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Employment Law Solicitor ⚖️ | Come With Me if You Want to Stay Out of the Employment Tribunal! 🏃🏻‍♂️⚖️ | Not afraid to use a film reference 🎥 to explain a complex legal issue 🤔

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28/10/2026

Today is my last day consulting through Woodstock Legal Services.

It's hard to believe that it's been over 4 years and 3 months since I first joined them – that time has flown by 🕙.

They are the firm where I first learnt that it was absolutely fine to be a human being 🧡 and a lawyer 👔.

As one example of that, I can count on one hand the number of times that I've walked through their door in a suit, compared to the number of times that I've walked through it dressed down in something more smart casual (something I've found that my clients – even my business clients – tend to prefer as well, because it puts them at their ease).

Thank you to them for having me as a consultant and to the people who brought me to the firm to begin with 🙏.

Since they know me as someone who is very much himself (fortunately with their support), to quote Lynn-Holly Johnson's Bibi Dahl in For Your Eyes Only (1981) 🚁🏹👩🏻🚖⛷️🧗‍♂️, it's a case of "Farewell, Mr. Bond, but not goodbye".

And, on that note, this is not the end of my journey as a consultant solicitor – not by a long shot – but more the next iteration of it.

Those who have known of my departure have asked me where I’m going to, but the truth is that I have been there for some time already, as I also work through other law firms.

If you need me, you don't have to go to the lengths of turning on a Bat-Signal 🔦 or asking Miss Moneypenny to track me down 📞 – my contact details are in my profile! ↗️

28/10/2026

When employee clients come to me with a settlement agreement 📑:-

😣 they’re often already at the end of what has been a long and exhausting journey;

🚧 the safeguards that the law puts in place, ironically to protect them, can feel like a final hurdle (and an annoying one at that) for them to leap; and

✍️ they just want it all done.

But most of them appreciate that this isn’t all just some formality that they “have” to do; it’s also there to safeguard their interests 🛡️ in case something is happening that they don’t want to happen.

Therefore, my aim in the process of advising on a settlement agreement is to make it:-

🏃🏻‍♂️ as quick as possible;

😌 as straightforward as possible;

🛡️ but not to skimp on the safety that the circumstances require,

because the importance of settlement agreements and how they can impact the people signing them isn’t something to be taken lightly!

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’ve received a settlement agreement from your employer and would benefit from this sort of help 📞📧💬.

26/10/2026

“Will Conversations about My Employment-Related Settlement Agreement still be ‘Without Prejudice’ if someone has been Hiding Relevant Information?”

Sticking with the crime of fraud, sometimes someone has a legal duty to disclose relevant information ℹ️.

However, if they fail to do that, whilst that might breach other legal or regulatory rules, it doesn’t necessarily mean that something fraudulent has happened.

More is needed to prove fraud and to lift the without prejudice rule in these circumstances, as we explore this week… 🔎

25/10/2026

Michael Giacchino’s score to Incredibles 2 (2018) 🦸👶🏡🚄😵‍💫🛥️ returns for week 130 of the work playlist 📱.

This time, I’ve chosen 🏍️ Track 7: “Elastigirl Is Back”.

Bob Parr (Craig T. Nelson) watches his wife, Helen “Elastigirl” Parr (Holly Hunter) speed off through a hidden exit from their borrowed luxury home on her Elasticycle to jazzy drums, soon joined by raucous trombones as she tears through an underground passageway, a surrounding forest, and onto a freeway, underscored by lower horns.

This continues as she heads down the freeway at full speed, the horns growing raucous again and joined by occasional bursts from trumpets and discreet bongos as she gains the admiration of teenagers, raising her confidence to be back crimefighting again. The horns and trumpets grow sassy as she speeds off into the distance.

The horns step back to a calmer, yet still seductive setting, together with a delightful strum of the harp and fluid high strings as she meets Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) at his private jet. Tenor saxophone is added as they take to the air and into the pink, fluffy sunset clouds.

Trombones, low horns, and tenor saxophone rise and fall, seemingly recalling another jazzy superhero theme from the 1960s (one with bat ears) as Deavor explains that they are heading for the metropolis of New Urbem, which he considers to be the perfect place to showcase how superheroes are still necessary in a world that doesn’t think it needs them.

Name your favourite female superhero! (Mine is Batgirl, by the way.)

24/10/2026

I found Ian Fleming’s 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice 👨👨🏽🇯🇵🥷👩🏻🏯 forgettable when I first read it as a teenager. Of course, it’s almost believable compared to the outlandish 1967 film adaptation, which was one of my introduction points to the world of 007 as a child.

Nine months after the tragic climax to the previous novel, James Bond is falling apart through grief and post-traumatic stress. The previously unflappable agent 007 is close to being fired, but M gives him a seemingly impossible diplomatic mission to Japan to prove himself, unintentionally sending Bond on a far more personal adventure.

