⚖️ The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in Maritime and Coastguard Agency v Martin Groom.
@sbrittendenkc.bsky.social and Professor Alan Bogg acted for Mr Groom and were instructed by Pattinson and Brewer. Mr Groom was supported by the GMB.
🔗Read more: oldsquare.co.uk/court-of-app...
The email I save to drafts once I discover I’m not cited in the footnotes and then delete the following day.
I was in Glasgow yesterday giving a paper and very much felt the same. Great universities situated in wonderful cities.
Indeed, though I’d prefer “rendered invisible”.
Yes, it is a practice that ought to be invisibilised.
There are profound difficulties with the funding model and financial state of UK universities. Crisis isn’t hyperbolic.This ministerial attempt to grapple with them is deeply unserious.
There may be good reasons for allowing substitution clauses as a matter of contractual freedom. Potentially, they could serve the interests of workers and employers. Facilitating the avoidance of statutory liabilities by lead companies in supply chains or chains of labour contracts is not of them.
IJDL editors list extract from https://journals.sagepub.com/cms/asset/f7e99b48-5c4e-4123-9783-161ad2b2be6c/jdia_25_1.ed_board.pdf showing the names of the case note, etc Ed’s
Extract from the submission guidelines: Article types The International Journal of Discrimination and the Law publishes original research and literature reviews that addresses discrimination, equality and the law. Submitted papers are to be written in English. Papers should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. The preferred maximum length is 12,000 words, including notes and references. Each paper should come with the following information on a separate sheet: 1. Title of paper, date and word count; 2. Author's full name, affiliation, institutional and email address, telephone and fax numbers; 3. An abstract of 150 to 200 words; 4. A list of 5 to 8 key words. Alongside articles of up to 12,000 words, which can be written in various appropriate styles (see past issues), the journal also welcomes Case notes / legislation / policy analysis (of between 2000 and 5000 words). For case notes, these should adopt the following structure: Introduction; facts of the case; decision and reasoning of the court; discussion/analysis (this section can include subsections); conclusion.
Alongside longer articles, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law also includes Case Notes (and legislation and policy notes) overseen by section eds Prof Lucy Vickers and Dr Rachel Horton journals.sagepub.com/author-instr...
“Good Friday Spell”, from Parsifal
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Come and work with me!
The TUC is looking for a policy officer to contribute to our work on employment rights and wider labour market policy.
The role will support our response to new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Join us for a seminar on Structural Injustice and the Law, which I co-edited with @jowolff.bsky.social. It’s organised by Adalberto Perulli at Ca’Foscari in Venice on 10/4.
In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers.
Further details in the poster.
It was based in a suggestion in that Blog post, we think. A blend of business flexibility and worker protection to please everyone (or nobody)!
The Employment Rights Bill will allow collective agreeements to opt out of the labyrinthine provisions on guaranteed hours. Shall we call this the Bogg/Ford amendment? @thebigbogg.bsky.social
Funnily enough, as this alert popped up, I was shamelessly encouraging my LLM students to read this book. If Anton Chekhov wrote on labour law, it would be like this…
A powerful rejoinder - and well worth a read, of course.
Thanks v much - and it’s a reflection of how seriously we take your important intervention.
The 'must read' of the day is the written evidence on the Employment Rights Bill submitted by @thebigbogg.bsky.social and Michael Ford KC.
Ihttps://bills.parliament.uk/publications/57495/documents/5541
O much cheaper than the attire
Evidence in which @thebigbogg.bsky.social describes himself as a 'simple lawyer' & then suggests removal of the statutory assumption that collective bargaining is not legally enforceable, & deprioritising personal service when determining employment status so that it's just a factor in the mix.
A cheap piece of rhetoric, dear Jason
🔥Watch @thebigbogg.bsky.social Simon Deakin + Melanie Simms cut to the heart of the Employment Bill:
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Where The Big Bogg goes, The Big Blog follows. Welcome!
