LAW BITES
‘Hold on boss’ Employment tribunal awards are increasing by 8.9% where the axe, or other appropriate event, falls on or after 6 April 2024. The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2024 (SI 2024/213) does the annual inflationary favour to employees and will see, for example, the unfair dismissal compensatory award limit rising to £115,115 and the notorious one week’s pay—used for the calculation of the basic and additional unfair dismissal awards and redundancy payments—up to £700.
Patience for the patients Fixed recoverable costs in unissued clinical negligence claims look almost certain to wait until October 2024. They are expected to be up for consideration at next month’s rule committee meeting.
Police disclosure There is a new protocol for police disclosure of information between family and criminal agencies and jurisdictions in cases of alleged child abuse and linked criminal and care proceedings. It applies as from 1 March 2024 (replacing the 2013 version) to private
