In October we issued an article on the criminal charges that had been brought against the former directors of City Link Limited (in administration) for their failure to notify the Secretary of State of proposals for collective redundancies under section 193 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. This section applies where an employer is proposing to dismiss 100 or more employees as redundant within a period of 90 days or less.  In any such case notification has to be given before any notices of dismissal are given and at least 45 days before the first dismissal takes effect. Although the provisions under which the directors were prosecuted had been on the statute book for many years but they had not tended to be used but in this case a prosecution had been recommended by the Insolvency Service.

Following a two-day trial earlier this month, the former directors were acquitted of those charges.