recent developments in Employment and HR issues. In this update, we will consider the recent High Court decision to award damages to a manager after he was demoted for expressing certain views about gay marriage on his Facebook page. This case has highlighted the challenges that businesses face with diversity in the workplace and the increased use of social media. more...
Cross Border Restructuring and Insolvency Update - November 2012
Thursday 29th November 2012Local authority not liable for pupil's injury
Monday 19th November 2012Local authorities will welcome a recent Court of Appeal decision in a case where a young pupil at a school in Cleveland suffered facial injuries when he was hit by a golf club swung by a fellow pupil during a golf lesson. more...
Stress at Work - capping the claim is not clear cut
Monday 19th November 2012Stress at work cases are notoriously complex, as exemplified by Lord Justice Hale in the case of Hatton v Sutherland [2002], who said: 'many stress-related illnesses are likely to have a complete aetiology with several different causes. In principle, a wrongdoer should pay only for that proportion of the harm suffered for which he by his wrongdoing is responsible…'. more...
