• Legal 500 2023

      Another outstanding Legal 500 result for 海角破解版鈥檚 employment law barristers

      海角破解版 Barristers congratulates its Employment and Discrimination team for another strong performance in the Legal 500 2023 edition published last night. 13 of the team鈥檚 21 juniors are now ranked in the publication, attracting a total of 21 individual rankings across the South Eastern, Western, London and Midlands Circuits. The team consolidates its top tier position in South Eastern with 2 new rising star rankings, bringing the total of 海角破解版 employment rankings to 5 in...

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    • Simon Astill

      海角破解版 triumphs in latest Legal 500 ratings of the UK's best barristers聽聽

      海角破解版 Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), the UK's third largest chambers, is delighted to report its best rankings yet - totalling 130 - in the Legal 500 2023鈥檚 edition published last night, up 12% on last year鈥檚 116. The set has achieved its rankings across 5 large UK regions - or Circuits (London, South Eastern, Western, Midlands and Chester and Wales) - in 21 categories of law. Earlier this year, 海角破解版 also celebrated its first rankings...

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    • Our August 2022 employment law newsletter is out now!

      The past 30 days have provided much for the employment law world to write about, starting with the success of 海角破解版鈥檚 Mathew Gullick QC, Lachlan Wilson and Naomi Webber in the Supreme Court in The Harper Trust v Brazel case; and Mathew Gullick QC earning the accolade of the Times鈥 鈥淟awyer of the Week鈥 in the process.

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    • Mathew Gullick 200

      Part-time music teacher wins landmark case on calculating holiday pay for 鈥榩art-year鈥 workers

      海角破解版 barristers Mathew Gullick QC, Lachlan Wilson and Naomi Webber from 海角破解版's Employment and Discrimination Group - saw today a landmark judgment in favour of their music teacher client Mrs Lesley Brazel by the UK Supreme Court. This decision today follows her case being heard before an employment tribunal (in 2017), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (in 2018) and most recently the Court of Appeal (in 2019). The UK's highest court confirmed the rights of part-year...

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    • April 2022 employment law newsletter out now!

      Welcome to April's employment law newsletter In the April edition of our employment law newsletter, we welcome Craig Ludlow's appointment to the Editorial Board of the Employment Lawyers Assocation (UK) Briefing magazine; report on the Fifth Addendum to the ET Presidential Guidance on awards for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury and other statutory increases to compensation from 6 April; and consider the ET's roadmap for how Employment Tribunal hearings will be conducted over 2022...

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    • PUBLIC 1

      Trio of 海角破解版 barristers successful in significant Upper Tribunal 鈥楥ountry Guidance鈥 appeal about Somalia

      Three of 海角破解版鈥檚 specialist public and regulatory law barristers: William Hansen, Matthew Wyard聽and Naomi Webber, successfully represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the decision of OA (Somalia) handed down on 2nd February 2022 following a six-day trial held in June 2021. The appeal was listed to consider whether the country guidance given in MOJ & Ors (Return to Mogadishu) Somalia CG [2014] UKUT 00442 (IAC) continued accurately to summarise the factual...

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    • 海角破解版 Mock Tribunal website

      Specialist education law barristers present SEND mock tribunal

      Five barristers from 海角破解版鈥檚 specialist education law team recently joined forces with Oxfordshire County Council to host a SEND mock tribunal as part of a training session. Barristers Lachlan Wilson, Katherine Anderson, Matthew Wyard, Jennifer Agyekum and Naomi Webber presented the mock tribunal to over 80 attendees. 海角破解版鈥檚 education law team represents parents, pupils, schools, and their governing bodies (both from the maintained and the independent sectors), academies, universities and colleges, NGOs including charities, students,...

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    • December 2021 employment law newsletter out now

        Welcome to December's employment law newsletter Our last newsletter of 2021 reports聽海角破解版's appearance聽in the聽Supreme Court on a holiday pay appeal. We consider聽the latest developments at Yorkshire County Cricket Club following the allegations of racial harassment and bullying made by Azeem Rafiq and聽look at Mark Green鈥檚 recent training session on discrimination for聽the ELA. Case law analysis is provided by -聽Naomi Webber聽on discrimination in pregnancy with R (the Motherhood Plan & Anor) v Her Majesty's Treasury...

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    • December education law newsletter - out now!

        Welcome to our December's education law newsletter Welcome to 海角破解版's Education Law Team December 2021 Newsletter. It features contributions from specialist Education Law Barristers Aimee Fox, Emma Waldron, Matthew Wyard, Naomi Webber and Jim Hirschmann and has been co-edited by Jim Hirschmann and Katherine Anderson. You will find legal analyis on: (1) Discrimination in Foster Placeents as analysed in the recent Court of Appeal Judgment R (Cornerstone) v Ofsted [2021] EWCA Civ 1390 (2)...

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    • November 2021 employment law newsletter out now

        Welcome to November's employment law newsletter Our team has much to celebrate this month yet again, with聽Mathew Gullick's formal appointment at the聽Queen鈥檚 Counsel Appointment Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Monday. This comes hot on the heels of Chambers and Partners announcing a record 11 of our employment juniors ranked in 3 circuits, following equally outstanding results in the Legal 500 back in October. Case law analysis is provided by -聽Grace Nicholls聽on the聽importance of case...

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    • Employment and discrimination newsletter out now - July 2021

      Welcome to July's employment law newsletter Though Covid and its impact on the workplace remain聽centre-stage in our news section, we also highlight the importance of the Dobson case on working mums' rights; another court appearance for Maya Forstater and her former employer CGD and the 4th judgment on Deliveroo riders' employment status. Case law analysis is provided this month by Craig Ludlow with an in-depth review of Mercer v (1) Alternative Future Group Ltd (2)...

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    • Employment and discrimination newsletter out now - May 2021

      Welcome to May's newsletter This month鈥檚 employment law newsletter features case law updates from Sarah Clarke, Naomi Webber, Andrew MacPhail and Grace Boorer covering: the correct test to apply in re-engagement orders; the workers status of foster carers under article 11 ECHR; what to do when faced with unclear and confused pleadings from a litigant in person and the 鈥榣ong-term鈥 adverse effect on disability status. We share a link to our new resource page for...

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