# Dismissal: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for Employers in Scotland

> Solution-Focused, Court-Proven, Answers to 6 of the Thorniest Dismissal Questions Facing Scottish Employers: Directly from 7 Top-Rated Lawyers

- Format: In-person
- Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- Venue: The Caledonian Hotel, Princes St, Edinburgh, EH1 2AB
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: Live Attendance £275.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/hrscotland25

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 Chair's Introduction: Dismissal: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for employers in Scotland
  - Chaired by Paul Smith, Broadway House Chambers
- 10:15 Bullying: How do you progress a performance management process when an employee perceives bullying and counters with multiple grievances, refuses to engage, or goes off sick partway through?
  - Answered by Noele McClelland, Thorntons
- 10:55 Word-against-word: How do you determine the outcome in word-against-word situations involving inappropriate behaviour and/or harassment between employees on official and unofficial work nights out?
  - Answered by Gillian MacLellan, CMS
- 11:35 Morning coffee
- 11:55 Neurodivergence: How far can you go in encouraging a formal diagnosis where you (1) suspect or (2) have been told that neurodivergence is the reason for an employee's underperformance or poor behaviour?
  - Answered by Morag Hutchison, Shepherd and Wedderburn
- 12:35 Exit conversations: How do you de-risk exit conversations with senior employees who have lost the trust of their teams or the CEO, or were simply the wrong hire, even though they may not realise this?
  - Answered by Euan Smith, Eversheds Sutherland
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Health and Meds: How do you handle employees whose health condition or medication impact their communication and capacity to participate fruitfully in performance-related meetings?
  - Answered by Jennifer Skeoch, Burness Paull
- 14:40 Maternity: How precarious is it to run a redundancy consultation for employees on maternity leave due to return soon? What if there are no alternative roles, or they refuse them?
  - Answered by Dawn Dickson, Anderson Strathern
- 15:20 Over-run
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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