Overview

Thompsons Solicitors have been working for the TUC and fighting for workers' rights since their inception. They are the biggest trade union law firm specialising in claims for compensation in cases involving workplace injuries and disputes. The firm has branches all over the UK and employs over 1000 people. This book presents stories, events and campaigns: for compensation, for workers' entitlements and political cases: the Poplar Borough Council case, the Meerut Trials of 1929, and others from the 1920s and '30s, many involving members of the Labour and Communist parties. It chronicles the development of the firm into the present and witnesses to Thompsons' involvement with the Labour Research Department and the NCCL - now Liberty. 'Fundamentally, Thompson believed in using his great skill and knowledge and courage as a lawyer in the interests of the oppressed against the rich and powerful, on behalf of injured workmen against insurance companies, on behalf of tenants against landlords, on behalf of trade unions and trade unionists against employers, on behalf of political demonstrators against the police, on behalf of the citizen against the bureaucrat, in short, on behalf of the poor against the wealthy, on behalf of the mass of people against those who sought to govern and control them.' O.H. Parsons

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Author:   Steve Allen
Publisher:   The Merlin Press Ltd
Imprint:   The Merlin Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780850366389

ISBN 10:   0850366380
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   16 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Foreword; Thompsons; The veins of greatness; Birth and Background; Conscience and Convictions; Joan Beauchamp; Biscuits and scary reds; The first major case - Poplar Borough Council; More scary reds; Early organisation and some family memories; Thinking has a colossal future; Mother Earth and Father Land; The Tree of Liberty; Dying for work; Harry Thompson: the man life and death; The King is dead; long live the king; People and offices in London; The opening of regional offices; Collective action - legal battles; Everyday Life in the Offices; The demise of W.H. Thompson; The New Firms; Industrial Disputes: Back to the Future; A national firm; Personal Injury campaigns and test cases; Employment Law starts to bite; Preparing for life after Robin and Brian; From 1996 - change, challenge and campaigns; More test cases; Thompsons Scotland and Northern Ireland; Robin and Brian Thompson; My story; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Acknowledgements. Illustrated throughout: B/w photos

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Steve Allen is a former partner at the Thompsons Solicitors firm, where he worked formore than 30 years.

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