Employment

A solicitor who was fired two weeks into a six-month contract was wrongly dismissed and entitled to be paid for the full six months, an employment tribunal has ruled.

An employment law advice service powered by artificial intelligence and now spun out of a London law firm is looking to team up with unions, charities and advice centres.

The mother of a solicitor who committed suicide five days after being given notice by his law firm can bring an employment tribunal claim out of time, a judge has ruled.

The former director of a law firm and his wife have won increased awards for unpaid wages and redundancy from the government because the practice was insolvent.

A trainee solicitor whose never took up his job after the terms of employment were changed four days before he began work has failed in his bid for damages greater than his contractual notice period.

A former employee of Hogan Lovells whose unfair dismissal claim was thrown out has been ordered to pay costs because of attacks he made on the City firm’s integrity.

A paralegal at a London law firm was unfairly dismissed over unpaid wages, subjected to disability discrimination and harassed on the basis of her sex, an employment tribunal has ruled.

An employment tribunal did not show bias in dismissing a claim brought by a black barrister against his chambers, an appeal tribunal has ruled.

The way a law firm dealt with a pregnant paralegal after it unfairly dismissed her exacerbated the stress she suffered, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A law firm has been ordered to pay damages of nearly £19,000 for unfairly dismissing a pregnant paralegal after going through a tick-box redundancy exercise.

A law firm that tried to change its head of family’s bonus scheme without notice and failed to promote her as agreed fundamentally breached her contract, a tribunal has ruled.

A law firm unfairly dismissed a legal secretary who made homophobic comments because of how it ran the disciplinary process, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A disabled former senior prosecutor has been awarded damages of nearly £136,000 for discrimination suffered at the hands of the Crown Prosecution Service.

A solicitor has been ordered to pay costs for his conduct of a failed employment tribunal claim against his former law firm.

A ruling that salaried judges who ‘sit up’ in higher courts from time to time should be paid more for the work has been overturned by the Employment Appeal Tribunal.