Blog Posts: May 2010

An interesting piece in the Daily Mail. A male lawyer was wrongfully sacked because his bosses feared they would be sued if they fired his female colleague while she was on maternity leave. In a rare instance of a man claiming sex discrimination, John de Belin won £123,000 in damages after one of Britain's biggest law firms 'deprived him of his livelihood'. Mr de Belin, 45, was one of two associates facing redundancy from Eversheds' property division in Leeds. The other was Angel....

So we have a hung parliament. This has already ben posted, but clearly this is what the parties should be thinking about.  The key to who will be the next prime minister and the governing party lies in effective negotiation. In other words, it will be the negotiation skills of the parties which will key in determining who forms the next government and the way this is done if (and it is an if) no party can form an effective government. The question is, do the parties have an effective neg....

With the general election coming up and much talk of possible hung parliaments, some of you may be interested in this post of mine on the Totally Legally Blog site. Justin Patten....

An interesting piece on a relationship counsellor's bid to challenge his sacking for refusing to give sex therapy to gay couples has been turned down by the High Court. Gary McFarlane, 48, from Bristol, was sacked by Relate Avon in 2008. He claimed the service had refused to accommodate his Christian beliefs. Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious grounds cannot be justified. He said it was irrational and "also divisive, capricious and a....