- Podcast Location:
- Download it here [file size: 20.2 MB]
- Law Categories:
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Employment Law
- CPD Points:
- One Point - details »
Due to the difference in guidelines between the SRA and the Bar Standards Board, CPD points are awarded differently for Solicitors and Barristers...
Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority:
Listen and pass the test: Gain 1 accredited CPD point (60 minutes)
Listen only, gain ½ a CPD point (30 minutes)
Regulated by the Bar Standards Board:
Listen and pass the test, gain ½ an accredited CPD point (30 minutes)
Listen only, gain ½ a CPD point (30 minutes)
- Cost:
- Standard rate: £25 - Corporate users will pay less.
- Length:
- 30 minutes of audio
(+ optional 5 minute accreditation test) - Streaming Audio:
- Yes Downloadable as MP3: Yes
- Contributor(s):
- Course Aims:
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This podcast is suitable for practitioners of all levels and will provide an update on recent developments in the employment law field. Listeners will get a clear understanding of a number of recent cases and their impact.
- Outcomes:
- After completing the course you will:
- Understand the key points in the recent ECJ decision on retirement ages and its likely impact in the UK;
- Understand the key likely reforms to discipline and dismissal procedures and the effect of recent decisions on compensation for failure to comply with a procedure;
- Understand the state of the law on agency workers;
- Understand the effect of recent decisions on the meaning of disability under the DDA.
- Accredited CPD Time:
- 30 minutes
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Sources and References:
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- To be added later.
This CPD podcast provides an overview of some of the current issues in Employment Law, including a review of the first year of the rules on Age Discrimination, with a review of the effect of the Palacios de la Villa decision, a consideration of the recent case law on agency workers and an analysis of where next with unfair dismissal law. It also analyses the important unfair dismissal case in McAdie v RBS and the disability discrimination decision in Patterson v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis.