Employment

Acas, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, has updated its guidance on bullying and harassment at work.

It provides two separate guides, one for employees available at www.acas.org.uk/ publications/AL05.html and one for managers and employers at www.acas.org.

uk/publications/AL04.html.

Both guides provide a short summary of the law, with examples of behaviour that might constitute bullying or harassment, practical suggestions, and a list of contacts.

Costs

Johnson v Gore Wood and Co (a firm), The Independent 5 February 2004 (CA).

The claimant's damages should be assessed at the date of trial rather than at the date of payment into court.

The court could not adopt a strained construction of Civil Procedure Rules 36.19 in reliance on the overriding objective.

A transcript is available on BAILII at www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2004/14.html

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