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David's classic car is a police vehicle used for royal protection duties during the Queen's 1977 Silver Jubilee. But his £7100 re-paint was done 'appallingly'. The garage has offered to re-do the job but it will take a year. He's asked for a 'goodwill' payment but was told: "You've got no chance mate!" 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
Jack's request to work from home to alleviate his ADHD and autism has been denied. Should his employer be making this adjustment? 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
Peter looked at a car on behalf of a friend and paid a deposit. Does his friend still have 'distance selling' cancellation rights? Daniel explains the rules if you act as an 'agent' for someone else. 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
Robert thought he was 'going to die' after an horrific experience at the dentist when ten teeth were extracted. But five broken teeth were left in his mouth. 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
Sophie's working hours changed after a re-organisation and her new shifts don't fit with her child care arrangements. Her request for flexible working has been rejected. Does she have an indirect sex discrimination claim? 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
James is being mis-treated at work and he believes it's because he got married. Daniel is 'bemused' but says it sounds like victimisation. 📻 LBC Radio - http://www.lbc.co.uk 🏆 MY MAIN WEBSITE https://danielbarnett.com/ 💛 THE BEST STUFF The HR Inner Circle - https://hrinnercircle.co.uk Virtual Employment Law Academy - https://virtualemploymentlawacademy.com HR Policies - https://policies2023.com Own-branded email updates for solicitors - www.employmentlawbulletins.com 💎 COURSES: Getting Redundancy Right - https://gettingredundancyright.com Chat GPT for lawyers & HR - https://danielbarnett.com/chatgpt/ Employment Tribunal Compensation - https://courses.virtualemploymentlawacademy.com/p/employment-tribunal Changing Terms and Conditions - http://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/changingterms Marketing your Employment Law Practice - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/marketing 📚 MY BOOKS Employment Law Handbook - http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk Resolving Grievances - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/grievances Constructive Dismissal - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/constructive Employee Investigations - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/investigations Deconstructing TUPE - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books/tupe All small books - https://go.danielbarnett.com/books 🎁 YES, IT’S FREE! Employment law updates - https://www.danielbarnett.com Employer’s guide to redundancy - https://go.danielbarnett.com/free/redundancy Podcast - https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast Sources of free legal advice (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfdykS5jtU Deconstructing TUPE (video course) - https://go.danielbarnett.com/courses/tupe 🌞 WHO AM I: I'm Daniel Barnett, an employment law and HR barrister. I advise and represent clients in employment tribunal litigation. I have my main barrister website (http://www.danielbarnett.co.uk) and work out of a set of Chambers in London (http://www.outertemple.com). I have a weekly podcast (https://go.danielbarnett.com/podcast) and am often asked to speak on the national and international legal and HR lecture circuits. I’ve written about twenty legal textbooks (the main one is http://www.employmentlawhandbook.co.uk) and run a membership club for smart, ambitious HR Professionals (http://www.hrinnercircle.co.uk). I present the legal hour on LBC Radio (http://www.lbc.co.uk), the UK’s leading commercial talk radio station with an audience of 3.1m listeners, every Saturday night at 9pm. I’m also a bit of a theatre nerd, and review theatre shows for Counsel magazine. ☎️ CONTACT ME: X / Twitter - https://twitter.com/daniel_barnett Subscribe to this channel - click ‘SUBSCRIBE’ above Tweeting @daniel_barnett directly is the quickest way to get a response. Sadly there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭, but I promise I read all messages. ♨️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This video is published by Employment Law Services Limited. The information in this video is for general guidance only and, although the presenters and publisher believe it was correct at the time it was recorded (October 2025), the law may have changed since then. You should always seek your own independent legal advice. Please note that for employment law, the law explained applies to England, Scotland and Wales. For all other areas of law, it applies to England only.
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