By Maria Ward-Brennan People should use their common sense when joking around colleagues, lawyers have warned, amid a rise in people taking offense to comments – and complaining to managers and the courts. The warning came after a Tory councillor was sent to diversity training for using a mock-Irish accent, over the course of eight years, to hail an Irish council official. One lawyer said complaints that went to tribunal would be thrown out if they were “spurious” but warned office behaviour expectations have sharpened in recent years. Wedlake Bell partner Stephen Ravencroaft stated that there…
