CPD 1.5 hours

PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge

OBJECTIVES

Employment law affects tens of millions of individuals throughout the UK, although awareness of rights if often incomplete both on the part of employees and employers, especially where this is a fast-developing area of law in terms of case law and ongoing statutory / regulatory reform. Accordingly, sound knowledge of basic rights and procedures is essential across the advice sector.

This Zoom webinar shall look at:

• common types of claim
• pre-claim negotiation & conciliation
• settlement
• framing the claim
• procedure; quantum

DELEGATES

This Zoom webinar will be interest to non-legally qualified advisors, law students, trainees and solicitors.

SPEAKER

Jon Kiddie, Advocate, Terra Firma Chambers. Jon called to the Bar in 2020 following almost two decades in private practice, latterly as a solicitor advocate.

Much of his solicitor career he spent in law centres, including as Head of Civil Litigation at Legal Services Agency in Glasgow, and as Principal Solicitor at Renfrewshire Law Centre, where he served for eleven years, latterly as a solicitor advocate. His law centre work consisted principally of housing law, landlord/tenant rights, disrepair reparation, mortgage enforcement, employment tribunals and Judicial Review.

He has spoken at numerous conferences and training events, taught at the University of the West of Scotland, taken part in consultations on legislative reform, and had several articles and book reviews published, including in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. He has also served as an ad hoc reporter to the Law Society of Scotland. See the link below to view Jon's biography.

Jon Kiddie Biography