THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY RISE TO THE CHALLENGE FOR THE SECOND YEAR
The second Freeth Cartwright Corporate Challenge was held on the longest day, Sunday 21 June, but thankfully no-one needed all the daylight hours to get round the 75, 50 and 18 mile circuits beginning and ending at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham.
FREETH CARTWRIGHT’S BIRMINGHAM LAWYERS RACE TO THE TOP
A team of Birmingham lawyers has shown their competition a clean pair of heels by winning the Corporate Relay Challenge in the annual Great Midlands Fun Run, held this month in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
It is well established law that in order for an employee to be entitled to resign their employment and claim constructive dismissal the employer must have committed a ‘repudiatory’ breach of contract. However, the circumstances as to what might constitute a repudiatory breach of contract have always been more complex. A repudiatory breach of contract does not necessarily have to be one isolated incident and can be a series of incidents over time.The government’s policy of aiming, insofar as possible, to introduce new employment legislation only twice yearly means that we have not seen a wealth of new legislation in May but this is more than made up for by the copious amount of case law.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) has been considering whether belief in climate change can be a philosophical belief; what evidence is required in applying for an extension of time in the ironically entitled Accurist Watches v Wadher case; in North Tyneside Primary Care Trust v Ms Aynsley we hear the refreshingly frank and honest comments by the President of the EAT about certain parts of the, thankfully, outgoing Employment Tribunal rules of procedure; there are two interesting constructive dismissal cases, a lesson in lying (or should we say not lying) at Tribunal and we look at the government’s announcement providing details of its new ‘fit note’ to replace the old sick note.
Whilst many of the cases featured in this month’s review are at EAT level, we also report on the important Rolls Royce case in the Court of Appeal addressing whether the use of length of service as a criterion in redundancy selection is unlawful age discrimination.
SOLICITORS IN SCHOOLS ARE A SUCCESS
FREETH CARTWRIGHT SOLICITOR EMBARKS ON BORNEO TRIP
A solicitor from Midlands heavyweight law firm Freeth Cartwright is about to swap her hectic working day to embark on an intrepid expedition to Borneo for youth and education charity, Raleigh.
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE BEE POPULATION
Freeth Cartwright, the leading Midlands legal firm, is assisting Tony Spacey, whose Littleover Apiaries in Derbyshire is the largest commercial honey producer in the UK, to air his concerns regarding the catastrophic decline in wild bee numbers and the poor health of the farmed bee population.
