Employment and discrimination News

Sarah Clarke has edited 3PB's latest Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Simon Tibbitts, Grace Nicholls, Daniel Brown, and Grace Boorer. The newsletter provides a round up of the latest employment law news, case law reviews from our leading barristers; and an update on the latest in our series of webinars and our new recorded case law updates. Click here to view the newsletter. News and topics reviewed include: 3PB cautiously reopens offices New:...

3PB Barristers have created a dedicated webpage on its website to act as a hub for the many articles, briefings and webinar and podcast recordings about lockdown laws and regulations as well as practical issues like court attendance, e-bundles, remote and hybrid hearings. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to create employment, contractual and other legal challenges which are in many ways unprecedented. The impact of the virus is being felt, and in response, 3PB have...

3PB’s employment and discrimination barrister Simon Tibbitts was instructed by law firm Clarks Legal LLP to represent the claimant, a hugely successful IT sales executive, before the London Central employment tribunal in a final hearing lasting over 6 days in December 2019. The claimant, Nadine Lee, brought several claims against her ex-employer Splunk Services UK, which is part of a US multinational technology company based in San Francisco. Splunk were represented by Jane Mulcahy QC...

Gareth Graham has edited 3PB's latest Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Katherine Anderson, Sarah Clarke, and Naomi Webber. The newsletter provides a round up of the latest employment law news, case law reviews from our leading barristers; and an update on the latest in our series of webinars and our new recorded case law updates. Click here to view the newsletter. News and topics reviewed include: Tribunals update Evaluation of court and tribunal...

Gareth Graham reports on two important appeals which took place this month. Both were live-streamed from the Supreme Court, and the judgments will be promulgated later in the year. The first, Uber v Aslam and others, concerns the well-known private hire vehicle booking service. Journeys are booked through a smartphone app, which connects passengers to drivers. The drivers contend that, during the periods covered by their claims, they were “workers” for the purposes of the...

Following the publication of an independent evaluation of HMCTS video hearings, Employment Barrister Gareth Graham briefly compares the 3PB team's experiences with the research's key findings. The research reports on a process evaluation of the user experience of video hearings in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber). The pool of data is limited, and the pilot used an early technical product to test the concept of video hearings, so it is perhaps of limited direct relevance...

It has now been a full month since tribunals reopened their doors to in-person hearings on 29 June 2020. Employment barrister Gareth Graham provides an update of what has changed since the reopening. During the past month, guidance as to how those in-person hearings should operate has not changed to any significant degree. On a practical level, hearing venues have taken steps to allow for social distancing. For example, at Reading, two of the four hearing rooms...

3PB barristers Naomi Webber and Katherine Anderson​ bring you another chance to see this webinar - first broadcast on 9 July 2020 - in which Katherine and Naomi discuss Religion and Belief in the Workplace, the issues arising and the implications of relevant case law.  

3PB employment barristers Naomi Webber and Daniel Brown bring you a round-up of relevant case law updates in this 25-minute briefing. During this recorded case law update Naomi and Daniel outline the most recent decisions and offer their thoughts on the implications for practitioners. For further information about employment issues or for enquiries contact Russell Porter or call 01865 793 736.

Faizul Azman has edited 3PB's latest Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Grace Boorer, Joseph England, Craig Ludlow, Katherine Anderson, Naomi Webber, Daniel Brown and Grace Nicholls. The newsletter provides a round up of the latest employment law news, case law reviews from our leading barristers; and an update on the latest in our series of webinars and our new recorded case law updates. Click here to view the newsletter News and topics reviewed...

As 3PB find themselves returning to Tribunals in-person, Joseph England outlines members’ experiences and key points to bear in mind as the differences emerge to the world we once knew. From the week beginning 29 June 2020, 3PB barristers have found themselves returned to the once familiar world of in-person hearings. Forced to shed their lockdown ‘work t-shirts’ and remember where the iron is kept, the team have been busy across the country returning to...

We have all being getting used to new technologies as the Covid pandemic suddenly put an end to in-person hearings. Although Courts and Tribunals are gradually returning to normality, it is apparent that remote hearings are here to stay, and there will be a move towards the use of a unified CVP technology. I gained some insight into the CVP platform when recently taking part in judicial CVP training. I therefore hope the below overview...