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ELA Briefing

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	1 May 2004	The "Without Prejudice" Dismissal	Nick Ralph, Archon Solicitors	It is becoming an increasingly popular practice for employers to cut through the niceties of performance or disciplinary procedures by presenting the employee with a draft compromise agreement and a c...
	1 May 2004	The Dispute Resolution Regulations 05/04	David Lipworth, Baker & McKenzie	Following a consultation exercise in autumn 2003 (see ELA Briefing, December 2003), the government published the final draft of the Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004 i...
	1 May 2004	Canada Life - a Holiday Pay Time Bomb?	Jane Moorman and Emma Slark, Masons	Holiday pay is becoming the new TUPE in terms of the difficulty it is posing to employers and the frequency with which this subject is addressed by tribunals. The Employment Appeal Tribunal recently h...
	1 May 2004	Agency temp or Employee: Brook Street v Dacas	Richard O'Dair, 36 Bedford Row	Employment protection rights such as the right not to be unfairly dismissed conferred by S.94 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 are sometimes seen as a significant burden to employers and a reason not...
	1 May 2004	Strike out for unreasonable conduct	Peter Linstead, Clarendon Chambers	In Bolch v Chipman [2004] IRLR 140, the EAT considered the power given to tribunals by 15(2)(d) of the 2001 Rules to strike out where the manner in which proceedings have been conducted is "u...
	1 Jul 2004	Platform 07/04	John Hendy QC, chair ELBA, Old Square Chambers	A firm goes bust and 2,500 workers learn over breakfast radio that they are redundant. The liquidator finds insufficient assets to pay outstanding wages, holiday pay, wages in lieu of notice, money to...
	1 Jul 2004	In Brief - Directive not Working	Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP	The disastrous effect of the ECJ's decisions in SIMAP [2001] ICR 1116 and Landeshaupstadt Kiel v Jaeger ECJ, 9.9.03 (C-152/02) on the working time regimes in many member states is we...
	1 Jul 2004	In Brief - Puffing Away	Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP	Banning smoking in the workplace is in the news again. At the end of May the papers reported that a proposal for a new law would appear in the next Labour party manifesto. On 6 June the prime minister...
	1 Jul 2004	In Brief - Costs in Tribunals	Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP	In Alastair McPherson v BNP Paribas [2004] EWCA Civ 569, the Court of Appeal varied a costs order which had been made by a tribunal on the basis of unreasonable conduct.
	1 Jul 2004	The `Without Prejudice' Dismissal Revisited	Thomas Brown, Cloisters	In ELA Briefing, May 2004, Nick Ralph considered the `without prejudice' dismissal. A recent interlocutory decision of the EAT is based on principles which may go further to prevent employers...