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.
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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. |
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1st published 14
February 2008 (New Law Journal) |
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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. |
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1st published 12 May
2006 (New Law Journal) |
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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. |
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1st published
2 April 2005 |
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The danger of simplistic language,
an analysis of legal sentences and how the courts interpret documents. |
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1st published 17
December 2004 to 8 April 2005 (New Law
Journal) |
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Short basic precedents to comply
with the statutory procedures brought into force on 1 October 2004. |
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1st published 19
November 2004 (New Law Journal) |
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Notes on submitting an employment
dispute to ACAS arbitration and a precedent of the required agreement |
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1st published 29 March
2002 |
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Boilerplate clauses to deal with
the various situations envisaged by this act. |
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1st published 14 April
2000 (New Law Journal) |
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A precedent for the repayment of
contractual maternity pay of a woman does not return to work after maternity
leave |
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1st published 22
January 1999 (New Law Journal) |
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Indicative precedents of the type
of documents required under these regulation and notes about their use. |
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1st published 21 August
1998 (New Law Journal) |
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Precedents of rules for an
unincorporated sports or social club and short formation agreement |
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1st published 22 &
29 May 1998 (New Law Journal) |
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Precedents and noted for articles
of association of companies to regulate the balance of power between directors
and shareholders and between groups of shareholders |
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1st published 5
December 1997 and 23 January 1998 |
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Article analysing the various percentage
shareholdings required for different purposes under the companies legislation |
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10 October and 7 November 1997
(New Law Journal) |
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Conflict of interest on the
merger of two firms of solicitors |
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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. |
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24 and 31 January 1997 (New Law
Journal) |
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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. |
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1st published 25
October and 2 November 1996 (New Law Journal) |
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Note about the risk of infringement
and the use of a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency. |
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1st published 21
February 1996 (New Law Journal) |
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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 |
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1st published 14 June
1996 (New Law Journal) updated 6 August 2008 (restriction
on contracting out) |
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Precedent agreement for the loan
of a horse with explanatory notes. |
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1st published May 1995
(Horse & Rider, based on a precedent in New Law Journal 15 July 1994) |
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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 |
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1st published 25
November 1994 (New Law Journal) (updated for the ERA 1996 ) |
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Agreement to refrain from instituting or continuing proceedings
before an Industrial Tribunal |
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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. |
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1st published 17
September 1993 (New Law Journal) |
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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. |
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1st published 30 April
1970 (New Law Journal) |
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