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Employment team air ambulance fundraising
Employment
11/10/2016

St Philips Employment Team raises £1902 for Midlands Air Ambulance

St Phillips employment group hosted the Midlands ambulance charity at a hotly contested pub quiz on 22nd September, when 18 legal teams pitted their wits against each other in a highly entertaining iPad based pub quiz. John Cottrell of the...

St Philips Chambers reception
Employment
19/09/2016

St Philips to host a video link to The Voice and Views of ELA on the Employment Law Implications

St Philips Chambers will be the host of the video link to the ‘Brexit and the Changing Political Landscape: The Voice and Views of ELA on the Employment Law Implications’ seminar which is running live in London at 6:30pm on October 20th 2016....

Jonathan Gidney
Employment
25/04/2016

Holiday Pay by Jonathan Gidney

Voluntary overtime, standby and call out payments to be included in the calculation of holiday pay for the 1st 20 days of annual leave In White & Others v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council [2016] 1300537/2015 the Midlands West...

Paul Wilson
Employment
19/04/2016

Paul Wilson Joins St Philips Chambers

St Philips Chambers give a warm welcome to Paul Wilson, former Head of Employment at Broadway House Chambers, who joins our Employment Team based out of our Park Square office in Leeds. Legal 500 2015 – “He has a good manner with clients, who...

Sarah George
Employment
09/02/2016

Satellite Litigation Avoided for Early Conciliation by Sarah George

Two recent EAT decisions have had the “happy consequence” that arguments that the Early Conciliation Rules 2014 (EC Rules) require claimants to conciliate afresh when substituting or adding respondents are unlikely to succeed. Rule 34 of the ET...

Rosa Dickinson
Employment
05/01/2016

Substantial Disadvantage in an Ill Health Context

Life has just got a lot easier for Claimants complaining of a failure to make reasonable adjustments in respect of ill health absences following the Court of Appeal’s decision in Griffiths v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] EWCA...

Alex Rozycki
Employment
22/09/2015

Alexander Rozycki Joins St Philips Chambers

St Philips is delighted to announce the arrival of Alexander Rozycki, who joins us from 4-5 Grays Inn Square Chambers. Alexander specialises in general civil, professional negligence, EU, employment and intellectual property law and appears regularly...

Mirza Ahmed
Employment
20/08/2015

Umrah & Hajj Operators Beware

Innocent members of the public who have been let down by Umrah / Hajj travel operators at the last minute in the UK or whilst in Saudi Arabia can take some comfort from a Brentford County Court judgement – given on 12/8/2015 after a trial conducted...