No5 Chambers is one of the largest sets of chambers in the country and operates from Birmingham, London, Bristol and Leicester. The Employment Group is…
One area of law where Brexit may have an impact is employment law. Leaving aside Treaty obligations guaranteeing the free movement of workers (Article 45) and…
Tim Jones, barrister at No5 Chambers, recently co-presented a seminar titled ‘Discrimination in the Provision of Services and Public Functions’ held in Birmingham on 15th September. You can…
Tim Jones successfully represented landowners in High Court proceedings (Lear Investments v Welsh Ministers [2015] EWHC 1532 (Admin)), where he obtained the quashing of an…
As app-based taxi booking service Uber faces legal action over the rights of drivers, an expert in employment law says employers and employees should always…
Not everything that may be interesting to the public is likely to be ‘in the public interest’. But is that a commonly held or understood…
One of the difficult issues in TUPE transfers is to decide which employees are assigned to the grouping of employees who transfer to the new employer,…
There is always an employment law dimension in Queen’s Speeches, and this one is no different. The new Conservative Government has a mandate in respect…
It is no secret at the Employment Bar that there is less Employment Tribunal advocacy work around now than there used to be. Moreover, this…
Naomi Owen looks at the recent decision from HHJ Eady QC in Blackwood v Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust [2014] UKEAT/0130/14/RN. In…
Richard Adkinson reviews the recent decision of NHS Trust v Sanders UKEAT/0217/14/RN which concerned an appeal arising out of a Tribunal performing its own internet…
Caroline Jennings reviews the recent EAT case of Palmer v RBS UKEAT/0083/14 which concerns whether or not a statutory restriction on eligibility for early retirement benefits could amount…
No5 Employment Barrister Mugni Islam-Choudhury will be presenting part of a seminar hosted by Birmingham Law Society on Effective Employment Tribunal Advocacy, to be held…
Was a failure to allow an employee to change her choice of voluntary redundancy to redeployment (in the hope that the redeployment exercise would take…
In a truly landmark decision in the case of Lock v British Gas [2014] IRLR 648 the European Court of Justice decided that holiday pay…