Practice area
The individual and collective employment relationship: unfair and wrongful dismissal, workplace discrimination, whistleblowing, redundancy, employment status, working time, restrictive covenants, TUPE transfers, and trade union matters.
Mr Roberts had spent his career in pensions, joining the 3173 group as a consultant in Glasgow on 1 September 2011 and moving to Manchester in 2015 to set up a regional office. He became a director of Dalriada Trustees in October…
Mr John Lowry is an independent turnaround and restructuring specialist who has provided his services to public and private companies and government funded enterprises. Prior to 2011 he operated through a partnership, then…
The claimants are 3,540 retail sales consultants employed in Next's shops. In 2018 they brought equal pay claims under the Equality Act 2010, complaining that they were paid less than comparators who worked as operatives in…
The Claimants, 3173 Bidco Limited and Dalriada Trustees Limited, provide professional trustee services to pension schemes. The First Defendant, Mr Christopher James Roberts, had been employed in that business under a service…
360 Recruitment Limited is a specialist recruitment agency supplying temporary and permanent staff across industries including construction, engineering and manufacturing, with offices in London and Nottingham. Samuel Amos was…
The appellant, Mr Arfan Munir Rai, a 48 year old qualified teacher, was employed from February 2023 at Kensington Park School in London teaching philosophy and sociology. Relations with the School were difficult from the outset…
Dr Nathan Cofnas was appointed in September 2022 to a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the philosophy faculty at Cambridge University, researching the biological basis of moral norms. Emmanuel College appointed…
The appellant, Cynthia Njoku, is a registered nurse who joined St Mary's Hospital, London in February 2019 and worked as a Band 6 nurse and Nurse in Charge on the Manvers Ward, a 33-bed respiratory ward. In February 2023 the…
The claimant, Mr Z Pekacar, was employed by the London Borough of Islington from 2014 until 2022. The second to eighth, and the tenth and eleventh respondents are current or former employees of the borough; the ninth respondent…
Mr Kristensen was employed as a dental hygienist from 2008, initially by a dental practice later sold to new owners and, in 2017, to Portman Healthcare Limited. Believing the working environment toxic, he began covertly recording…
The appellant, Mr M Mostafa, brought claims of direct race and religion discrimination against Mrs K Julier and Miss C Slater. His case concerned his having gone from being a frontrunner for a permanent role to not being…
Ms Laura Furbacher was employed by Deco UK Limited and assigned to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council as a "Welcome and Support Officer" on the respondent's Homes for Ukraine project for some 15 months. By her…
Michal Jarosinski was employed by Nestle UK Ltd from 1 April 2009 until 16 December 2020, latterly as a Quality Assurance Technician. In June 2020 he presented a claim of racial discrimination to the Employment Tribunal, Midlands…
The appellant, Mr Paramjeet Singh Bhogal, was a member of the National Education Union. On 7 November 2023 the union commenced disciplinary proceedings against him, the complaint being brought by the National Officers and…
The respondent, Ian Green, served as a Fire Sub-Station Officer in the Fire Service of Trinidad and Tobago from 1 August 1998 until his retirement in December 2015. In 2006 he asked the Chief Fire Officer to determine, under…
The claimant, anonymised as XYZ, brought a claim for breach of confidence against the defendant, UVW, an employee whose employment the claimant purported to terminate on 31 October 2025 but which continues by virtue of an order…
The appellant, Adil's Real Estate Ltd, is an employer subject to the automatic enrolment regime overseen by the Pensions Regulator. The Regulator issued a compliance notice on 31 July 2025 under s. 35 of the Pensions Act 2008…
The claimant, Mr Patrick Henry McAuley, was an agency worker on the books of an employment agency which assigned him to work as a "picker packer" in the warehouse of the respondent, Ethigen Ltd, a pharmaceutical supply company…
The appellant, Flavio Fellica, a litigant in person who advised the Tribunal that they are agender and asked that gender-neutral language be used, had on 5 May 2024 complained to the Certification Officer about the University and…
EMJ Plastics Limited designs and manufactures permanent "formwork" panels — moulded glass reinforced plastic panels onto which steel-reinforced concrete is cast in bridge construction. Mr Baggaley was employed by EMJ from 22…