About
Emplaw Online is the leading online resource for British employment law. Our website provides almost 5,000 pages of comprehensive up-to-date information, covering all aspects of employment law, from Age Discrimination to Unfair Dismissal, more technical topics such as TUPE and Data Protection, and major developments such as the Equality Act 2010. We also provide summaries of employment law cases with links through to full text judgments.
Our unique e-PSL facility ensures that the most recent news, cases, legislation and all other materials relating to British employment law are made available to all our subscribers, via a weekly email newsletter. This highlights the most important recent developments, and is incorporated into the news archive on the Emplaw Online website itself.
As a subscriber, you will also gain access to our powerful employment law-specific search engine. Not only does it search through our own information and archives, but it also trawls through thousands of employment law cases from all the main courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal. You can also use it to find everything from legislation, codes of practice, consultation papers and official entries in Hansard to news stories.
Emplaw Online also provides various tools and resources, including legal forms, document assembly and precedents, and a Find a Lawyer database. Our latest addition is a dedicated conversion tool allowing a read-across from the previous anti-discrimination legislation to the Equality Act 2010 that replaces it.
A brief history
Emplaw Online first appeared on disc in 1993, evolving to CD-Roms and eventually going online in 1997. Henry Scrope, the founder of the business, began its development in the early 1990s. Henry qualified as a solicitor in 1968, before what we now call employment law was invented, after obtaining a history degree at Cambridge University. He was with Clifford-Turner & Co (now Clifford Chance) and Freshfields before becoming in-house lawyer for a private international group of companies in the City of London in the mid-70's. This job in industry gave him practical, in-depth experience of employment law over a period of almost 20 years. During this period, he designed and prepared content for an employment law computer programme, originally for his own use and as a study aid.
The programme became known as e-LOAD (Law On A Disc) and began to attract interest as early as 1993. Believing that accurately referenced law information presented in straightforward language would be useful to the educated man on the street as well as to lawyers, Henry formed DiscLaw Publishing Ltd and began to commercialise his employment law programme.
In the late 1990s, there was no dedicated website for UK employment law on the internet, and Henry recognised the internet as a two-fold opportunity. Firstly, an online version of the programme could make direct links to cases and other material appearing on the internet and secondly, it would make the programme more accessible. By February 1997, the entire programme had been modified and went live as www.emplaw.co.uk, the first British employment law site on the web. Within six months, users were averaging 50 per day. This number has grown to over 2,500 users per working day.
Company Information
Emplaw Online Ltd.
264 Banbury Rd
Oxford OX2 7DY
Registered in England and Wales with company number 02799073
VAT Number GB642071467
