Latest News
Review of Human Rights Act ‘unnecessary’ former Supreme Court President tells Committee
Legal experts have told the Joint Committee on Human Rights that Johnson's review of the Act will not improve UK law.
Court of Appeal hears Shrewsbury 24 case
The Court will consider the argument that 24 innocent men were convicted after a lawful strike in a politically-motivated miscarriage of justice.
DVLA bosses lambasted by health authority for cavalier approach to Covid-19
A briefing from the local Health Board has reported that it was difficult to get senior management to take the threat seriously.
Govt threatened with legal action over ‘power-grabbing’ Henry VIII clauses
The Good Law Project is warning that the government could rip up workers' rights without Parliamentary scrutiny
A third of UK workers may have no protection against unfair dismissal
Up to one in three UK workers are either on precarious contracts or have not worked for their employers long enough to qualify for the right.
Most voters want the socioeconomic duty to be enacted, poll finds
Despite promising to "level up" poorer areas, the government has refused to enact an existing law that is designed to do just that.
Nearly one in ten workers fired and rehired since March, research finds
Young, working class and BAME people are most likely to have been targeted by the exploitative practice.
DVLA head ‘misleads’ MPs over Coronavirus outbreak
The DVLA boss also appeared to blame one worker's lifestyle as the reason he has had to self-isolate numerous times.
Govt U-turns on workers’ rights review
Suspected attempts to weaken workers' rights originating in the EU have been scrapped after pressure from opposition parties and unions.
Two-thirds of lowest-income workers denied financial support for self-isolating, research finds
The likelihood of receiving support is very much a postcode lottery, the CIPD says.
Govt faces judicial review over maternity discrimination during lockdown
Rishi Sunak appeared to compare the plight of new mothers struggling on low incomes to people who had taken a sabbatical.
The EHRC is becoming a political instrument, former Chair says
The former Chair of the EHRC says Liz Truss' appointments to the body are weakening its independence.
