Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work

Lizzie Barmes is Professor of Labour Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests are in the legal regulation of bullying and harassment at work, contracts of employment, positive action to promote equality and judicial diversity, as well as the empirical investigation of legal phenomena. Prior to becoming an academic, Lizzie spent four years as a government lawyer in the common law team of the Law Commission of England and Wales and six years in private practice as an employment, equality, and personal injury litigator.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Empirical Background to Behavioural Conflict at Work ; 3. The Substantive Legal Background to Behavioural Conflict at Work from 1995 to 2015 ; 4. Factual Themes in Case Law about Behavioural Conflict at Work ; 5. Legal Themes in Case Law about Behavioural Conflict at Work I: Overlapping Rights and the Snakes and Ladders Effect ; 6. Legal Themes in Case Law about Behavioural Conflict at Work II: Consistency in Applying Behavioural Rules ; 7. Legal Themes in Case Law about Behavioural Conflict at Work III: Consistency in Analyzing Employer Responses ; 8. Senior Managers and Laweyers on Behavioural Conflict at Work and Legal Influences ; 9. Senior Managers and Lawyers on Behavioural Conflict at Work and the Missing Collective Dimension ; 10. Conclusions

Very few scholars could have reached this level of empirical and doctrinal sophistication. Professor Barmes does so with consummate skill, and in so doing, she has produced a work that will surely rank as one of the `classics' of the discipline.