Employment
Disabled NQ solicitor awarded £23k over firm’s recruitment decision
A law firm decided against recruiting a newly qualified solicitor because of her disability, an employment tribunal has ruled, awarding her damages of £23,000, mainly for injury to feelings.
Solicitor’s overcharging warning to firm was a protected disclosure
A solicitor’s warnings to his law firm that it was overcharging a client were protected disclosures under employment law, a tribunal has ruled.
Student taken on as consultant solicitor’s secretary was not employee of firm
A law student taken on as a secretary by a male solicitor she met while a dancer at a club was not employed by the law firm where he was a consultant, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Law firm unfairly dismissed conveyancer after inadequate investigation
A Sussex law firm unfairly dismissed a chartered legal executive as a result of “fundamental unfairness” in the investigation of the charges against her, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Law firm entitled to dismiss solicitor for not passing on complaints
A law firm does not have to pay outstanding salary owed to a solicitor it fired for gross misconduct discovered after he resigned, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Tribunal orders Pure Legal to make redundancy payments to staff
An employment judge has ordered former law firm Pure Legal to pay 24 members of staff three months’ salary for not consulting before making them redundant last year.
EAT allows sacked law firm boss to continue challenging 2014 ruling
A former law firm director, now a barrister, trying to challenge an eight-year-old employment tribunal ruling that found her guilty of serious financial impropriety has overcome the first hurdle.
Tweeting barrister’s £3m claim against former chambers thrown out
The barrister who left his chambers following a storm last year over a tweet about a “stroppy teenager of colour” has had a £3m discrimination claim against the set thrown out for being time-barred.
Lawyer fails in sex discrimination claim against children’s charity
A lawyer who worked for the all-female international division of Coram Children’s Legal Centre was not a victim of sex discrimination, an employment tribunal has ruled.
CPS entitled to cut pay of solicitor who moved north
The Crown Prosecution Service was entitled to cut the pay of a senior prosecutor who worked from home and moved from Bedford to the north-east, an employment tribunal has ruled.
EAT reinstates discrimination claim against law firm
A tribunal was wrong to dismiss a discrimination claim against a law firm on the basis of the claimant’s non-attendance at the hearing, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.
Barrister awarded £22k over chambers’ response to gender-critical tweets
Garden Court Chambers has been ordered to pay member Allison Bailey damages of £22,000 for injury to feelings over the way it handled complaints about her gender critical views.
Barrister settles whistleblower claim against Foreign Office for £423k
A barrister who raised concerns of serious corruption while working for the Foreign Office in Kosovo has settled her employment tribunal claim for £423,000.
Firm cleared of disability discrimination against senior support manager
A senior manager at law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer has failed in a claim that her stress, anxiety and depression constituted a disability.
SRA seeks whistleblowing role as part of SLAPPs action
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is set to make it easier for law firm staff to blow the whistle on their employers, as part of its work on SLAPPs – of which it is investigating more than 20.
Blog
Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority
While SRA fines for AML have been climbing, many in the profession aren’t confident they will get any relief from the FCA, a body used to dealing with a highly regulated industry.
There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
The main reason cited by people who do not have a will was a lack of awareness as to how to arrange one. As a professional community, we seem to be failing to get our message across.
The case for a single legal services regulator: why the current system is failing
From catastrophic firm collapses to endemic compliance failures, the evidence is mounting that the current multi-regulator model is fundamentally broken.
