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6 Jun 2018 10:42
Barristers Chambers in LondonLaw Lane Chambers is a modern, diverse, progressive and a rapidly-growing common law set based in the Capital with Barristers that specialises in Immigration, Civil, Commercial, Bankruptcy, Housing, Professional Negligence, Employment, Family and Criminal Law. For More Information on our chambers more...
Rulings Could Change Nature of UK "Gig" Economy
Crucial rulings affecting thousands of workers in the fast - growing "gig" economy will inevitably lead to more challenges by workers in this sector who seek workers' rights such as access to reasonable adjustments and holidays. To put things into context,no less than 60% of self-employed people more...
Tribunal Can Hear Evidence about "Protected Conversation" in an Unfair Dismissal Case
The idea of "protected conversations" is to allow employers to enter into off-the-record conversations with a view to agreeing the exit of an employee. The "protected conversation" policy was introduced under s.111A of the Employment Rights Act 2013 and was a flagship policy of the Government's more...
20 Apr 2018 15:20
Stefan Liberadzki represents Employment Tribunal claimant who successfully establishes “employee” status for claim under the Equality ActThe Tribunal’s full judgment can be read here: EP v The Gym Limited In EP v The Gym Ltd, the Claimant (referred to here as ‘EP’) was engaged by a nationwide chain of low-cost 24-hour gyms as a “freelance personal trainer”. His claim for disability discrimination arises from the Respondent’s more...
Washing Machines, Oil Rigs and Waste – Health & Safety Investigations and Enforcement Update – Spring 2018
The new year has begun with three important appeal decisions that will be of particular interest to anyone practising in Health and Safety (“H&S”) law. They cover subjects as wide ranging as sentencing, enforcement notices and litigation privilege that are also relevant to a much wider spectrum of more...
19 Feb 2018 17:32
When Wrongful isn’t Necessarily UnfairWhen Wrongful isn’t Necessarily Unfair Unfair dismissal claims? We’ve all done a million of them. Maybe not that many but I am simply applying the same exaggeration that goes onto most Claimant’s schedules of loss. The Claimant wants to go into the nuts and bolts of the claim and to prove that he more...
14 Feb 2018 16:08
Wilberforce features in two of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2018Wilberforce Chambers appears in two of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2018, identifying the year’s most talked about disputes. Five members are involved: John Wardell QC, Andrew Mold and Tim Matthewson opposite Paul Newman QC in KeyMed Ltd v Michael Woodford and Paul Hillman, and Edward Sawyer more...
TUPE Review 2017
TUPE Review 2017 Introduction This is a brief round-up of reported TUPE cases from 2017 – perhaps not the most exciting year for TUPE enthusiasts. From my point of view, the most interesting cases are Born London Ltd v Spire (from March, dealing with provision of information); Tees Esk and Wear more...
Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017
Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 The GPG Regulations came into force on 6 April 2017. They apply to large private and voluntary sector employers (defined as those with 250 or more employees on 5 April of each year). Because of the Regulations, employers now have to more...
Grandparental Leave
Grandparental Leave In 2016 the government announced plans to extend shared parental leave and pay to working grandparents by 2018. Apparently a consultation was initially proposed for May 2016, and was also expected to cover options for streamlining the Shared Parental Leave and Pay system, more...
Employment Tribunals - Already creaking at the seams?
Following the Supreme Court judgment in July of last year in the Unison case it was only a matter of time before we returned to the previous state of a system in disaray. Notwithstanding the continuing impact of an unlawful imposition of fees we on the Northern Cicuit are now starting to have more...
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