Often described as the final chapter in ‘The Blofeld Trilogy’ that started with Thunderball 🤿 and continued in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service ⛷️ (the films were shot in a different order), this novel puts Bond at emotional rock bottom from its outset. We’re not used to seeing 007 as vulnerable as he is here.

There are two parts to the book.

The first part is a sombre, morose and, at times, shocking affair. It is dark and fatalistic as Bond, struggling to rediscover his purpose, is introduced to Japanese culture. It explores grim aspects of mortality and the value given to human and animal life. However, it is also a travelogue, diving into Japanese customs ostensibly (and embarrassingly, along similar lines to the film) to try and disguise Bond as being Japanese.

The second part of the novel is about regaining purpose and, whilst some of the more macabre elements of the novel remain, there is a focus on beauty, Bond’s determination against one of his most tenacious adversaries, and rebirth.

Overall, whilst it isn’t the best Bond novel – and I can certainly see why it was reworked into a space-age drama in the 1960s (although some aspects of it have been adapted into the Daniel Craig 007 films) – it is far better than I remember it being.

I’m sticking with 007 (albeit the cinematic Bond) for my next read, which is Raymond Benson’s novelisation of The World Is Not Enough 🌍, based on the screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein.

23/10/2026

“Why, on God’s green Earth, should I trust you?”

Brendan Fraser’s General Dwight D. Eisenhower demands of Andrew Scott’s RAF Group Captain James Stagg in Pressure (2026) 🪖👨🏻‍✈️🤰🏻🗺️⛈️🔫. A fundamental breakdown in trust and confidence between employer and employee might justify dismissing an employee for ‘some other substantial reason’ but, if it is linked to an employee’s behaviour or performance, it’s still appropriate for an employer to instead follow a disciplinary or capability process respectively.

🎙️📑 On Monday afternoon, June Hogan of Wildwood Coaching Limited kindly invited me to be a guest on her podcast. More details on that to follow shortly.

🔵🟡 On Tuesday morning, Sandra Blake of Blakehr and I caught up, chatting about preparation in advance, social media and networking.

💬🪴 Wednesday evening was Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce’s BH Banter event at The Botanist in Bournemouth for great chats with lovely people.

💬🍽️ On Thursday afternoon, Diane Bantten of Acquit Debt Recovery Ltd and I had a lovely catch-up lunch at The Lake Yard in Hamworthy.

At my desk, I’ve prepared my secondary social media content for December 📱, advised an employee on reporting a health and safety concern ⚠️, drafted my LinkedIn newsletter for January 2027 📰, advised an employee on their settlement agreement 📑 and negotiated amendments to it with their employer 💬, completed training on recognising and avoiding payment fraud 💷 and the aims of ensuring data security 🔒 as part of Cyber Security Awareness Week 2026, completed training on employment law considerations and academic freedoms in higher education 🎓, been arranging a Christmas thank you for my HR professional retainer clients 🎄, and continued with the admin concerning the change in my business happening next week ⌨️.

How would you react to a loss of trust?

22/10/2026

A Job Offer ✉️ is more likely to be a Contract 📜 Where Something has Already been Exchanged 🤝 between You and the Incoming Employee.

Legally, this is known as ‘consideration’.

It can take many forms, although often (but not always) it involves money 💷.

Consideration before the employee has started might include:-

💷 promising a higher salary before the employment has actually started;

📜 giving the incoming employee better contractual terms than others in comparable roles; and

✈️ paying relocation costs

as just three examples.

All of these might make your job offers more formal as legal documents than you perhaps intend them to be, as we explore this week…

21/10/2026

Is it Improper to ‘Ambush’ an Employee into having a ‘Protected Conversation’? 🛡️💬🛡️

Protected conversations 🛡️💬🛡️ typically happen when an employer and an employee are negotiating how the employee’s employment will end (although, as mentioned last week, they only provide protection 🛡️ against information that might be relevant to a claim of ‘ordinary’ unfair dismissal).

These sorts of conversations often also happen with very little warning in advance ⚠️.

As we explore this week, understanding whether inappropriate behaviour in a conversation means that it is no longer a protected conversation ❌🛡️💬🛡️❌ means looking at more than if it is just an ‘ambush’…

19/10/2026

“Will Conversations concerning My Employment-Related Settlement Agreement still be ‘Without Prejudice’ if something has been Said or Done that is Untrue?”

Importantly, this concerns what is known as a ‘false representation’ related to the crime of fraud.

Not everything that is said or done relating to your settlement agreement that either is untrue or might be untrue will be fraud; it still has to meet the legal requirements of the crime of fraud 📋.

Therefore, it’s important to understand when something that either is or might be untrue is likely to be fraud.

Watch this week’s video to learn more about that… ▶️

Address

Richard Hiron Trading As The Hironator, Oxford Point, 19 Oxford Road
Bournemouth
BH88GS

Opening Hours

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Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
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