Lecture and workshop materials. Blackboard

Assessed in one three hour written assessment

ELEMENT 1: NON CONTENTIOUS EMPLOYMENT LAW
1. employment status of a worker
2. employer's liability for a worker
3. employment contracts
4. roles, rights, responsibilities and liabilities of employers and employees/strategies to achieve client's objectives.
5. practitioner skills
6. research, synthesise and evaluate data.

ELEMENT 2: UNFAIR AND WRONGFUL DISMISSAL
1. unfair and wrongful dismissal
2. practical and legal steps.
3. breach of procedure
4. preliminary steps for employee
5. courses of action, attendant costs, benefits and risks.
6. appropriate nature and value of the claim and tactical considerations

ELEMENT 3: DISCRIMINATION LAW
1. discrimination
2. types of discrimination
3. documentation to pursue or defend a claim
4. legal reports and presentations within discrimination law & the European context.
5. research synthesise and evaluate the data obtained.
6. professional conduct issues

ELEMENT 4: TRIBUNAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
1. alternative dispute resolution, role of ACAS
2. professional, industrial and trade associations
3. costs principles, types of costs orders, advantage of conciliation with ACAS.
4. tactical applications within the employment tribunal process
5. tribunal procedure
6. commercial awareness

ELEMENT 5: TUPE AND REDUNDANCY
1. commercial employment
2. redundancy situation
3. implementing strategies to achieve the client's objectives.
4. causes of action, analysis of risks and benefits

Employment Law is taught within 9 x one hour lecture sessions and 9 x two hour workshop sessions plus a self study session. Additionally for students following a blended-learning mode of delivery there will be on line activities.

1. IDENTIFY THE COMPLEX LEGAL, TACTICAL AND COMMERCIAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN ACTING FOR EITHER AN EMPLOYEE OR EMPLOYER IN AN EMPLOYMENT MATTER, WHETHER IT IS CONTENTIOUS OR NON CONTENTIOUS IN NATURE.
Enquiry

2. IDENTIFY THE OVERALL NATURE OF THE TRANSACTION, THEN PLAN AND PROGRESS THAT TRANSACTION OR MATTER THROUGH A SERIES OF STEPS AND DECISIONS INCLUDING, WHERE APPROPRIATE, DRAFTING DOCUMENTATION.
Problem Solving

3. EVALUATE COMPLEX ISSUES BOTH SYSTEMATICALLY AND CREATIVELY, MAKING SOUND JUDGMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH TAKING THE APPROPRIATE COURSE OF ACTION FOR THE CLIENT IN RELATION TO THE DISPUTE.
Reflection

4. IDENTIFY AND PERFORM THE CRITICAL STEPS IN PURSUING OR DEFENDING A CLAIM MADE AT THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL OR WITHIN THE CIVIL COURTS.
Application

5. RECOGNISE POTENTIAL PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE WHEN ACTING FOR MORE THAN ONE PARTY TO A DISPUTE AND TO ACT APPROPRIATELY FOLLOWING ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION. Knowledge & Understanding

6. UNDERSTAND CLIENT CARE AND MONEY LAUNDERING REQUIREMENTS AND APPLY AN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING APPROPRIATELY WITH THE RELEVANT PEOPLE OR BODIES ON SUCH ISSUES.
Communication

7. DEMONSTRATE A SYSTEMATIC UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRIBUNAL PROCESS AND PROCEDURE AND TO BE ABLE TO COMBINE THAT KNOWLEDGE WITH OTHER COMPLEX ISSUES AND FACTORS IN THE PROVISION OF ADVICE TO THE CLIENT.
Analysis

8. DEMONSTRATE A SOPHISTICATED UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF BOTH EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CLIENTS AND PROVIDE CLEAR ADVICE IN A MANNER APPROPRIATE TO BOTH.
Commercial Awareness and Professionalism

9. IDENTIFY THE CLIENT'S REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS AS TO QUALITY AND TIMELINESS OF SERVICE AND MANAGE THOSE EXPECTATIONS DURING THE COURSE OF THE MATTER.
Commercial Awareness and Professionalism

We have two Employment Law modules on the LPC offering distinctive study routes: face-to-face delivery and blended learning. The topics and content for both modules are largely the same, as is the assessment (a 3 hour 'open book' exam, with advance information on the client scenarios and tasks). After considering the modern employment relationship, you have the opportunity to explore issues like employment status; formation of the contract; implied terms; equalities and discrimination; and practice and procedure. Attention is then given to job security and workplace change, including core topics like wrongful and unfair dismissal, workplace change, and redundancy. Practice and procedure feature throughout, and you will have opportunities to develop and deploy drafting and other key skills.