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Fox and Partners have secured a legally-binding undertaking stating the government must pay back all fees to claimants if they are found to be illegal, and Unison will have an oral hearing on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The fees are just one of several employment law changes due to come in on Monday 29 July 2013 and will see those with unfair dismissal, discrimination, equal pay and whistleblowing cases charged up to £1,200 for access to justice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Other changes are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Compromise Agreements will be renamed Settlement Agreements<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td></tr><tr><td height=388></td><td rowspan=3 width=266 height=395 style='vertical-align:top'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;z-index:9'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="_x0000_s1034" style='padding:3.6pt 7.2pt 3.6pt 7.2pt' class=shape><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>This week's news has underlined the Tory's ideological favouring of businesses over workers, and the rich over the poor. Rabid right wingers (and friends of top Tory brass) Policy Exchange has a new </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><a href="http://www.educationinvestor.co.uk/(A(mp-vaO6-zgEkAAAAZmJmNDkxOTQtZDk5OS00MzhhLWIxMTEtYWMyMmI5NDZhYWEwQe6fus5GHMZbdbzVQE-bfRlhLuk1)S(q5xqeby0aymuqcbok1z1jyzd))/ShowArticleNews.aspx?ID=3423&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Head of Education</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> in the shape of Serco Director Jonathan Simons. Other Policy Exchange officials have included a former Special Advisor to David Cameron and a current advisor to Michael Gove.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>In health and safety, campaign group Hazards has distributed shocking information on G4S' choice of Health and Safety Manager for its Children's Homes. David Beadnall, one of three G4S employees </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/g4s-guard-fatally-restrains-15-year-old-gets-promoted"><span style='color:#A43F65'>involved in the death of a 15-year-old boy</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> nine years ago, has been given the position.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In brighter news, there has been some headway on the<span style='color:#A43F65'> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/unison-secures-oral-hearing-judicial-review"><span style='color:#A43F65'>two attempts to hold Judicial Reviews</span></a></span> on the government's </span></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td><td></td><td></td><td rowspan=2 width=275 height=389 style='vertical-align:top'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;z-index:11'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="_x0000_s1036" style='padding:3.6pt 7.2pt 3.6pt 7.2pt' class=shape><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Settlement Agreements will be inadmissable as evidence in unfair dismissal claims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>New rules for employment tribunals will be applied - including the encouragement of alternative dispute resolution solutions, the right of judges to strike out weaker cases, and the combining of pre-hearing reviews and case management discussions into a preliminary hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The cap on unfair dismissal compensation 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<![if !mso]><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Trade union rights</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>BIS order weak ICO investigation of blacklisting (24/07/13)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Govt to appeal EAT decision in favour of union (24/07/13)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Health and safety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]></v:textbox>
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BIS order weak ICO investigation of blacklisting (24/07/13)
Govt to appeal EAT decision in favour of union (24/07/13)
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0"><img border=0 width=100 height=118 src="cid:image041.jpg@01CE89F2.BA6E8820" align=left hspace=12 alt="ELU Liverpool cover.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_40"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Employment Law Update 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday 06 November 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This is the sixth annual Employment Law Update Conference organised by the Institute of Employment Rights held in association with old Square Chambers and the North West TUC. It is a must-go-to event for anyone with an interest in employment law and protection of collective and individual workers' rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=415 valign=top style='width:311.1pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_38" o:spid="_x0000_s1043" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="TUPE Update cover.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations" style='position:absolute;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:87pt;z-index:18;visibility:visible' o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations"><img border=0 width=100 height=116 src="cid:image044.jpg@01CE89F2.BA6E8820" align=left hspace=12 alt="TUPE Update cover.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_38"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>TUPE Update: The new regulations</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday 23 October 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Unison, 130 Euston Road, London<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our TUPE experts - both legal and trade union - will unpick the details of the new Regulations, including plans to abolish service change provisions, limit the applicability of collective agreements, remove protection against dismissal and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=461 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:345.6pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_41" o:spid="_x0000_s1044" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Labour Migration in Hard Times Cover.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:7.15pt;width:75pt;height:88.5pt;z-index:19;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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The Institute, working with academics and other experts led by Bernard Ryan formerly of the University of Kent and soon to be at the University of Leicester, is publishing a new book about the plight of migrant workers and this conference will launch this new publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=415 valign=top style='width:311.1pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_39" o:spid="_x0000_s1042" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="In Conversation - Dublin Lockout.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/%E2%80%98-conversation%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-evening-event-dublin-lockout-learning-lessons-centenary-year" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:1.15pt;width:95.25pt;height:70.5pt;z-index:17;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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The Irish TGWU struggled for better conditions which resulted in 300,000 workers and 27 unions being locked out of their workplaces. What lessons can we learn from this dispute and how does it inform our response to social injustice in today’s society.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/%E2%80%98-conversation%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-evening-event-dublin-lockout-learning-lessons-centenary-year"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and 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