Patricia Leighton is currently Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. She has researched and written widely on employment law matters, particularly for HRM practitioners. Her publications include "The New Employment Contract" (1995), "Discrimination and the Law: Fitness for Purpose" (2004) and "Out of the Shadows: Managing Self-Employed, Agency and Outsourced Staff" (2006).