{"id":16598,"date":"2012-01-06T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2012-01-06T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T15:01:58","slug":"ruling-aims-to-deter-marginal-employment-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/ruling-aims-to-deter-marginal-employment-cases","title":{"rendered":"Ruling Aims To Deter Marginal Employment Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16614\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16614\" title=\"michael-barnett\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/michael-barnett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/michael-barnett.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/michael-barnett-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Barnett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A ruling by Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett might deter Bahamian workers with &#8220;marginal claims&#8221; from pursuing employment cases in the Supreme Court, rather than the Industrial Tribunal, a leading law firm arguing that it dramatically reduces the &#8216;costs&#8217; leverage they can exert.<\/p>\n<p>Higgs &amp; Johnson, in its latest client bulletin dealing with the award of legal costs in employment actions, said a March 2010 ruling by Sir Michael could &#8220;remove a tool from the arsenal of the vexatious litigant&#8221; seeking to pressure a company into settlement, as he declined to award legal costs to a wrongfully dismissed employee who one their case.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael did so on the grounds that the complaint could have been brought before the Industrial Tribunal, which he described as the mechanism created by Parliament for resolving employment-related disputes. Legal costs cannot be awarded by the Tribunal, so the Chief Justice reasoned that the employee should not be entitled to them as a result of taking the matter to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ruling by Chief Justice Michael Barnett could discourage the pursuing &#8220;marginal claims&#8221; in the Supreme Court rather than the Industrial Tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[153,151,72,49],"class_list":["post-16598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-business-2","tag-court","tag-employment","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}