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Wendy Miller
Employment
15/05/2025

Strike Out Success for Wendy Miller as Tribunal Confirms Administrators not Liable as Employers

Wendy Miller has secured the strike out of multiple claims against administrators in a complex multi-respondent Employment Tribunal matter involving whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, and insolvency issues. The Tribunal: A significant result in a...
Elizabeth Hodgetts
Employment
25/04/2025

Elizabeth Hodgetts represents MoD in its successful defence of race discrimination and victimisation claims

Elizabeth Hodgetts, instructed by the Government Legal Department, represented the Ministry of Defence in its successful defence of race discrimination and victimisation claims arising out of a sequence of events over 18 months. The claimant was...
Sophie Garner
Employment
16/04/2025

Supreme Court Provides Certainty on Definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in Equality Act 2010

The Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 provides certainty at last in relation to the issue of whether the definition of ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in the Equality Act 2010 (‘EqA’)...
Employment Law Webinar
Employment
14/04/2025

Webinar 11th June- Non-Employment Discrimination Claims

We are pleased to invite you to “Non-Employment Discrimination Claims – Law and Practice”, a free webinar on Wednesday 11th June 2025. Join Tamsin Sandiford, Patrick Keith and Colin Baran of St Philips Chambers Employment team as they...
Kyran Kanda
Employment
09/04/2025

“What’s in a Name?” A Guide to Anonymity Orders in the Employment Tribunal

What can you do if an employment claim would be jeopardised unless a person was granted anonymity? The answer may be to apply for an anonymity order under Rule 49 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024. Those applications, however, face...
Kyran Kanda
Employment
24/02/2025

“Can you believe what she said?” A Discussion of Higgs v Farmor’s School [2025] EWCA Civ 109

How can an employer justify dismissing an employee for controversial social media activity? In Higgs v Farmor’s School, the Court of Appeal held that the dismissal of a secondary school employee for sharing posts on Facebook objecting to the...
data protection
Employment
11/02/2025

Data, DSARs & Disclosure Webinar – 8th May

We are pleased to announce a new webinar from our Employment Group; Data, DSARs, and Disclosure. Connor Wright and Felix Levay will look at the growing use of data subject access requests as a form of pre-action disclosure. They...
Tamsin Sandiford & Kyran Kanda
Employment
20/01/2025

Tamsin Sandiford & Kyran Kanda named as BSG barrister representatives

We are delighted to see that Tamsin Sandiford and Kyran Kanda have been named as barrister representatives on Birmingham Solicitors’​ Group’s (BSG) 2025 committee. In the role of barrister representative, Tamsin and pupil barrister...
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