Employment

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has taken action of differing levels of severity in 24 cases where misconduct in relation to non-disclosure agreements was alleged, it has emerged.

Private equity business Inflexion has made its latest investment in legal services by acquiring one of the largest employment law businesses in the country.

An employment tribunal has criticised the conduct of a solicitor in bringing a race discrimination claim after not making it through the sift stage for a judicial appointment.

An associate solicitor has won her claim for unfair dismissal over the way her then law firm employer handled her return to work after maternity leave.

A former managing partner has been ordered to pay costs for trying to mislead an employment tribunal in his claim against his firm.

The Ministry of Justice has launched plans to bring back “modest” employment tribunal fees of £55 per case, seven years after the Supreme Court ruled that a previous scheme was unlawful.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected an appeal from a barrister expelled from chambers after posting a tweet about a “stroppy teenager of colour”.

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.