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By Michael Scutt, 16/06/2010 1:41 pm

Cereal Litigants?

There’s no need to resort to garlic, holy water, crucifixes, or rosary beads to keep them away (we’re not quite in Bram Stoker territory yet) but there’s no doubt that serial litigants are a blot on the ET landscape.

Following on from my previous posts on the subject, there was some good news a few weeks back in the EAT on the issue of what a claimant has to prove to succeed with a claim for age discrimination.  The case of Keane v Investigo & others UKEAT/0389/09/SM, commented upon by Gordon Turner and Damian McCarthy in ELA Briefing last month[1], held that a claimant has to prove a genuine interest in performing the job advertised.  There can be no detriment to an unsuccessful applicant if they had no interest in doing the job in the first place.

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By Michael Scutt, 26/04/2010 3:12 pm

How not to Resolve a Dispute or Why Employees should never try to wear traffic cones

(picture right)  How Not to Resolve Disputes or Why Employees Should Never Wear Traffic Cones

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By Michael Scutt, 29/01/2010 10:01 am

Truly I can see the future. A few weeks ago I wrote on this blog about a website run by Gordon Turner and Damien McCarthy, the two employment lawyers who set up www.serial-litigants.com, designed to keep a check on those claimants who repeatedly bring claims against different employers (or potential employers) for the same thing – usually discrimination claims.  I welcomed the scheme but thought that it might hit problems with the Data Protection Act, which governs what information can be held on people and how it can be used.  Then, lo and behold, I received this email from Gordon Turner a few days ago;