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| 1 May 2012 | Industrial action: Serco approach prevails | Alice Carse, Devereux Chambers | ELA Briefing | Recent cases have demonstrated that whether industrial action can go ahead depends on the approach taken by the courts to interpreting and applying the balloting provisions in part V of the Trade Unio... | |
| 1 Mar 2008 | The Legal Landscape after Gibbons | Guy Hollebon and Lucinda Bromfield, Bevans Solicitors | ELA Briefing | "The simplification of anything is always sensational,'' GK Chesterton. |
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| 1 Apr 2008 | Government to Reshackle Prison Officers | Paul McFarlane and Ashley Irving, Weightmans LLP | ELA Briefing | The government has decided to introduce legislation that will prevent prison officers taking part in industrial action. | |
| 1 May 2008 | In Brief - I Declare! | Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP | ELA Briefing | In Unison & GMB v (1) Brennan & ors and (2) Sunderland City Council (UKEAT/0580/07), a case deriving from an equal pay claim, there was the spectacle of not one but two trade unions seeking to deprive... | |
| 1 Jun 2008 | Employment law challenges in Hong Kong and China | Pattie Walsh, Lihui Zhou, and Alison Smith | ELA Briefing | Pattie Walsh, Lihui Zhou and Alison Smith consider the employment law challenges for foreign companies seeking to establish a business or extend their operations i... |
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| Laval, Viking Line and the Limited Right to Strike | Daniel Ornstein, Herbert Smith | ELA Briefing | |||
| 1 Nov 2008 | Laval, Viking and the Limited Right to Strike | Daniel Ornstein, Herbert Smith | ELA Briefing | Two European Court of Justice rulings, Viking Line and Laval, have a potentially far-reaching impact on the lawfulness of industrial action in the UK. In both cases, employees sought... | |
| 1 Dec 2006 | In Brief - Protective Awards | Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP | ELA Briefing | Burton J cannot keep away from the EAT. He returned in October and gave judgment on a novel point on the interpretation of s.189 TU & LR(C) Act 1992. The question was whether a protective aw... |
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| 1 Apr 2007 | In Brief - Europe Backs BNP Expulsion | Clive Howard, Russell Jones & Walker | ELA Briefing | The European Court of Human Rights has confirmed in ASLEF v UK (11002/05) that the union was entitled to expel BNP member Mr Lee. |
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| 1 Jan 2003 | Wilson, Palmer & ors v The UK Government | Paul Statham, Pattinson & Brewer Paul Statham had conduct of the dockworkers’ claims from the initial tribunal hearings to the European Court of Human Rights | ELA Briefing | The case of Wilson, Palmer & ors v The UK Government [2002] IRLR 568 stands as a landmark decision that may have wide-ranging ramifications for collective labour legislation in the United ... |