Employment Law

Deborah J. Lockton was formerly Professor of Employment Law at De Montfort University, UK. She has conducted specialist in-house training courses for both companies and the profession and is the author of several books on employment law. She is also Editor of the journal Contemporary Issues in Law. Tom Brown practices as a barrister from Cloisters Chambers, London, specialising in employment, equality, and human rights law. He has worked as a Judicial Assistant to the late Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Senior Law Lord, and for the United Nations on human rights and humanitarian projects. Tom has sat as a fee-paid Employment Judge since 2013. He was nominated for Employment Law Junior Barrister of the year in 2018 by Chambers and Partners. Tom is one of the Attorney General’s panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. He has trained lawyers and judges in equality law at the Academy of European Law and has contributed to books on employment and equality law. Tom has appeared in seminal cases in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court on employment law including Buckland v University of Bournemouth [2011] QB 323 on constructive dismissal, and Haywood v Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 22 on implied terms and notice of termination.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Sources and Institutions of Employment Law
PART II: THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
2. The Nature of the Relationship
3. Terms of the Contract
4. Implied Duties in the Contract of Employment
4A. Transfers of Undertakings
PART III: CONSTRAINTS ON THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
5. Discrimination
6. Equality of Terms
6A. Whistleblowing
7. Employment Protection
PART IV: TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT
8. Termination at Common Law
9. Unfair Dismissal
10. Redundancy
11. Duties of Ex-Employees
PART V: TRADE UNIONS AND THE LAW OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION
12. Trade Unions
13. The Rights of Trade Union Members
14. Industrial Action.