The Serial Litigant’s Hit List
04 / 12 / 2009
CSI and Dexter may be concerned with homicides and serial-killers, but here at Russell HR Consulting, we are concerned with something much more serious... serial-litigation. A new website and service – Serial Litigants – has recently been launched to try to provide some assistance to those dealing with tribunal litigation (see www.serial-litigants.com). It enables clients to perform a national search...
Your Entitlement to a Hot Potato
02 / 12 / 2009
Rights, entitlements, liberties and equalities; all terms we are familiar with in Western society.Legislation and legal charters dating as far back as the Magna Carter, have ensured that all members of society – from ordinary labourers to kings and queens – are bound by the law of the land. But with our modern-day, hectic lifestyles, we are less concerned with...
Don’t Let your Company’s Failings Hit the Headlines
27 / 11 / 2009
As the news breaks today that serious failings have been uncovered within the NHS, the Chairman of Colchester Hospital and University NHS Foundation Trust is probably wishing that more attention had been paid to detail and that his story was not headline news. Richard Borne was relieved of his post at the Colchester trust, citing poor leadership. It said the...
Don’t Let Kate Moss or Amy Winehouse spoil Your Christmas Party
26 / 11 / 2009
27thNovember. It must be about time for me to prepare for Christmas by grumbling that it’s all too commercial and it starts far too early (the sprouts have been cooking for several weeks now). In other words, I have a severe attack of bah humbug - not yet a disability within the meaning of the DDA, but give it time...
What Have Employment Law and Trouser Trouble Got in Common? Read on......
25 / 11 / 2009
I have always thought that I’m a Celebrity ...... Get Me Out of Here! is yet another televisual example of throwing Christians to the lions, except in this case, the lions would probably get galloping indigestion. Listening to Chris Evans holding forth about Ant (or Dec’s) hair prior to I’m A Celebrity started me thinking about sex discrimination related to...