Publisher's Synopsis
The third edition of this text has been designed for the individual employment law syllabus of the Law Society's Final Examination course, as well as a useful handbook for practising lawyers. Fully updated, it covers important developments such as the House of Lords decision in "Litster v. Forth Estuary" on the transfer of undertakings. It includes: the contract of employment, termination - unfair and wrongful dismissal, redundancy, problems arising out of the change of employer, overlapping claims, and procedure before industrial tribunals.;Each section concludes with helpful, self-examination questions and the book's value is further enhanced by the inclusion of relevant forms and the ACAS Codes of Practice, which are set out as appendices.
