Author Archives: Darren Newman

About Darren Newman

Employment law consultant, trainer, writer and anorak

Why the Apprentice Lost

Posted on April 12, 2013

The decision in English v Amshold Group Ltd is out and you can read the whole thing here: This is the case in which former Apprentice winner Stella English sued for constructive dismissal. I blogged here how it was difficult … Continue reading →

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An Insult to Christians? The Mail’s Insult to Our Intelligence

Posted on April 8, 2013

This morning’s front page of the Daily Mail is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night. There is a particular kind of deliberate stupidity – a boneheaded, almost joyous, refusal to understand or engage with an argument … Continue reading →

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The Apprentice and the Employment Tribunal

Posted on March 9, 2013

I quite enjoy watching The Apprentice, but I find it best to think of it as a work of fiction put together by editing footage of actual events. Clearly situations are engineered by producers in order to generate conflict and … Continue reading →

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Dealing with allegations of harassment

Posted on February 24, 2013

Normally I blog about employment law stories in the news, but this post is an exception. For no particular reason I thought I’d share a common question I get when running a course on discrimination and harassment together with the … Continue reading →

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Whistleblowing and ‘gagging clauses’

Posted on February 18, 2013

Last week, the legal protection given to whistleblowers came under the spotlight with the case of Gary Walker, a former Chief Executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust. He claims that he was forced out of his job because of his … Continue reading →

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Eweida & Co: the Decision

Posted on January 15, 2013

Well the judgement is out and you can read it in full here. It’s actually quite readable as these things go. We will be digesting the meaning and implications of the decision for some time to come. In the meantime, on … Continue reading →

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Eweida & Co – the four big issues

Posted on January 14, 2013

Tomorrow the European Court of Human Rights hands down its decision in the case of four UK applicants claiming a breach of their rights under the Convention to manifest their religious beliefs. Yesterday I set out the bare facts of … Continue reading →

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Eweida & co – the facts

Posted on January 13, 2013

So on Tuesday we will get an important ruling from the European Court of Human Rights on four UK religious discrimination cases.  Actually there are two cases and four claimants. Eweida and Chaplin are the first case, Ladele and McFarlane … Continue reading →

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Employers must justify requiring Christians to work on a Sunday (and why that wasn’t the headline in the Telegraph)

Posted on January 11, 2013

Next Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights rules on the cases of Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane. The case is likely to be quite complicated and I plan to read it very carefully and give it some serious thought … Continue reading →

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The Myth of Gold-Plating

Posted on January 3, 2013

Gold-plating is such a clever term – I wish I’d thought of it. In the employment law context it refers to over-implementing EU rules so that the UK law is more burdensome than it needs to be. When a set … Continue reading →

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