Cloisters in the news

William Latimer-Sayer wins £10.8 million for client injured at birth.  Please click here for ITN article

Gay couple cannot be lawfully discriminated against by hoteliers, Court of Appeal rules

Dignity and Transparency:  fundamental values in a UK Bill of rights? Declan O’Dempsey, a founder member of the Halsbury Law Exchange legal think tank, has written a thought provoking piece on the importance of the concept of dignity in a “post equality” world and on the importance of determining a legal concept of transparency.   The text is at http://www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk/.  Declan compares the state of affairs under the Kenyan Constitution 2010 with the approach currently being adopted in the field of equality and administrative decision making in the UK.

Halsbury’s Law Exchange is an independent and politically neutral legal think tank which contributes to the development of law and the legal sector. It aims to communicate ideas on reform or legal direction to decision makers and the legal sector and promote debate through papers, reports, events and media pieces. The principles that underpin our laws are seldom open to reasoned and informed debate that will change or shape legislation. Halsbury’s Law Exchange seeks to change this state of affairs.  The next phase of the debate is to define the concepts of dignity and transparency into workable legal form.

Success for Catherine Casserley in same-sex couple case

Catherine Casserley represents same-sex couple Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy

The couple allege they were refused a hotel room on the grounds of their sexual orientation, read full news story on The Guardian 

Caspar Glyn represents club chain Stringfellows in an unfair dismissal claim by a freelance worker

The Daily Mail reports on 14 October 2010. 

Paul Michell acted for Sharon Coleman, a working carer with a disabled son, in a case that extend legal protection in the work place to the nation's six million carers

View the BBC's interview with Sharon on discrimination by association as the Equality Act 2010 comes into effect this month here.

Jason Galbraith-Marten viewpoint for The Times on religious versus equality rights, 16 September 2010

The Times online published this viewpoint from equality barrister Jason Galbraith-Marten questioning, in light of the Pope's address, whether decisions made by our own courts this year shift the ground in conflicts over religious, versus equality, rights.

Cloisters' barristers represent Gurkhas in their pensions appeal

Cloisters barristers' Declan O'Dempsey and Olivia-Faith Dobbie represent the retired Gurkhas in the Court of Appeal, BBC news reports.

Ed Williams explains why the BNP faces possible sequestration

In a viewpoint for The Guardian online law section Ed explains why BNP officials could face contempt of court proceedings in which their assets could be confiscated.

Daphne Romney is named Times Lawyer of the Week, 13 May 2010

The Times named Cloister's employment and discrimination barrister Daphne Romney QC Lawyer of the Week following her landmark equal pay case for hundreds of Birmingham City Council workers.