Stress at Work – A legal overview The problem Stress can adversely affect undermine the quality of an employee’s performance and is a major cause of absence from work, and can damage the employer’s business. The scale of the problem The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that 12.5 million working days were lost to … Read more
SECONDARY SCHOOL TRANSFERS – 6th April 2018 With many pupils and parents today receiving details of the school where they have been offered a place, Phil Storey, Education Law Solicitor sets out the law on secondary school admissions and appeals. Parents are entitled to express a preference for schools for their child upon … Read more
In Hale v Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust UKEAT/0342/16/LA the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered whether a decision to instigate an investigation which resulted in disciplinary proceedings, and the subsequent dismissal of the Claimant amounted to “conduct extending over a period of time.” The EAT concluded that the entirety of the disciplinary process was … Read more
On 14 March 2018, the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of head teacher, for failing to disclose a relationship with person convicted of a sexual offence. In Reilly v Sandwell MBC [2018]. The Appellant, Ms Reilly, the former head teacher of a primary school, was in a relationship with a man convicted of making indecent … Read more
