Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
No formal notice of parental leave is required for an employee to rely upon those rights when it comes to automatic unfair dismissal.
The claimant was employed as a Supply Chain Manager from February 2019 until March 2020 when he was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy. The claimant brought a claim citing automatic unfair dismissal on the grounds that he wished to take parental leave to look after a disabled son.
The claimant had made informal enquiries about taking such leave but had never made a formal application. The respondent sought to strike out the claim as having no reasonable prospect of success on the basis that the claimant did not comply with the notice provisions
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