Course: Employment Law
Title: Advising Management on Legal Issues
Learning Outcomes Assessed:
By the end of this module, students will be able to:
1. Understand the core principles that underpin employment law in the UK.
2. Advise colleagues about significant legal implications of decisions, plans and proposals in the area of employment
3. Advise about appropriate action that should be taken in scenarios that occur in the workplace.
4. Take a leading role in determining an appropriate response when legal action is anticipated, threatened, or taken.
5. Participate in the preparation, presentation and settling of employment tribunal cases.
6. Continuously demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of developments in employment law and be able to advise about the implications of these developments.
Assessment Criteria:
Students should:
• Show an understanding of the relevant legal issues. Students are expected to identify all of the relevant issues, and not to add in issues that are not relevant.
• Refer to relevant statute
• Apply relevant case law. Students should not just name a relevant case. They should apply the case, so that the relevance of the case is clear
Give clear recommendations, based on the legal analysis that has been completed.
