Today it was announced that the government has been defeated in the High Court over the way it scrapped part of England's school building programme.
The education secretary's decision to axe Buildings Schools for the Future (BSF) projects in six local authority areas was ruled unlawful as he failed to consult on it.
A judge ordered Education Secretary Michael Gove to reconsider the move.
The government said it had won the case on the substantive points.
Mr Justice Holman, sitting in London, allowed the challenges by the councils, declaring that Mr Gove had unlawfully failed to consult them before imposing the cuts.
The challenge related to the revamp or rebuild of 58 schools which, if allowed to go ahead, would have cost the government £1bn.
In five of the six council cases, the failure was "so unfair as to amount to an abuse of power", said the judge.
Now this is not exactly employment law but quite clearly a worker can defeat a redundancy if it is not done legally. Stand by for some fun.
Justin Patten, Solicitor