Employment and discrimination News

Chambers is delighted to announce Mark Green's promotion to the Attorney-General’s London B Panel for a period of five years commencing on 2nd September 2019. Chambers currently has five other members on the Attorney-General’s civil panels. They are: London A Panel: Mathew Gullick, William Hansen London B Panel: Richard Wheeler, Caroline Stone Regional Panel B: Simon Tibbitts

Simon Tibbitts has just finished a 10 day hearing in London Central Employment Tribunal that has received widespread media attention. The trial has been reported in the Telegraph, Guardian, BBC News and the Independent amongst others. Simon appeared on behalf of the Ministry of Defence defending claims of racial harassment and discrimination brought by two former paratroopers. Judgment is reserved but a link to an article from the Independent can be found here. Click here...

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.

Click here to read Matthew Curtis' notes "Schedules of Loss: Format, Optimisation and Pension Calculations". View Matthew Curtis's profile here.

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...

Ahead of Armed Forces day this Saturday 29th June, 3PB Barristers are delighted to announce their close cooperation with solicitors Bower & Bailey to provide first class legal assistance to Armed Forces Personnel – across the whole spectrum of legal specialisms. Both firms will sign on Wednesday 3rd July the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging support to Armed Services Personnel through the supply of legal services and charity work. National barristers chambers 3PB have established strong...

Daniel Brown edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

At the beginning of May, Lachlan Wilson and Mathew Gullick appeared before the Court of Appeal for the employee, a school's peripatetic music teacher, in a challenge brought by the employer against the decision of the EAT (reported as Brazel v Harpur Trust at [2018] ICR D10) that, in cases involving workers on zero hours contracts, there was no basis to reduce the holiday entitlement of 5.6 weeks under the Working Time Regulations 1998 or to change...

3PB barristers Craig Ludlow and Sarah Clarke analyse the latest employment law cases, covering March, April and May 2019. Click here to read their analysis. Time limits and the correct approach to the reasonable practicability of lodging ET claims when the previous fees regime was in place -  Mr G Wray v Jewish Care (UKEAT/0193/18/JOJ) s.26 Harassment: The correct approach -  Mr F Ahmed v The Cardinal Hume Academies (UKEAT/0196/18/RN) Criminal & Employer Investigations, Interim...

Simon Tibbitts edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

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...

3PB employment barrister Andrew MacPhail appeared in the Court of Appeal recently, representing Ms Shaikh at all stages including at the Court of Appeal, instructed by LB Law.  The Court of Appeal, as confirmed in its reserved judgment of today’s date, concluded in Ms Shaikh’s favour ([2019] EWCA Civ 267). Ms Shaikh brought a number of claims in the ET, including an equal pay claim and claims based on constructive dismissal arising from the alleged...