[IER] REMINDER: The Law Versus the Trade Unions? Reflections on the Past and Strategies for the Future.

[Carolyn Jones]

A think tank for the labour movement

  
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The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and the Institute for Employment
Rights invite you to hear Lord Wedderburn QC and Jim Mortimer (former Labour
Party General Secretary) in conversation with John Hendy QC

 

The Law Versus the Trade Unions? Reflections on the Past and Strategies for
the Future.

 

As workers and trade unions consider how best to resist the impact of the
LibCon Coalition programme, this timely event brings together three of the
most eminent and highly respected experts in the field of labour law. 

 

Speakers will reflect on the trade unions' relationship with the law and
legal strategies. In the present context of a severe economic crisis and
increased attacks on workers, this meeting aims to equip workers with
lessons learnt on how to both use and confront the law in the struggles
ahead.

 

Thursday 27 May 2010, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at

Invision Suites 1 and 2, TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London
WC1B 3LS

(nearest tube Tottenham Court Road.

 

Admission free (£10 to legal practitioners requiring CPD points).

 

John Hendy QC is a leading QC in the areas of employment law, health and
safety, public inquiries and personal injuries. He has represented the
National Union of Mineworkers on numerous occasions, appeared in the
inquiries into the Southall and Ladbroke Grove train crashes on behalf of
the victims, and led the ground-breaking test case litigation establishing
liability for "vibration white finger" on behalf of British Coal
mineworkers. He is currently acting for Unite in the British Airways
litigation. He is a Vice-President of the Haldane Society.

 

Jim Mortimer was General Secretary of the Labour Party between 1982 and
1985. He played a notable role in the miners' strike of 1984 – 1985,
throwing himself into support for the miners and being given honorary
membership of the NUM in recognition of his efforts. Prior to becoming
General Secretary, he had been a national official of the Association of
Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, later to become part of the
Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (MSF) and now contained within
Unite. He was a trade union member of the National Board for Prices and
Incomes between 1968 and 1971, and was the first Chairman of ACAS.

 

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC is a distinguished employment lawyer and
legal academic and was Professor of Commercial Law at the LSE 1964 - 92. His
books range from The Worker and the Law (first published 1965) to Employment
Rights in Britain and Europe (1992), and Labour Law and Freedom (1997). In
1998, European Community Law: Principles and Perspectives, containing essays
by an international group of writers, was published in his honour. He is a
Labour member of the House of Lords and a Vice-President of the Haldane
Society.

 

With the kind sponsorship of Garden Court Chambers, O H Parsons & Partners,
Old Square Chambers, Pattinson & Brewer, Thompsons solicitors and Tooks
Court Chambers.

 

Further information: www.haldane.org and www.ier.org.uk.

 


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