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Daniel Brown has edited 3PB's October Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Matthew Curtis, Sarah Clarke, Simon Tibbitts, Stephen Wyeth, Karen Moss, Grace Boorer, Lachlan Wilson, Grace Nicholls, Andrew MacPhail and Charlotte Hadfield. The newsletter brings you 3PB news, recordings as well as our case and legal analysis. You are also invited to register to attend our 8 October webinar on injunctions, restrictive covenants and team moves. Click here to view the newsletter. News...
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The Legal 500 2021 Bar directory has listed a record ten of our employment barristers as leading Juniors in its latest edition, with the team achieving 15 rankings in total. Further, 3PB’s Employment and Discrimination group is ranked Top Tier in South Eastern, Tier 2 in Western and Tier 3 in London. The directory says that 3PB has a 'strong, client-focused employment group that is able to deliver strong advocates on short notice', with ‘accessible...
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Employment barristers Karen Moss and Grace Boorer presented today's employment law webinar on disability discrimination. You can view the webinar below. Karen gave an updated overview of liability under Section 15 Equality Act 2010 including the most recent authorities. She focused on how tribunals approach a claim of discrimination arising from disability encompassing: Requisite knowledge under s.15 cf. failure to make reasonable adjustments, considering Baldeh v Churches Housing Association of Dudley and District and Tesco...
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Joseph England edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Karen Moss, Daniel Brown, Grace Nicholls and Naomi Webber. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.
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Dr Gosalakkal v University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust UKEAT/0114/18/DA In a judgment handed down on 4 July, Karen Moss represented the successful appellant who challenged a detailed assessment of costs of over £80k in the employment tribunal. HHJ Richardson gave the judgment of the EAT which found that the employment judge had misunderstood the degree of overlap between (1) the whistleblowing complaints in respect of which an order for costs was made, and (2)...
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Karen Moss edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Mark Green, Sarah Bowen, Joseph England and Daniel Brown. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.
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An influential alliance of unions, charities and women’s rights group have campaigned this week to impose on employers a duty to prevent harassment in the workplace. On 26th June 2019 the petition was launched by the group called, This Is Not Working, including the Fawcett Society, Action Aid, Amnesty and Time’s Up UK. Their aim is the introduction of new legislation that would require employers to take preventative measures to stop sexual misconduct in the...
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Karen Moss succeeded yesterday in the EAT in Baldeh v Churches Housing Association of Dudley & District Ltd UKEAT/0290/18/JOJ, persuading HHJ Shanks that where the original decision to dismiss was for disability-related reasons, without knowledge of the disability, but the appeal decision, upholding the dismissal was for the same reasons, with the requisite knowledge of a disability, that was actionable by an employee claiming to have been dismissed because of something arising in consequence of...
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Karen Moss has successfully appealed a judgment which wrongly excluded all pre-termination negotiations pursuant to s.111A ERA 1996, when such negotiations were admissible for the purposes of determining whether there was a termination at all - Basra v BJSS Ltd UKEAT/0090/2017.
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Following Karen Moss’s successful appearance before the Court of Appeal earlier this year, the employment tribunal in K v CGDM Ltd has just given a judgment for the Respondent for costs in respect of the original hearing. The Respondent was awarded the maximum costs order within the jurisdiction of the employment tribunal - £20,000 - as a result of the Claimant’s unreasonable conduct during the proceedings
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Karen Moss’s latest article, “Post-Pnaiser protection”, an update on discrimination arising from disability after Pnaiser v NHS England and another, has been published by the New Law Journal. To read Karen, article, click here.
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3PB Employment barrister Karen Moss has had an article published on the impact of Wyatt v Hampshire County Council UKEAT/0013/16 on litigants claiming personal injury damages in the employment tribunal. See http://www.pibriefupdate.com/content/ and the Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal newsletter this month. To read Karen's artile, please click here.
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