Weekly Review of Developments 16/10/2020

One step forward and three steps back – not the Covid rules, silly: Strictly’s back this weekend! At last something else we can all talk about.

This week's top stories:

• In Coronavirus Employment-related updates new restrictions for NI mean that some of us will once again have ‘Coronahair’ styles.  You can listen again to a recent webinar with Joanne Lightburn from Jones Cassidy Brett Solicitors as she discusses the implications of the Job Support Scheme for employers.
  
  
• In this week's Case Reviews, Jason Elliott BL discusses a vicarious liability case in which an employer was not held liable for the 'practical joke' actions of an employee and, in the second case, the Northern Ireland