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Over the last three decades, the UK fishing industry has faced a steady decline in full-time, domestic fishers – a trend largely attributed to the difficulty of attracting local workers to replace an ageing workforce (Seafish, 2025). This recruitment crisis stems from the demanding physical conditions…
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On 7 April 2026, the Fair Work Agency (FWA) officially launched as an executive agency of the Department of Business and Trade. The FWA brings together three existing enforcement bodies—the National Minimum Wage Unit, the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority—as well as the body…
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In Kemi Badenoch’s Speech to the CBI of 28 November 2025, the leader of the opposition declared that the Employment Rights Bill then before Parliament
“is a 330-page assault on flexible working written in the TUC’s headquarters designed to drag Britain back to a world where unions call…
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Amendment of applications to the employment tribunals is usually a matter for the discretion of the tribunal and raises no point of law for appeal. Rarely have two cases (Rice v Wicked Vision [2025] EWCA Civ 1466) about an amendment of applications caused so much…
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At the end of January 2026, the Upper Tax Tribunal decided that severe baldness in women is a disability. I first wrote about the illogicality of equality law’s approach to baldness in 2020. Since then, there have been several judgments attempting – via different mechanisms and…
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I would like to thank Professor Valerio de Stefano, Professor Douglas Brodie, Dr Zoe Adams and Dr Steve Riley for all their help and support in developing these ideas.
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In this blog, I wish to set out the importance of considerations of epistemic (in)justice to labour law:…
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Last summer, a woman and a man were embracing blissfully at a Coldplay concert when they were caught by a ‘kiss cam’, a camera that is used in concerts to capture and show on a big screen people who are kissing during a performance. It is supposed…
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Both human rights law and discrimination law share a concern to ensure respect for the dignity and autonomy of individuals. Yet they pursue those shared values on parallel tracks through separate pieces of legislation – the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010). At…
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Some British media outlets ran stories in April 2025 on how a regional Police Force (West Yorkshire) has put ‘applications from white Brits on hold’ and how the Chief Constable wants to discriminate against white candidates (Foreman, 2025; Bolton & Martin, 2025; Siddell, 2025).…
What did the Supreme Court decide in For Women Scotland? The case concerned quotas in the representation of women in public boards in Scotland, under the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018. It was brought on appeal by For Women Scotland Ltd, a feminist organisation campaigning for women’s and children’s rights. The…
