On 12 January Lord Justice Briggs published his interim report concerning the structure and operation of the civil courts. The full review is expected to be completed by the end of July 2016. Mr Justice Briggs has identified a “clear and pressing need to create an Online Court”. This is intended to deal with claims…
As widely reported a couple of weeks ago the European Court of Human Rights has handed down a significant judgment in the Romanian case of Barbulescu which confirms the right of employers to access the private communications of employees while they are at work. Mr Barbulescu, a Romanian national living in Bucharest, worked for a…
Section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 provides for a new Part 2A to be inserted in the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 and entitled “Financial Penalties for Failure to Pay Sums Ordered to be Paid or Settlement Sums”. This brings into effect the much heralded and somewhat delayed procedure for imposing…
Mr Donkor was born in 1960 and started his employment with the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1978. He worked through the ranks and, from 2003, was employed as a regional director in retail banking. In 2012 there was a bank restructure which effectively meant that all existing regional directors would have to go through…