It could be April 2009 before dispute procedures are removed [15-01-2008]

Dispute resolution rules are to be redrawn by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with an announcement expected shortly.

But this could not be achieved overnight and could drag on until April 2009 according to Ian Smith, the Clifford Chance professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia.

Smith told delegates at the CIPD conference in Harrogate that the dispute procedures had led to a 15% increase in tribunals since their introduction in October 2004.

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