Employment relationship breakdowns and difficult employees: securing a fair dismissal

In this webinar, we considered action which may be taken where it is clear that the employment relationship has broken down but a decision to dismiss does not neatly fit into one of the usual categories of conduct, capability or redundancy. "Some other substantial reason" may be a potentially fair reason but how do you secure a fair dismissal for this reason?
We discussed:
what is an SOSR reason for dismissal?;
what situations might amount to an SOSR?; and
unfair dismissal and SOSR: how to secure a fair SOSR dismissal.
Speaker biographies:
Lynne Marr:
Lynne is accredited as a specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland and is also an accredited mediator. She forges close working relationships with our team's clients and her commercial and straight-talking approach is welcomed by them. She works with clients in various sectors across the public and private sector in Scotland and the UK including public transport providers, universities, government bodies, investment firms and banks.
Lynne advises on all stages of the employment relationship from recruitment, through to termination and beyond. Her work is split between dispute resolution through employment tribunals and on advisory and non-contentious employment law. Lynne advises on equalities issues, business change, transfers and redundancies, industrial action, executive hiring and exits, investigations. She particularly enjoys working with HR professionals to support them on complex HR issues.
Niall McLean
Niall is co-head of our Government and Business team and is part of Brodies' Government, Regulation and Competition practice. He gives both public and private sector clients advice in a broad range of areas including: environmental law, governance, defamation and reputation management, public law and statutory interpretation. Niall has experience advising on the data protection and reputation management issues that arise from cyber attacks.
Niall is a solicitor advocate with extended rights of audience in the Court of Session and has extensive advocacy experience, regularly appearing in court for clients. He is also regularly instructed to manage significant pieces of litigation in the Court of Session including judicial reviews and statutory appeals primarily focusing on planning & environment, local government and education law.
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