Mark Tarran

Reintroducing fees would be likely to act as a barrier to justice unless they are so low as to be barely worth the expense of administering a system for collecting them and assessing exemptions for those unable to pay. They would also disincentivise employers reaching pre-action settlements.

Also the sick feeling in my stomach, having ended up catching a bus from Kings Cross due to tube shutdown, to later see images of a bombed out bus.

And I had forgotten about the walking home part. I didn’t have to walk to Cambridge but I did walk from Southwark to Tottenham Hale to get a train. Remember it taking forever and being rather warm.

Remember getting off late running train from Cambridge to King’s Cross, discovering tube closed, later pondering which tube I would have been on if train had been on time.

(in so far as is reasonably practicable)

My position is on all fours with my learned friend Matt.

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An AI advert on a tube train saying “stop hiring humans”

I think some people may be forgetting how the economy actually works.

Standing on shakey ground he is.

Latest addition to newspeak dictionary.

Political theatre: asking a question at a government press conference.

Not political theatre: holding a press conference to declare your intention to “liberate” people from their elected representatives, then handcuffing a senator in front of cameras.

Don’t forget to puncture holes in the lid with a searing hot fork. Apparently missing this step is where most people go wrong.

I’m choosing to ignore my feelings of inadequacy over your first post because your second reassured me I’m in good company.

It hardly needs saying, but the sighing was one very small part of the overall picture in this case which was largely a dispute about time off, performance reviews and reasonable adjustments for ADHD.

I haven’t read the decision, but what I think this is getting at, in a roundabout way, is that the Equality Act 2010 in some circumstances prohibits discrimination by political parties against members but the courts should not add further constraints beyond what parliament has legislated for.

I think my brexit freedoms must have fallen out of my hand luggage while I was queuing at passport control in Calais, because I can’t find them now either. Also I spoke French to a shopkeeper on holiday so I’m probably cancelled now anyway.

Oof

Absolutely love Gillian Welch. I keep coming back to her music. Truly music for the soul.

“Unchecked power”? The court IS the check.

I just repeatedly ask them for the name of the person they want to speak to until they eventually hang up.

In consequence of which, I wish you all reasonable prospects of success for your festive proceedings conducted in accordance with the overriding objective and in a manner which is neither scandalous nor vexatious.

Last day of work before Christmas break and I’ve spent several days amending our materials for the new Employment Tribunal Rules.

Reminds me of my Dad who never tired of telling me that “a preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with”. (Yes, I know, the long winter evenings simply flew by.)

They could further simplify things by simply getting rid of the complicated acas early conciliation extension and just say that the time limit is the later of six months from the cause of action or one month after the end of EC.

It would certainly be comforting to think so.

No, sadly the published Bill doesn’t get updated until after the committee stage.

The joys of having to deal with a Bill that was drafted in haste to meet an arbitrary and needlessly self-imposed deadline….

Oh no, a 53 page list of mainly government amendments to the Employment Right Bill to be debated in committee. 😫https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0011/amend/employment_rights_rm_pbc_1127.pdf

Pregnancy is a bad analogy because the Act doesn’t say “pregnancy includes lack of pregnancy” but it does say belief includes lack of belief. Lack of belief includes indifference and indecision, see Forstater (EAT) para 106.

We definitely don’t want to go down that road again.