About
Provided by Outer Temple Chambers
Our Employment & Discrimination team continue to be a leading authority in many of the recent groundbreaking cases. The team is at the forefront of developments in various areas of employment law, including equal pay, working time and holiday pay, disability discrimination and whistleblowing. Many members are appointed to the Attorney General's list of approved counsel and act for Government departments in employment matters.
We are the preferred port of call where specialist expertise in pensions or financial services law is required, or where large equal pay claims are pursued through the civil courts.
We prioritise commercial sensitivities in litigation and advisory work concerning business protection and employees rights, and provide advice and expertise in mediation, arbitration and other methods of ADR.
Examples of work;
- Mass claimant equal pay claims against ASDA, Sainsbury’s, Next Retail, Morrisons and Tesco.
- The highest award for Disability Discrimination (£4.7 million) for a claimant; Royal Bank of Scotland PLC v AB.
- Public sector pension reforms brought by 100s of Judges and 1000s of Fire Fighters, Police Officers, Doctors, Prison Officers and MOD workers.
- Northern Ireland ‘gay cake’ case, Lee v Ashers Baking Company Limited & ors [2018] 3 WLR 1294
- The first appellate case to consider the meaning of ‘unfavourable treatment’ in the Equality Act 2010, Williams v The Trustess of Swansea University Pension and Assurance Scheme & Anr