Archive for March 2016
Cloisters Employment is ranked in Who’s Who Legal: UK Bar
We are pleased to announce that barristers at Cloisters have been ranked in this year’s…
Read MoreRobin Allen QC and Jonathan Mitchell QC secure major victory for 6,500 women in equal pay dispute worth £100m
Robin Allen QC and Jonathan Mitchell QC successfully acted for thousands of women workers in…
Read MoreInterim payments in the clinical negligence context
By Jennifer Danvers In Sellar-Elliott v Howling [2016] EWHC 443 (QB) permission to appeal against an…
Read MoreExtension of Right to Shared Parental Leave….
Claire McCann considers this week’s announcement by George Osborne in the March 2016 budget to…
Read MoreSchool attendance awards: a poor lesson in tolerance to disabilities
Declan O’Dempsey and Siân McKinley consider the problems caused by school attendance award schemes. Some…
Read MoreDeclan O’Dempsey successfully argues that Prison Service sessional teachers are entitled to employment rights
A Cardiff Employment Tribunal has found that sessional teachers in the Prison Service were employees…
Read MoreNo childcare vouchers during maternity leave: upping the pressure during early months
Rachel Crasnow QC considers the recent judgment of the EAT in Peninsula Business Services v…
Read MoreLimits to the concept of ‘Associative Discrimination’
The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal or to make a referral to the…
Read MoreInvestor-State Arbitrations
Cloisters’ Sheryn Omeri will introduce the guest chair and guest speaker, O. Thomas Johnson, Judge…
Read MoreBeing deterred from membership of an independent trade union: Court of Appeal, again, considers the case of Mr Bone
Sarah Fraser Butlin reviews the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in the long-running…
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