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Amo | 0 Posts

16 Mar, 2019 14:03

Hi,

Just wanted to ask a quick question. I've always enjoyed employment law and the ER aspect of my HR role and would like to further my knowledge and understanding of it for my own developement and curiousity. I've got a PDF version of the Employment Rights Act 1996 which I am forever making my own notes on and read about legislation and how it's applied in tribunal situations.

I'm currently studying towards my CIPD Level 5 but wanted to ask what else I could do to learn more? I spend a lot of my time reading in my spare time but are there any formal courses or training courses that I could enrol onto?

After my Level 5 I can do my Level 7 (which is the long-term plan), but as I am self-funding it's not something I will be doing till at least 2020.

There is also the LLM Employment Law that may be an option but is there anything beneath this? Have any of you on these forums ever taken the ILEX Level 3 or 6 in Employment Law and Practice?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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David | 0 Posts

16 Mar, 2019 16:13

Hi Amo

May be worth looking at Postgraduate Certificates and Diplomas in Employment Law - they are often components (eg minus research dissertation) of an LLM but in a bit less scope and depth.

Otherwise, a good standard textbook such as Selwyn on Employment Law IMHO takes a lot of beating - especially if allied to careful study of free internet resources such as case judgment transcripts and employment law solicitors' and barristers' websites and guides
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David Perry | 0 Posts

16 Mar, 2019 21:26

I'll second Selwyn's book. Slightly out of date ones are still valuable sources of current information and considerably cheaper than new.

You could also try following the many employment law questions which are posted just about every day. The answers normally have a practical, 'how to deal with it in these circumstances', which by nature are of practical advice. Which is something most law books lack.
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Ray | 0 Posts

17 Mar, 2019 17:06

My personal favourite is Tolley’s Employment Handbook - but at around £160 it’s 1900 pages are well structured. Maybe worth sourcing an edition from 5 or 6 years ago on the second hand market.
I like Justice Elizabeth Slade’s writing style and had the good look to receive a complementary copy of the first edition on which a good friend of mine worked with the author.
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Peter Stanway | 0 Posts

18 Mar, 2019 07:18

Do not read legislation. My current and old Butterworths prop up my screen
Read a good textbook and focus on cases
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Nina Waters | 0 Posts

18 Mar, 2019 13:01

I did the Graduate Diploma in Law some years ago now, with a view to changing my career to working as a solicitor (specialising in employment, clearly). While I didn't eventually decide that I was able to 'start over' in career terms (seeing my children during waking hours didn't seem to dovetail with the life of a trainee solicitor), I've always been grateful for the strong basis in contract law, and reading/interpreting law that it gave me. I certainly realised that my introduction to employment law during my CIPD studies really hadn't been sufficient (that was a LONG time ago, and I'm sure the L7 course is much better now).

I keep toying with the idea of the LLM Employment Law, but am not sure when I could fit it into my life. I do find it fascinating though ...
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