David Cooper is a solicitor practising in employment law and a former executive member of South Staffordshire Conservative Association. Employment tribunals, with due respect to their role in determining workplace disputes, have burdened small business for many years. The maximum unfair dismissal award was quadrupled soon after Labour took office and now stands at £65,300. […]
David Cooper recounts what it was like to be in the audience for last week’s Question Time. Click here to apply to join the audience and here to suggest a panellist. Last week I had the good fortune not only to be invited into the live Question Time audience, but also to be able to […]
David Cooper is a solicitor and legal & political fiction author, and occasional blogger. Follow David on Twitter. Confidentiality terms in Compromise Agreements, the legal documents commonly used when an employment contract is brought to an end, have come in for heavy criticism recently. What are these “gagging clauses” all about, and might there be […]