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A slaughterhouse worker with 40 years' experience who was sacked for a "21-second oversight" has won his claim of unfair dismissal.

The retail giant Argos has failed to get a court order restraining the Unite union from calling strike action in a dispute over staff relocation.

A father has won his discrimination claim against his employer after being denied his full paternity rights.

A special psychometric test discriminated against a job applicant with Asperger's Syndrome because it put her at a disadvantage to other candidates.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed that claims by employees for unlawful deductions or underpayment must be made within three months or they would be time-barred.

Commercial contracts often contain clauses which seek to limit the liability of one party if a breach of contract occurs. It is important to understand how limitation of liability clauses work and in what circumstances this type of provision may be unlikely to be enforceable in the event of a dispute.

You have been talking about the terms of a possible deal for a long time but you are not quite sure at what point your discussions turn from contract negotiations into a legally binding agreement. In this article, Mark Glenister commercial law solicitor with JPP Law explains the essentials of contract formation.

If your business is owed money by a partnership, and previous efforts to recoup the debt have failed, you may now be considering what to do next. Businesses in this situation have several options but are often attracted by what they perceive to be the quick fix of insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, but as JPP Law explains, this option is not available to everyone and may not always be appropriate.

An employee can claim damages for the stigma of an unfair dismissal that made it highly unlikely he would ever find similar work again.

A company has succeeded in preventing a former employee from working for a competitor for a set period and obliging her to return confidential documents.