{"id":123973,"date":"2019-12-19T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/19\/landmarks-in-law-the-office-christmas-party-that-ended-in-court\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:55:13","slug":"landmarks-in-law-the-office-christmas-party-that-ended-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123973","title":{"rendered":"Landmarks in law: the office Christmas party that ended in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the festive fun goes too far, employers may find themselves liable for their staff\u2019s raucous behaviourIt\u2019s Christmas party season, which for many workers means pulling on their festive jumpers and having a few glasses of warm prosecco with colleagues at the office bash. But the fun can sometimes leave bosses with more than just a headache the following day, when the behaviour of their employees lands them in court.Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK 2019 arose from an incident at the charity\u2019s Christmas party. The event \u2013 which consisted of a buffet, some \u201coversized\u201d games, a ceilidh and a disco \u2013 was open to staff and guests who had bought a ticket to attend. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2019\/dec\/19\/landmarks-in-law-the-office-christmas-party-that-ended-in-court\" target=\"_blank\">Landmarks in law: the office Christmas party that ended in court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the festive fun goes too far, employers may find themselves liable for their staff\u2019s raucous behaviourIt\u2019s Christmas party season, which for many workers means pulling on their festive jumpers and having a few glasses of warm prosecco with colleagues at the office bash. But the fun can sometimes leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}