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.
The claimant, Mr Mark Hunt, was employed as a firefighter by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority and had 25 years' continuous service when he was dismissed on 23 November 2018. In April 2017 a video was uploaded to…
The appellant, Warren Augustine, worked as a private hire driver employed by the respondent, Data Cars Ltd, a small business, in 2016. He worked on average 34.8 hours per week, while drivers generally worked over 43 hours per…
The respondent, BXTR 3 Ltd trading as House of Gods, is a hotel business. The claimant, Mr Brandon Duffy, started work with it on 10 November 2025 in its food and beverage team. There was an incident at the premises on 25…
The appellant, Ms Daowei Han, was an employer subject to the automatic enrolment obligations of the Pensions Act 2008. On 30 June 2025 the Pensions Regulator, having received information from NEST that pension contributions due…
Mr Masih is a nurse registered since April 2002 who specialises in adult nursing. His case first came before a panel of the Nursing & Midwifery Council's Investigating Committee on 13 November 2018, when no interim order was…
The claimant is the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau); the defendants, Ms Linda Antuan and Ms Nora Chikh Bakr, are former employees whose employment ended in January and March 2023 respectively following a…
The appellant, Morris Aberdeen trading as Morris Roots Natural Hair, is a sole trader carrying on business at 184 Tooting High Street, London. The appellant was required to submit a re-declaration of compliance with its automatic…
IMI Frank's Carwash Limited, a new business, became subject to the employer duties under the workplace pensions legislation with a duties start date of 1 April 2025 and a deadline of 1 September 2025 for submitting its…
The claimant, Mr Edward, was employed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust — in whose shoes the respondent Trust now stands — in a band 5 role from May 2016 until his dismissal in May 2018, it having been decided…
Mr Argence-Lafon's employment transferred to Ark Syndicate Management Limited under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, and he continued as a senior underwriter. He raised concerns that an…
The claimant, born and raised in Nigeria before relocating to the UK in 2007, worked for the respondent as Senior Manager, Global Strategic Insights, from April 2017, reporting to Alessandra Toro, Director for Strategic Insights…
The respondent was employed by Fieldfisher LLP, a firm of solicitors, as a Senior Associate in its Dispute Resolution Department from June 2019. He was dismissed on 6 November 2023 for the stated reason of misconduct, based on…
The claimant, Dr David Miller, was employed by the University of Bristol as a Professor of Political Sociology from September 2018. His academic work concerns propaganda, lobbying and concentrations of power, including the…
Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) is the sponsoring employer of the Northumbrian Water Pension Scheme, which has been in significant deficit, funded at 81.5% as at the December 2022 valuation. Rules 4.9 and 4.10 of the WPS…
The appellant, Patrice Vernon, became a registered nurse in March 2015. In January 2019 she began a 12-month postgraduate Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course at Buckingham New University, placed with and employed by…
Mr and Mrs Lay sold their shares in Easy Direct Debits Ltd (“EDD”) to Independent Vetcare Limited (“IVL”) under a share purchase agreement (“SPA”) completed on 28 October 2020, which included a warranty that EDD's business had…
Jack Bristow, a 23-year-old trainee Traffic Management Operative, was killed on 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice while returning to Oxfordshire in a works van driven by his colleague Callum Smith. A tree fell onto the cab on…
BJV and CKW brought claims under the Equality Act 2010 on behalf of their son DLX, a pupil at Nightingale Primary School who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, against the school's Responsible Body. The claims, as identified by Judge…
The appellant, Miss AB, was employed by GH Limited. Following the respondent's Christmas party on 16 December 2021, her colleague YZ helped her to her hotel room, where an intimate incident occurred; she alleged that he had…
The claimant was employed by Nottingham Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a temporary staffing administrator from 7 September 2020 until she resigned on 16 June 2022, the effective date of termination being 15 July 2022. During…