This research project analysed and compared the roles, resources and competencies of lay judges in Germany, France and Great Britain, where lay judges take up their role through nationally distinctive routes: nomination essentially by the social partners in Germany, self-nomination in Great...

This article considers whether there is a difference between the public and private sectors in respect of third-party intervention to prevent and resolve collective employment disputes. Based on statistics from Acas for the five years from 1 April 1997 and interviews with key informants, it...

The voluntary and statutory measures to prevent prison officers from taking industrial action are examined in the context of the measures adopted to prevent industrial action by other groups of public servants. The paper concludes that the government does not have an overall strategy on strikes...