People have adopted widely different attitudes and approaches to changes to working practices during the Covid 19 pandemic. Understandably this has led to numerous disputes between employers and employees; a fair number of those dismissals have been challenged in tribunal.

Not it seems a fear of catching Covid! Perhaps that’s not really too much of a surprise? The Equality Act 2010 allows for the protection of philosophical beliefs, and you may remember that this protection does extend to ethical veganism . The issue of whether protection extended to concerns about catching Covid and passing it on to vulnerable relatives was recently tested in the Employment Appeal Tribunal…

Apparently when it is exaggeration! This was the decision in Elgamal v Westminster City Council [2021] and it might be of interest to those studying tort.

Here at Law Answered we go through law updates every week to make sure that we’re keeping up with the law and can update our guides effectively. Some weeks we find there’s nothing much to note but we’ve just come across three really interesting tort cases and thought we’d share them with you in advance of popping them into our guides for the summer release dates.

A measure of damages in respect of a tortious claim is for “pain, suffering and loss of amenity”. Does that apply if a person is involved in an accident which sadly proves fatal, in all likelihood instantaneously fatal?

Well this is a thorny question and one which attracted our attention on a “back to work” trawl of recent cases ready for our next round of updates. We thought we’d share it with you together with our very best wishes for a great 2022.

If you’ve studied Tort law, you’ll be aware that claims in negligence must be brought within 6 years. But what if something else happens, years after that claim has been settled, that means the situation has significantly worsened for the claimant?

It’s trite law that an entitlement to compensation flows where someone’s negligence has caused you damage. But sometimes things aren’t quite as simple as they seem.

There have been several decisions regarding limitation periods over this last week and they are worth a quick mention of those of you in the process of studying the LPC. They could be particularly relevant if you are doing a Masters and addressing this issue in your long essay.

It’s been well documented that there’s been an explosion in pet ownership and there’ve been lots of reports of dogs being stolen and then re-sold – a real tragedy for owners and the animals concerned. Our attention was drawn this week to a claim about a “defective dog” under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 “CRA”.

Most of us find negligence cases interesting – for one thing they’re always relatively accessible and it’s easy (and interesting) to ponder the moral rights and wrongs of what went. We like to see if we agree with the legal outcome.