picketing
picketing from the French for 'pike', this describes the practice of placing strikers between the worker and his place of work to stop him coming off strike or to encourage him to go on strike. Almost a century of oscillating legislation controls the practice in the UK. Generally, it is permitted if carried out peacefully and with a view to communicating information or persuading persons and is carried out at a person's own place of work. This latter phrase prevents picketing outside the target's garden and restrained the flying picket, someone who would go anywhere to help out workers in a strike even though he himself might not have any dispute with the target. Secondary picketing, where suppliers of the target become themselves targets, is prohibited. While the law generally does not prohibit299
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peaceful picketing, it has not created a right to picket; a picket stand- ing in front of a lorry and obstructing it peacefully to communicate with the driver commits the offence of obstruction: Broome v. DPP [1974] ICR 84. Picketing also must be in accordance with the GOLDEN FORMULAE. Many pickets are not illegal simply for that reason: a code of practice issued by the Secretary of State indicates that there should be no more than six pickets at any entrance.
- close company
- closing speeches
- CLS
- co-accused
- COD
- code
- Code Napoléon
- codicil
- codification
- cognates
- cohabitants
- cohabitation (with habit and repute)
- collateral
- collatio inter haeredes
- collatio inter liberos
- collective bargaining
- collective responsibility
- collective trespass
- collusion
- colourable
- combat, trial by
- comfort letter
- command theory
- commercial agent
- commercial court