Ideas are just the start

Last week I appeared on behalf of an employer in a four-day Employment Tribunal hearing to deal with a claim of unfair dismissal.  Not particularly remarkable at first glance but this was the first case that I had appeared in following the changes implemented by the government on 6 April 2012.  Nothing looked particularly different when we first walked into the Tribunal hearing room;  there were three seats behind the bench in the same way I had been used to in every other hearing I have appeared in.  What was different was that only the middle seat was occupied, by an E

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