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3PB's specialist employment and discrimination barristers advise employers and employees across the whole range of employment law issues. With 25 barristers operating from seven centres across the UK the team has the specialist knowledge and skills to advise and represent you. Here the team have gathered together some employment resources to provide a hub of legal knowledge, articles, newsletters, videos and podcasts. Please subscribe to receive invitations, news and updates from our specialist barristers.

Articles from 3PB employment law barristers

All the latest articles from 3PB's employment and discrimination team.

Visit our library of articles, case analyses and views written by members of our specialist employment law and discrimination team of experts.

Our barristers advise on and represent clients across the whole range of employment issues including unfair dismissal, discrimination, directors' duties, injunctions, investigations, remuneration, bonuses and notice pay, restrictive covenants, Transfer of Undertakings, whistleblowing, working time, holiday and sickness.

EAT considers meaning of a protected act under s27(2)(c), namely ‘doing any other thing for the purposes of or in connection with’ the EQA

Andrew MacPhail analyses Leighton v Renfrewshire Council [2026] EAT 95, noting that s27(2)(c) is drafted using broad terms and without express limitation. Employers should thus take care that a worker has not performed a protected act before taking action.

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Were Wetherspoons vicariously liable for an assault committed by security staff employed by a separate company?

Eaindra Cho considers the Court of Appeal's judgment in Burger v Risk Solutions BG Limited and J D Wetherspoon PLC [2026] EWCA Civ 804, with its useful summary of the law dealing with vicarious liability.

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"I'm not represented — I just used an app": Grapple Law, AI claim generators, and what respondent solicitors need to know

Emma McIlveen, writes about the new breed of platform, which is quietly reshaping employment tribunal practice. Grapple Law, marketed as an AI-powered legal platform for individuals and small businesses, allows users to generate ET1 claims, draft legal letters, and respond...

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Training fee clawback scheme was an unreasonable restraint of trade and unenforceable

Craig Ludlow analyses Geeks Limited v Watts [2026] EWCA Civ 889, a case which makes it clear that clawback clauses need to be carefully drafted to show that repayment is properly linked to circumstances that justify the investment made, and...

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