Accessing, Reading and Summarising Law

The assignment requires students to summarize the Employment Permits Act 2003 and a High Court decision in Hussein v The Labour Court & Anor (2012). The case involves an award of €92,000 to a Pakistani man for employment law breaches at an Indian restaurant in Dublin, which was quashed by the High Court due to his unlawful employment without a work permit.

Core Legal Skills
Assignment– Accessing, Reading and Summarising Law
Award to migrant quashed over illegal job status
By Mary Carolan
A €92,000 award by the Labour Court to a Pakistani man over employment law
breaches arising from his employment in an Indian restaurant in Dublin must be
quashed, the High Court has ruled. This was because his employment was
unlawful, as he had no work permit.
Irish Times 1st September 2012
A. Summarise the Employment Permits Act 2003 (30 marks)
B. Summarise the decision of the High Court in Hussein v The Labour Court &
Anor. (2012) (40 marks)
Total: 100 marks
Recommended Reading
Schweppes J. et al, How to Think Write and Cite – key skills for Irish Law
students, 2nd edit, Roundhall 2016.
Employment Permits Act 2003 and Parts 1 and 2 of the Employment Permits
(Amendment) Act 2014 www.irishstatutebook.ie
Hussein v The Labour Court & Anor (2012) http://www.courts.ie