The London Marathon is on Sunday. I will be running it, as usual, for fun (for a given value of fun), but also to raise…
In my last post, I mentioned that the EAT likes the relevant passages of authorities to be highlighted or sidelined. Highlighting is fairly obvious. You…
Yesterday, I was at the Employment Appeal Tribunal User Group. The members were asked to pass a couple of messages outwards to the wider community.…
HM Courts & Tribunals Service has announced a number of austerity measures that users of the employment tribunals can expect to see over the coming…
The American Bar Association makes all of the merits briefs to the US Supreme court available online. Don’t rush off to read them if you’re…
During the course of litigation, you will have to refer to the parties, in letters, written submissions and so on. There are basically two ways…
If you have access to formally reported cases, such as the Industrial Cases Law Reports, you will see that they include a headnote. These are…
A lot of people put chronologies inside other documents, most commonly written submissions. This is not a terrible sin, but it’s normally better to keep…
If both sides are sensible, this won’t happen. That doesn’t mean that you’ll always agree what’s relevant – it’s just that it’s rarely worth falling…
Most schedules of loss are divided into past loss (loss that has already been suffered) and future loss (loss that will occur in the future).…