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Employment law briefing: 27 April 2007

27 April 2007 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7270 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Employment
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DTI gets egg on its face, The Gibbons review, What should replace abandoned statutory procedures?

On a Thursday towards the end of March, your humble author was speaking at an employment law conference in London, giving the session on the statutory dismissal and grievance procedures, castigating them thoroughly, but giving the prediction that they would not be abandoned because of the amount of egg-on-face for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which had been so keen to impose them. At that exact moment, the DTI announced that the procedures were to be repealed completely.

Given this unerring accuracy and sense of timing on my part, giving me my new official position as Jonah to the world of employment law, I invite readers to write in to me with employment laws that they would love to see go so that I can arrange to speak on them, thus triggering this uncanny reaction from the DTI. Actually, as a list of such laws is likely to be unmanageable, please do not do

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Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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