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Weekly law digests

08 March 2018
Issue: 7784 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Employment

Mruke v Khan [2018] EWCA Civ 280 [2018] All ER (D) 16 (Mar)

The Employment Tribunal had not erred by confusing the motive for employing the employee with the issue of what characteristics should be attributed to the hypothetical comparator under the Race Relations Act 1976. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, further held that the decision of the ET on constructive dismissal was perverse and substituted a decision that the employee had been unfairly dismissed by the respondent.

Family proceedings

Re A-F (children) (care orders: restrictions on liberty) [2018] EWHC 138 (Fam) [2018] All ER (D) 21 (Feb)

The present test cases raised various substantive and procedural questions in relation to the interface between care proceedings brought in the Family Court, pursuant to Pt IV of the Children Act 1989, and the requirements of art 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Family Division held that the situation of the young or very young did not involve a confinement, gave a rule of thumb on at what point in the child’s

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Gibson Dunn—London partner promotions

Firm grows international bench with expanded UK partner class

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Shakespeare Martineau—six appointments

Firm makes major statement in the capital with strategic growth at The Shard

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Myers & Co—Jess Latham

Residential conveyancing team expands with solicitor 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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