Taking industrial action - a legal guide (September 2017)

Chapter 11

Rise in strategic litigation?

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Finally, the higher ballot thresholds may lead to even more use by unions of strategic litigation to achieve their industrial objectives, especially following the momentous Supreme Court victory by public services union UNISON in its judicial review challenge to the government’s tribunal fees regime (R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51).


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