Four silks from separate chambers have strayed from usual custom to come together in a bid to create a detailed and publicly available analysis of the UK Government’s furloughing scheme. The collaborating authors include Littleton Chambers’ David Reade QC, Old Square’s Michael Ford QC, 11KBW’s Sean Jones QC and Caspar Glyn QC of Cloisters, all […]
The ever-expanding Paris office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired yet more lawyers from a boutique French firm, this time adding in employment and antitrust. The lawyers all join from Franklin; they are antitrust partner Julie Catala Marty, employment partner Claire Fougea and employment of counsel Marion Brière Ségala, who joins BCLP as […]
Summary of potential coronavirus measures that employers can take: Information current as of: 23.03.2020 Home office / telework Employees who telework are normally “on duty”, they are simply working from home. Hence there is neither a reduction of working time nor any compensation or subsidy by the Austrian state. This measure is applicable to white-collar […]
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking legal action against the UK Government over whether it has failed to protect the wages and jobs of millions of public sector workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The union has instructed Leigh Day and a four-barrister team from Old Square Chambers, as it brings the […]
Shoosmiths has successfully fought off a race discrimination case brought against the firm in Manchester’s employment tribunal. Bosede Sule, a former administrative assistant at Shoosmiths, brought 14 separate claims against the firm and its staff – but Judge Tom Ryan has dismissed the claim. Sule was employed by the firm for eight months, until she […]
“I always emphasise to pupils that clients don’t care about pursuing theoretical legal arguments no matter how interesting they might seem to lawyers.”
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has successfully defended a discrimination claim in the Employment Tribunal, which was brought against the firm by an associate. Ana Maria Knott brought a claim against the firm for indirect sex discrimination. It concerned her return to work in 2018, and whether Cadwalader’s policy of not reducing its billable hours target […]
Following The Lawyer’s analysis of gender instructions at the Bar, the Employment Lawyers Association is calling on firms to join its monitoring scheme.
Two barristers from No5 Barristers’ Chambers, the UK’s largest set of chambers, are to be appointed to Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel by the Lord Chancellor at a ceremony taking place at Westminster Hall on Monday 16th March. No5 has welcomed the news that Peter Goatley and Henry Pitchers will be appointed QCs, taking the number […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is delighted to welcome Gurprit Mattu to the Business and Property Group. Gurprit Mattu, called to the Bar 2007; and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) 2019 specialises in contentious banking and finance matters, shareholder disputes, contentious trusts, insolvency and regulatory matters. She has particular expertise in financial services regulation, litigation and corporate […]
A former Fieldfisher partner has launched a claim against her former firm in the Employment Tribunal, it has emerged.
Reed Smith has failed to secure a win for the BBC in the employment tribunal, as judges sided with news presenter Samira Ahmed in a discrimination claim against the corporation. Ahmed, instructing Thompsons Solicitors, argued that the BBC owed her almost £700,000 of backpay because of the difference in pay between her show Newswatch and […]