Areas of Practice

Employment and Discrimination 

Cloisters barristers are known for their expertise in employment and discrimination law and have handled many landmark cases. Cloisters is home to both the Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association and also the Chair of the Discrimination Law Association.Our barristers appear for both employers and employees and on both sides in discrimination cases.

In 2003 Cloisters became the first ever barristers' chambers to win 'Employment Team of the Year' at The Lawyer Awards. Each year Cloisters appears in a high percentage of the top employment cases to watch as chosen by respected employment law commentator Mickey Rubenstein. For instance in 2006 Cloisters Barristers appeared in two thirds of all the employment law cases in the House of Lords and in the last year Cloisters were involved in numerous leading cases from the ECJ and HL down to the ET. Our barristers undertake all kinds of advisory work and undertake mediations and other settlements.

We undertake all kinds of discrimination law in areas outside employment such as the advising on and litigating in relation to the Equality Duties and in relation to discrimination in relation to goods facilities and services.

Members have experience in a wide range of employment law and related areas including:

• Collective labour law
• Confidential information issues
• Contract claims
• Disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Age discrimination
• Disability discrimination
• Gender discrimination
• Race discrimination
• Sex discrimination
• Unfair and wrongful dismissal
• Employee share schemes
• Employers’ vicarious liability
• Equal pay claims
• Garden leave
• Industrial disputes
• Jurisdiction
• Occupational injury and disease
• Occupational Stress
• Pensions
• Redundancy
• Restrictive covenants and
• Trade Union law
• TUPE
• Tied accommodation
• Working Time Regulations

 

Barristers

Jacques Algazy
Robin Allen QC
Anna Beale
Thomas Brown
Andrew Buchan
Catherine Casserley
Rachel Chambers
Tom Coghlin
Sally Cowen
Rachel Crasnow
Olivia-Faith Dobbie
Will Dobson
Daniel Dyal
Simon Dyer
Philip Engelman
Paul Epstein QC
Sarah Fraser Butlin
Jason Galbraith-Marten
Yvette Genn
Caspar Glyn
John Horan
David Jones
David Massarella
Dee Masters
Claire McCann
Damian McCarthy
John Mehrzad
Paul Michell
Christopher Milsom
Caroline Musgrave
Brian Napier Q.C.
Professor Alan Neal
Adam Ohringer
Declan O'Dempsey
Akua Reindorf
Sally Robertson
Daphne Romney QC
Martin Seaward
Edmund Williams

