Edition 4300: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Officers and civilian employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland had, since the introduction of the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (“WTR (NI) 1998”), been paid their basic pay while on annual leave (i.e. without having regard to overtime and certain allowances), whereas the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to article 7 of the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC had evolved to require that workers be paid their “normal pay” during such leave. This only came to the attention of the Appellants following delivery of the decision in Bear Scotland Ltd v Fulton [2015] ICR (EAT). The Respondents began presenting their complaints for unlawful deductions from pay and underpayments of holiday pay to the Industrial Tribunal in 2015.
Focus of the Day Legal News: A High Court judge has dismissed a last-minute attempt to adjourn a trial despite what he acknowledged had been a ‘lazy approach’ to compiling the trial bundle. Mr Justice Constable said the consequences of cancelling a trial due for this week in Innovate Pharmaceuticals Ltd v University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation were too severe and it was not justifiable to postpone until spring 2024 at the earliest. Full story
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