Fans of the popular television series The Office will have noted with sadness the recent proposed dismissal of David Brent by his long-suffering bosses at Wernham-Hogg (others may wonder why nobody strangled him earlier).
Whether a fan or someone for whom the character of Brent is too familiar to be funny, Brent’s proposed dismissal in the penultimate episode of the most recent series, purportedly on grounds of redundancy, does raise serious employment law issues about how to dismiss somebody lawfully.