Cases

O'Brien v. Department of Constitutional Affairs - June 2010
Amnesty International v. Ahmed - August 2009
Bashir v. Sheffield NHS Trust - July 2009
Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation v. Buckland - July 2009
R. (on the application of Marrion, Scott & Burke) v. Boards of Medical Referees & Ors - April 2009
Carl v. University of Sheffield - February 2009
Arnold v.Sandwell MBC - February 2009
Brennan v. Sunderland City Council - December 2008
R. (McCarthy) v. Basildon DC - December 2008
Spencer v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - November 2008
Sheffield Forgemasters v. Fox; Telindus v. Brading - November 2008
Allen v. GMB - July 2008
Surtees & ors v Middlesbrough Council - July 2008
Blackburn & Manley v. Chief Constable of West Midlands Police - July 2008
Yorkshire Housing Association Ltd v. Swanson - June 2008
Alexander v. Leeds NHS Mental Health Trust - June 2008
Ma v. Merck Sharpe & Dohme Ltd - April 2008
Gravil v. Carroll & Redruth Rugby Football Club - April 2008
Marrion, Scott & Burke - March 2008
R (on the application of Walker) v. Inner London Crown Court - January 2008
H.M. Prison Service v. Johnson - November 2007
Corrigan v. GMB - November 2007
Ahsan v. The Labour Party - November 2007
Dow (Nos. 1 & 2) v. Cumbria - November 2007
Irving v. GMB - November 2007
Eric Hammond v. International Network Services UK Ltd (In members voluntary liquidation) - November 2007
Munu v. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust - November 2007
Khudados v. Hayden - October 2007
Governors of Alford House v. McDonald - October 2007
Angel Biotechnology Limited v. Taylor - October 2007
UK Coal Mining Ltd (appellant) v. National Union of Mineworkers (Northumberland Area) v. Another (respondents) - September 2007
UK Coal Mining Ltd v. NUM & BACM - September 2007
Wolverhampton University v. Elbeltagi - July 2007
Davies v Farnborough College of Technology - July 2007
Horvathova v GMC: GMC forced to recognise qualification of Czech doctor - June 2007
Williams v. University of Nottingham - June 2007
Anderson v. South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council - April 2007
Smith v. Flamco Ltd - April 2007
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council v Pratt - February 2007
Bull & Roberts v Nottinghamshire & City of Nottingham Fire & Rescue Authority - February 2007
Stansbury v Datapulse - February 2007
Robert Wiseman & Sons v Patel - February 2007
Brock v Minerva Dental - January 2007
Lawson v. Serco - January 2007
Mehra v Malborough Road Primary - December 2006
Sutton v The Ranch Ltd - December 2006
NUM v UK Coal Mining Ltd - December 2006
XY v AB Bank - December 2006
Digby v East Cambridgeshire District Council - November 2006
Edebi v Canary Wharf Management Limited - November 2006
Mohmed v West Coast Trains - November 2006
Palen v. RKS Services - November 2006
Potter and Others v. North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - September 2006
Serco v Redfearn - May 2006
Matthews & others v Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority & others - March 2006
Krelle v Exel & Ransom - March 2006
Clarke & Ors v Stockton-On-Tees Borough Council - February 2006
Vauxhall Motors v T&GWU - February 2006
Lawson v Serco - January 2006
Matthews v. Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority & Ors - January 2006
Younis v Trans Global Projects Ltd & Anor - December 2005
Mudchute Association v Petherbridge - November 2005
Forsyth v Eton College - November 2005
Nagy v Metropolitan Police Commissioner - November 2005
Redfearn v SERCO Ltd - October 2005
Giles v Cornelia Care Homes - August 2005
Cosentino v Cable News International Ltd - July 2005
Redfearn v Serco Ltd - July 2005
Ms. J Diamond v Park Lane College - July 2005
Pearson & Baldwin v LB Merton - July 2005
Hardy Hanson plc v Lax - July 2005
Forsyth v Eton - July 2005
Uphill v Colas Ltd - July 2005
Adami v. The Ethical Standards Officer of the Standards Board for England - June 2005
Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc - May 2005
Saggar v Ministry of Defence - April 2005
National Union of Miners v RGB mining - April 2005
Moroak (trading as Blake Envelopes) v Cromie - April 2005
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein v Adebayo - March 2005
Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust - March 2005
Wilson v North Cumbria Acute NHS Trust - March 2005
Igen Ltd v Wong - February 2005
South Tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust v Awotona - February 2005
Dattani v Chief Constable of West Mercia - February 2005
Ball v Street - February 2005
Pinnington v Swansea Council - February 2005
Whitten v Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust - January 2005
London Borough of Enfield v Sivanandan - January 2005
Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust & Ors - January 2005
Cunningham & Ors v Orange plc - January 2005
Hawley v Luminar Leisure plc, ASE Security Services Ltd and Faraday Underwriting - January 2005
Welsh (Denise) v. Parianzadeh (Ali) (t/a Southern Fried Chicken) - December 2004
McCabe v London Borough of Greenwich - December 2004
Orthet v Vince-Cain - November 2004
Kaur v MG Rover - November 2004
Mohmed v West Coast Trains - October 2004
Cadman v Health & Safety Executive - October 2004
Finch v Southend Borough Council - October 2004
Moonsar v Fiveways Transport - September 2004
Thorpe v Dul - September 2004
Rutherford & Bentley v Secretary of State for Trade & Industry - September 2004
Solemainy & Kirk v Sequence UK ltd - August 2004
Soleimany & Kirk v Sequence UK Ltd - August 2004
Orthet v Vince-Cain - August 2004
Oxfordshire County Council v Millward - August 2004
Wheeler v Quality Deep ltd - July 2004
Meikle v Nottinghamshire County Council - July 2004
Street v Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centre - July 2004
Eastwood and another v Magnox Electricity plc - July 2004
Paul Higham of 1 Pump Court v Horton - July 2004
Kidd v Computer Associates - July 2004
Nottinghamshire County Council v Meikle - July 2004
Walker v Co-Operative Insurance Services - July 2004
Matthews & Ors v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority - July 2004
Archibald v Fife Council - July 2004
Corus & Regal Hotels plc v Wilkinson - June 2004
Hendricks v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis - June 2004
X v Y - May 2004
Profectus Group Litigation v NTL - May 2004
Shodeke v Hill & the London Borough of Havering - May 2004
Carter v Leicestershire Police - April 2004
Barber v Somerset County Council - April 2004
BNP Paribas v Mezzotero - March 2004
El-Hoshi v Pizza Express - March 2004
Williams v Ferrosan - March 2004
Brand v Compro Computer Services - February 2004
Hewett v Motorola - February 2004
Dennis Wise v Filbert Realisations (formerly Leicester FC) - February 2004
Lawson v Serco - January 2004
Joseph v Cedar Enterprises Solutions Ltd - December 2003
Larwood v Earth Tronics Inc - December 2003
Young v JJB Sports plc - December 2003
Quantum Business Media v Hayes - December 2003
Stansbury v Datapulse - December 2003
Cunningham v Quedos - November 2003
Gordon v Nacro - November 2003
Stanley Cole v Sheridan - July 2003
University of Huddersfield v Wolff - July 2003
University of Huddersfield v Wolff - July 2003
Paul v National Probation Service - June 2003
Angelica Graham v Beadles/Marriott - June 2003
Evans v Stena Line - June 2003
Bolch v Chipman - May 2003
Ayobiojo v London Borough of Camden - May 2003
P&O Trans European ltd v Vidal - November 2002
Irandoust v London Borough of Camden - October 2002
CPL Distribution v Todd - October 2002
BCCI Litigation - September 2002
Moore v Simoco Europe Ltd - August 2002
Ellis v Ideal for All - August 2002
Wright v The Governing Body of Bilton High School - February 2002
Grossman v Barnet Healthcare - February 2002
Sykes v JP Morgan - February 2002
AB v CD - December 2001
Sainsbury's v Hitt - December 2001
Goldman v Haringey Health Authority - July 2001
Shawkat v Nottingham City Hospital NHST - June 2001
Anyanwu & Ebuzoeme v South Bank University Student Union & CRE - March 2001
Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA v. Munawar Ali, Sultana Runi Khan and Others - March 2001
Waters v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis - July 2000
R v West Yorkshire Fire & Civil Defence Authority, ex Parte Lockwood & McCalman - July 2000
Gibson v British Gas - February 2000
Colt Group Ltd v Couchman - January 2000
A v X - November 1999
Beynon & Ors v Scadden & Ors - June 1999
Woolgar v Sussex Police - May 1999
R (Malik) v Waltham Forest NHS Primary Health Care Trust (Secretary of State for Health interested party) - November -0001