BSB publishes new Equality and Research Strategies – Bar Standards Board
‘The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published a new Equality Strategy and a new Research Strategy.’
Bar Standards Board, 13th July 2022
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
‘Female doctors have launched an online campaign that they say exposes shocking gender-based discrimination, harassment and sexual assault in healthcare.’
The Guardian, 11th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The “Bill of Rights Bill” (the “Bill”), introduced to Parliament on 22 June this year, has the potential to have significant implications for employment law. Once tribunals and courts accept the Bill’s exhortation to give “great weight” to freedom of speech, the consequences for workplace relations may be profound.’
UK Labour Law, 6th July 2022
Source: uklabourlawblog.com
‘A trainee solicitor who subjected two female colleagues to “harassing and abusive behaviour” at a work Christmas party has been fined £2,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).’
Legal Futures, 16th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Peterborough landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a private tenant, following a prosecution brought by Peterborough City Council.’
Local Government Lawyer, June 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A former elite acrobatic gymnast has become the first to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced in the sport.’
BBC News, 12th June 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A “monster” who murdered one neighbour and seriously wounded two others in a “spree of planned violence” after they took legal action to try to curtail his 12-year campaign of extreme harassment has been jailed for at least 37 years.’
The Guardian, 9th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court recently dismissed a judicial review challenge to a school exclusion decision. Alex Line looks at the lessons to be learned from the ruling.’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Chelmsford City Council has prosecuted a landlord who unlawfully evicted a family of five from their home in Chelmsford, Essex, it has been reported.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An MP watching porn in the House of Commons and inappropriate comments made about the deputy leader of the Labour party’s legs: not even the place where our legislation is made appears to be immune from the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.’
OUP Blog, 25th May 2022
Source: blog.oup.com
‘Calling a man “bald” is sexual harassment, an employment tribunal has ruled. Hair loss is much more prevalent among men than women so using it to describe someone is a form of discrimination, a judge has concluded. Commenting on a man’s baldness in the workplace is equivalent to remarking on the size of a woman’s breasts, the finding suggests.’
The Guardian, 13th May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been found guilty of threatening a Labour MP after he held a makeshift gallows with a noose outside parliament and said: “This is what we do to traitors.”’
The Guardian, 3rd May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Anis Ali, a Muslim, worked for the Heathrow Express which was at the relevant time run by the first respondent, Heathrow Express Operating Company Ltd. The second respondent, Redline Assured Security Ltd, was responsible for carrying out security checks at the airport and the Heathrow Express stations. The checks involved creating and leaving suspicious objects to test how security officers responded to them, and in August 2017 it carried out a test using a bag containing a box, some electric cable and, visible at the top, a piece of paper with the words “Allahu Akbar” written in Arabic. Subsequently, the Operating Company sent an e-mail reporting on the results of the test and including images of the bag and the note to a group of employees – including Mr Ali.’
Law & Religion UK, 19th April 2022
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Matthew Hardy so frightened some of his victims that they slept with weapons. Although he was known to the police – and even prosecuted – it was more than a decade before he was jailed.’
The Guardian, 30th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com