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Employment law brief: 28 July 2016

28 July 2016 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7709 / Categories: Features , Employment
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The employment law gods give with one hand and take back with the other, says Ian Smith

  • Conflict of authority on a point that has arisen only recently as to the present ACAS Code’s applicability.
  • Applications for injunctions to restrain threatened industrial action, with very different outcomes.

Employment law is hardly known normally as a haven of peace and quiet, but given what else has been going on this last month we might perhaps count ourselves lucky to be able to seek refuge in it. If there is a theme to the four cases chosen for this Brief, it may be that the employment law gods give with one hand and take back with the other. The first and second cases (ironically on the very first ACAS Code which has been with us forever) disclose a conflict of authority on a point that has arisen only recently as to the present Code’s applicability. The third and fourth cases are relatively rare examples these days of applications for injunctions to restrain threatened

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