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ELA Briefing

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	1 Aug 2010	Editorial - August 2010	Alex Lock, editor	The Tribunals Service has published its latest report, covering 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. Despite the fact that everyone and their paralegal has been proclai...
	1 Aug 2010	Court overturns Ravat	Marc Jones, Turbervilles	In Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd [2010] CSIH 52, the Court of Session Inner House adopted differing approaches to the guidelines determining the territorial scope for claim...
	1 Aug 2010	Data protection bolstered	Marc Jones, Turbervilles	Under the second stage of the EU infringement procedures, the European Commission has requested that the UK strengthen its data protection authority powers so that it is EU Data Protection Directive (...
	1 Aug 2010	Bankers' bonuses capped	Marc Jones, Turbervilles	Following negotiations between the European Council and the European Parliament, an agreement has been reached on capital requirements for banks and a cap o...
	1 Aug 2010	Equal pay round-up	Tariq Sadiq, Devereux Chambers	As employment practitioners adjourn for their summer holidays, Tariq Sadiq rounds up the important equal pay cases from the first half of the year and highlights some future cases that could become re...
	1 Aug 2010	The CBI's employment agenda: common sense or exploitation?	Andreas White, Kingsley Napley LLP	In June, the CBI published `Making Britain the place to work: an employment agenda for the new government'. The report sets out the business body's vision for the reform of UK employment law, highligh...
	1 Aug 2010	Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Douglas Leach, Queen Square Chambers	In the event of widely publicised and catastrophic failures by public authorities, it is not infrequently the case that senior heads are made to roll in an effort to a...
	1 Aug 2010	Scotthorne v Four Seasons (Conservatories) Ltd	Matthew Smith, Lees Solicitors LLP	Matthew Smith reports on the EAT's recent deliberations in Scotthorne v Four Seasons (Conservatories) Ltd, which centred on whether litigation privilege extended to communications between the employer...
	1 Aug 2010	ELA visits the European Commission and ETUI	Juliet Carp, Speechly Bircham LLP	In May four ELA members - ELA chair Joanne Owers, international committee chair Chris Walters and two committee members, Fraser Younson and the writer of this report, Juliet Carp - visited the Europea...
	1 Aug 2010	In Review - An insight into the minds of tribunals	Roseanne Russell, Thompsons	Roseanne Russell recommends Costs in Employment Tribunals by Daniel Barnett, Kate Palka and Benjamin Hay (£85) as a welcome new addition to the Jordans Employment Law Series