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Septuagenarian racing pundit launches legal action claiming age discrimination

January 12, 2013

John McCririck, the 72 year old celebrated racing pundit who has been sacked without any explanation has launched legal action against Channel 4, seeking £3m in age-discrimination damages for public humiliation that he claims he suffered after being ditched by the channel. Mr McCririck was one of many long standing presenters who have been dropped […]

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The Charity Commission has been found to have spent three times in defending which they could have settled for with claimant

December 10, 2012

The Charity Commission has been found to have spent £107,000 defending a unfair dismissal claim by the former senior case worker David Orbison, according to information released under the Freedom of Information Act. The former senior case worker says that he had offered to settle the case with the regulator in 2010 for about a […]

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Employees taking any benefits offered out of an employment contract are bound by the contract rules high court

November 6, 2012

For employees who take up a benefit offered specifically to a person in their position in the company, they will be held to the terms of their employment contract, even if they had not signed any formal contract. The High Court ruled that if an employee were to use a benefit, which was offered under […]

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