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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...

Patrick Keith
Employment
23/07/2015

Patrick Keith joins St Philips

St Philips is delighted to announce the arrival of Patrick Keith who joins us from Cornwall Street Chambers. Patrick brings a thriving practice in Employment and Personal Injury litigation and will be based in our Birmingham office. Head of St...

Sophie Garner
Employment
14/07/2015

Flexible Working: The Poor Relation Of The Discrimination Family?

The current flexible working provisions are often seen as not worth raising as a stand-alone claim. Although they are sometimes tagged on to a discrimination claim, is that all they are good for? Previously just for parents and carers, the right to...

Mirza Ahmed
Employment
09/04/2015

Judicial Review: Changes to Legislation and the Pre-Action Protocol

Lexis PSL – Dispute Resolution analysis: Dr Mirza Ahmad, barrister at St Philips Chambers, provides his views on the judicial review amendments made by the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (CJCA 2015), which are due to come into force on 13...

Mirza Ahmed
Employment
29/01/2015

Public Bodies Beware – Caste Discrimination

A recent EAT ruling in a case where an employee sought to claim in part for caste discrimination has important implications for public bodies, writes Mirza Ahmad. Before Christmas the President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, Mr Justice Langstaff,...

Employment Barristers
Employment
17/12/2014

It’s No Holiday For Specialist Employment Barristers

It’s not every day that the government responds to a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal with a taskforce, but then it’s not every day that the EAT makes a ruling with the potential to affect so many employers.   European and...

Elizabeth Hodgetts
Employment
21/08/2014

Elizabeth Hodgetts successfully represents TV’s “Big Brother” professor

Elizabeth Hodgetts recently successfully represented Professor Geoff Beattie, the resident psychologist on ten series of “Big Brother”, in his claims for unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal against his former employer the University of...