The Carr Review, subtitled ‘An independent review of the law governing industrial disputes’, has published its findings. The review was carried out by senior employment lawyer, Bruce Carr, after he was appointed on 18 November to investigate ‘alleged use of extreme tactics in industrial disputes, including so-called ‘leverage’ tactics, and the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to prevent inappropriate or intimidatory actions in trade disputes’. The stimulus to this was the Ineos-Unite industrial dispute of the summer and autumn of 2013.
On 5 August 2014, Carr scaled back the terms of the review because of the ‘increasingly political environment within which I was operating coupled with the lack of a significant enough body of evidence to support any recommendations for change’. The ‘increasingly political environment’ was a result of the Conservatives announcing their intention to change to the regulation of the industrial action prior to the reporting of the Carr Review. Consequently, the report ‘describes the process of cond
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