Roderick Ramage

list of published articles and precedents on non-pension law topics


disclaimer

None of these articles or precedents is advice to any person and none of them may be taken as a definitive statement of the law in general or in any particular case. The author does not accept any responsibility for anything that any person does or does not do as a result of reading them.


 

He, she, yo! 

We lack a gender neutral third person pronoun.  Poets have long used ‘they’ for he and she, as do journalists and other woolly users of the English language (including, alas, a few lawyers who should know better).  Most proposals to fill the gap have failed at the starting line, but ‘yo’ might just have a sporting chance.

1st published 14 February 2008 (New Law Journal)

Can companies be trusted? 

Some aspects of Tesco law.  What Clementi forgot to tell us.  The black letter company law reasons why shareholders’ demands for profits must override public interest.

1st published 12 May 2006 (New Law Journal)

What is religion?

Thoughts on the distinction between religion and the manifestation of religion in connection with employment regulations, incitement to hatred, human rights and the Denbigh School case.

1st published 2 April 2005

Effective Draftsmanship – Parts 1 to 5

The danger of simplistic language, an analysis of legal sentences and how the courts interpret documents.

1st published 17 December 2004  to 8 April 2005 (New Law Journal)

Disciplinary and grievance procedures

Short basic precedents to comply with the statutory procedures brought into force on 1 October 2004.

1st published 19 November 2004 (New Law Journal)

ACAS Arbitration

Notes on submitting an employment dispute to ACAS arbitration and a precedent of the required agreement

1st published 29 March 2002

Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999

Boilerplate clauses to deal with the various situations envisaged by this act.

1st published 14 April 2000 (New Law Journal)

Repayment of Maternity Pay

A precedent for the repayment of contractual maternity pay of a woman does not return to work after maternity leave

1st published 22 January 1999 (New Law Journal)

Working Time Regulations documents

Indicative precedents of the type of documents required under these regulation and notes about their use.

1st published 21 August 1998 (New Law Journal)

Club formation and rules

Precedents of rules for an unincorporated sports or social club and short formation agreement

1st published 22 & 29 May 1998 (New Law Journal)

Directors and shareholders

Precedents and noted for articles of association of companies to regulate the balance of power between directors and shareholders and between groups of shareholders

1st published 5 December 1997 and 23 January 1998

How many votes do you need?

Article analysing the various percentage shareholdings required for different purposes under the companies legislation

10 October and 7 November 1997 (New Law Journal)

Conflict of interest on the merger of two firms of solicitors

Review in the form of precedent letters of issues to be considered when firms merge and have clients on opposite sides of transactions and whether they may continue despite a conflict of interest.

24 and 31 January 1997 (New Law Journal)

Mobbing in the workplace

Article based originally on Swiss and German experience of frustrated employees "mobbing" bosses, but adapted to English law and reviewing legal issues of bullying in the workplace.

1st published 25 October and 2 November 1996 (New Law Journal)

Solicitors in breach of copyright

Note about the risk of infringement and the use of a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency.

1st published 21 February 1996 (New Law Journal)

Transfer of undertakings and variation of employment terms

A critique of the Employment Appeals Tribunal decision in the St Helen's case: Wilson and others, sanders and Wallace v St Helen's Borough Council

1st published 14 June 1996 (New Law Journal)

updated 6 August 2008 (restriction on contracting out)

Loaning horses

Precedent agreement for the loan of a horse with explanatory notes.

1st published May 1995 (Horse & Rider, based on a precedent in New Law Journal 15 July 1994)

Written statement of particulars of employment

Check list of all items which must be included in an employee's statement as introduced by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 and now in the Employment Rights Act 1996

1st published 25 November 1994 (New Law Journal) (updated for the ERA 1996 )

Agreement to refrain from instituting or continuing proceedings before an Industrial Tribunal

Precedent of a compromise agreement as introduced by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 and now in the Employment Rights Act 1996 and notes on its use.

1st published 17 September 1993 (New Law Journal)

Will or Shall?

Use of these words in legal documents and introduction to the analysis of a legal sentence into its component parts. As relevant today as when first written.

1st published 30 April 1970 (New Law Journal)

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