It’s been a big month in the world of employment law, notes Ian Smith
The last month has seen major legislative changes, with several provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 coming into force, the issuing of the new Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure (to come into force on 29 July) and the publication of a Deregulation Bill. It has to be said that the portents for the latter are hopefully to be better than the attempt at such legislation in the mid-1990s when an empowering Act only led to one deregulation order, which in relation to employment law only repealed two provisions—the Home Work (Lampshades) Order 1929 and the Horizontal Milling Machines (Amendment) Regulations 1934, both of which had of course been holding British industry back for years. Against such a backdrop it might be expected that case law would seem relatively sidelined, but the three cases below each make important contributions to the law in their areas.
Wide discretion for surveillance
Issues of covert surveillance can be seen regularly in the press in relation to its use to expose
