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#51

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by HisMajestyBOB - December 17, 2025, 12:22:03 PM

The new head of MI6 says the frontline with Russia is everywhere

It has been everywhere for years.
Or did those Russian dissidents in the UK just happento trip and fall on some Polonium?

And we finally have somebody in authority saying it out loud. Why is that a problem for you?

I'm glad they finally are. My problem is that it took so long.  And that it looks like there's a real threat of backsliding into complacency, if the West doesn't just lose completely when Reform and AfD win big and take over.

#52

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Syt - December 17, 2025, 12:20:27 PM

Fallout S2 has started on Prime. Some of the opening lines from Mr House feel a bit weird on Mr Bezos's streaming service.

But basically it just picks up where it left off last season. Some fan service to kick things off after the credits, but otherwise it continues its story lines and its mixture of high stakes drama, personal trauma, gory violence and dark humor.

I think I may have to play some F:NV tonight.

#53

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - December 17, 2025, 12:19:17 PM

Here is PM Harper making the point the parties who are concerned about floor crossing is the parties people are not crossing to

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSVnfczEXnJ/?igsh=MW50dXFqbTFoNXJ5aA==

#54

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by crazy canuck - December 17, 2025, 12:12:34 PM

At the risk of regretting furthering the discussion, I have a legal question. Does the below not count as accommodation?

9 At some point in 2021, possibly when she had yet to be diagnosed with
ADHD or indeed even referred for assessment, the Claimant disclosed to
Ms Straker that she sometimes struggled to prioritise work. It was agreed
that they would meet weekly on a Monday morning to run through the
Claimant's task list, with a view to identifying any workload or deadline
issues that she needed to act upon or required support with. Regardless
of whether this was before or following the Claimant's diagnosis with
ADHD, it evidences to us that Ms Straker was a supportive manager who
wanted the Claimant to succeed.

Law is obviously not my strong suit, but I am curious and would welcome clarification.

If this is the extent of it, there would have been no case. The damning part came later on after the diagnosis was confirmed.  The employer took more than a year to make any effort to accommodate the disability.

The legal bit here is the onus is on the employer to accommodate.The onus cannot be put on the employee to tell the employer what to do after the disclosure of a disability is made.  This is a textbook example of the onus being put on the employee, which is why I think this was an easy call.

#55

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by HVC - December 17, 2025, 11:57:38 AM

At the risk of regretting furthering the discussion, I have a legal question. Does the below not count as accommodation?

9 At some point in 2021, possibly when she had yet to be diagnosed with
ADHD or indeed even referred for assessment, the Claimant disclosed to
Ms Straker that she sometimes struggled to prioritise work. It was agreed
that they would meet weekly on a Monday morning to run through the
Claimant's task list, with a view to identifying any workload or deadline
issues that she needed to act upon or required support with. Regardless
of whether this was before or following the Claimant's diagnosis with
ADHD, it evidences to us that Ms Straker was a supportive manager who
wanted the Claimant to succeed.

Law is obviously not my strong suit, but I am curious and would welcome clarification.

#56

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - December 17, 2025, 11:53:48 AM

It is short because it is a slam dunk case.  The fact the disability was disclosed is in the last sentence of the first paragraph.

Maybe - but most tribunal decisions are short.

Edit: I didn't mean it as a judgement - just to flag as people may want to read it v a 150+ page decision

#57

Off the Record / Re: Trump's Venezuela Vendetta

Last post by Oexmelin - December 17, 2025, 11:53:26 AM

For sure.

#58

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - December 17, 2025, 11:53:15 AM

Decision makers don't hand out awards of extra damages for nothing and I'm not sure why the reflex of the general public as demonstrated here is to assume that the decision-maker doesn't know what they're doing.  Another aspect of social media that drives me around the bend.

There's a very significant trans v TERF employment case that's just been decided by the Employment Tribunal. Neither side is happy, both is going to appeal. It has been a case that has had national media attention.

I think it's very difficult to resist an appeal given that the judgement cites authorities but includes quotations that do not exist in those decisions. I'm not 100% sure that at least part of that decision was written with AI, but that seems to me the most plausible explanation for why it is inventing quotations from authorities that exist. That's a decision - from the same tribunal - with national media attention and both parties with plenty of funding to appeal.

There are, I think, a growing number of concerns around what's going on with the Tribunals system because there do seem to be some rather odd decisions coming out of them. That's definitely the case in the Information Tribunal which is the area I know best and has had a few decisions fairly decisively smacked down by the higher courts for betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of the law they're applying at first instance.

From my perspective I think there are ample reasons for people to cock an eyebrow at decisions by the Tribunals (I'd extend more respect to the higher courts - High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court). But I think "fools in old style hats and coats" (or wigs and gowns) deserve exactly as much deference as they were given by Peter Cook in his sketch on the summing up in the Jeremy Thorpe trial:

#59

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by crazy canuck - December 17, 2025, 11:51:50 AM

It is short because it is a slam dunk case.  The fact the disability was disclosed is in the last sentence of the first paragraph.

I am beginning to suspect the reason this otherwise unremarkable case is getting any play is because of the misunderstanding of what the reasons are actually saying.

#60

Off the Record / Re: Trump's Venezuela Vendetta

Last post by grumbler - December 17, 2025, 11:44:39 AM

You can't reclaim democracy with polls.

Squirt guns aren't much help, either.