Employment

A barrister who caused her assistant to suffer a mental and physical “collapse” has been ordered to pay her over £155,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal.

A former employee of City giant Hogan Lovells tried to cause “maximum disruption” to the law firm in bringing employment tribunal proceedings, “perhaps as some form of revenge”.

A solicitor made redundant after her work on the Grenfell Tower disaster ended has won a claim for unfair dismissal because her law firm did not properly consider another role for her.

A law firm was entitled to summarily dismiss a trainee solicitor who forwarded client-related emails to a private email account, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A law firm’s failure to help a self-employed consultant solicitor bill tens of thousands of pounds of work was due to error and not discrimination, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A “rude and disruptive” caseworker who “embroiled” a national law firm in a “vast, unmeritorious” discrimination claim must pay £20,000 in costs, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A former employee who “entered into a campaign conducted to cause disruption” to a law firm, culminating in an employment claim with fabricated evidence, has been told to pay costs.

A disabled director of leading legal aid firm Duncan Lewis was unfairly dismissed over absences from work and his failure to report them, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A solicitor who says he made a protected disclosure about the unfair allocation of work at his former firm has been told he will struggle to prove his unfair dismissal claim.

A solicitor whose career in company secretarial work was “thrown severely off course” after being sacked due to having asthma has been awarded damages of £1.1m.

A solicitor who worked as a consultant for a South London law firm was not an employee and so could not sue for unfair dismissal and breach of contract, an employment tribunal has ruled.

An employment tribunal has dismissed a test case brought by three retired circuit judges who argued that they were treated unfairly by having to join a less generous judicial pension scheme.

An employment tribunal has struck out a clinical negligence solicitor’s claims of sex discrimination and that she was disabled.

A Devon law firm was entitled to demand repayment of a caseworker’s CILEX course fees after she left, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A group of businesses which includes an employment law firm and HR company is looking to double in size over the next three years by acquiring either legal or HR businesses, its founder has said.