Employment

A litigator who had emergency heart surgery three months before being sacked was disabled and so can take forward a discrimination claim against his ex-firm, a tribunal has ruled.

A solicitor has been ordered to pay a paralegal over £30,000 after an employment tribunal found he discriminated against her once she became pregnant.

A self-employed consultant at a law firm fell within the definition of an employee for the purposes of claims under the Equality Act 2010, an employment tribunal has ruled.

The former chief executive of listed London law firm Rosenblatt used a highly offensive racial term at a dinner attended by a Black lawyer, an employment tribunal has revealed.

The employment tribunal has set aside a ruling from 2014 that a former law firm director, now a barrister, was guilty of serious financial impropriety.

An employment tribunal has rejected a former law firm managing partner’s claim for non-pecuniary damages despite an earlier finding that he had suffered disability discrimination.

An employment tribunal has rejected disability discrimination claims made against a Welsh law firm by a paralegal dismissed after just nine days for his poor timekeeping.

An assistant solicitor who won his unfair dismissal claim solely on the basis of the procedure followed has failed to persuade the judge to reconsider his decision.

A team manager whose unfair dismissal and breach of contract claim against Yorkshire law firm Minster Law was time barred has blamed his solicitors for issuing it too late.

A law firm unfairly dismissed an assistant solicitor by failing to follow the correct procedure – even though it was justified in firing him, an employment tribunal has ruled.