Employment & Discrimination

Ameer has acted in unfair dismissal, including constructive and automatically unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE-related, contractual bonus, Agency Workers Regulations, and unlawful deduction of wages claims. Ameer acts for both claimants and respondents in the employment tribunal and has acted in multi-day cases involving complex issues. Ameer also has experience in investigations, recently being involved in a high-profile grievance hearing conducted and led by a senior barrister.

Recent instructions include:

• Acted for the claimant in successfully arguing that the Scout Association had discriminated against an autistic child in removing him from the local Gangshow a few days before it was due to start. For more details see here.

• Led by a senior barrister for the claimant, a judicial office-holder, in a case involving worker status and the historic failure to pay holiday pay.

• Acted for the claimants in successfully arguing that theatre actors in a summer theatre production were workers and ought to have been paid the national minimum wage. The claimants challenged the status quo of vulnerable and underpaid actors being exploited and overlooked. For more details, see the judgment here.

• Acted for the claimant in successfully arguing that a COT3 agreement was void by reason of economic duress and that the terms of the COT3 agreement did not in any event cover the claims the claimant sought to bring. For more details, see article here.

• Acted for the claimant in obtaining a settlement for a cleaner that was dismissed after raising concerns about a lack of adequate PPE during the first coronavirus-related lockdown in March 2020.

• Acted for the claimant in successfully arguing that the claimant’s employment had not been transferred under the TUPE regulations, preventing the first respondent from evading liability.

• Acted for the claimant in a complex claim of discrimination, victimisation and breach of equal pay involving a high-profile bank across the period of two years of employment.

• Acted for the respondent in successfully arguing that the respondent’s decision to cut costs and cease to engage security guards for overnight shifts did not amount to a repudiatory breach of contract of a cleaner that was contracted to work night shifts.

• Acted in a number of judicial mediations which resulted in favourable settlements for the client. On one occasion, Ameer acted for the claimant in securing a six-figure settlement in a claim of extensive discrimination experienced in the British Army. On another occasion, the respondent client noted that she was “impressed” with Ameer’s approach and that he was “really well prepared… took the time to get to know the case… [and] was also very approachable”.

• Acted for the respondent in a multi-day trial concerning whether the respondent was in breach of regulations 5 (equal treatment, in this case in relation to pay) and 17 (victimisation) of The Agency Worker Regulations 2010.

• Acted for the respondent in a preliminary hearing concerning the worker/employee status of a lay representative of a trade union.

Ameer has also been regularly instructed in County Court discrimination cases in the context of goods & services and education. Recent instructions include:

• Acted for the claimant in successfully arguing that the Scout Association had discriminated against an autistic child in removing him from the local Gangshow a few days before it was due to start. For more details see here .

• Acted for a severely sight-impaired claimant in successfully resisting the defendant’s application under CPR Part 11 for a declaration therehat the Court had no jurisdiction to try the claim in the context of out of time service of the claim form and particulars of claim.

• Acted for a claimant with severe autism in successfully obtaining a settlement following the defendant’s failure to waive mask requirements for the claimant’s carer, thereby preventing both the claimant and his carer from entering onto the premises.

• Drafted the particulars of claim in a case involving the religious discrimination of a child in secondary school through the allegedly discriminatory use of Prevent and other local council safeguarding referrals.

Ameer is committed to pro bono work and furthering equal access to justice. Ameer has regularly represented claimants on a pro-bono basis and he has provided multiple pieces of written pro bono work for Advocate.

Personal Injury

Ameer also acts on behalf of the claimant in personal injury claims. He has been instructed to represent in the county court in fast-track trials, complex and high-value CCMCs, Stage 3 Hearings and applications for relief from sanction.

He has also been instructed to provide settlement approval advice for protected parties. Most recently, he has provided an infant approval advice in the context of a clinical negligence claim.

During his pupillage, Ameer provided the first draft of a schedule of loss in a complex multi-million pound claim, led by William Latimer-Sayer KC, in which liability had been admitted.

As a tenant, he has been independently instructed to provide multiple schedules of loss, involving a range of incidents from RTAs to work-place accidents.

Prior to Cloisters

Before undertaking pupillage, Ameer worked as a research assistant to Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart at the University of Oxford, helping her update chapters in the 33rd and 34th editions of Chitty on Contracts.

He has also obtained experience in the legal pro-bono sector whilst studying on the Barrister Training Course, volunteering as a Student Adviser at BPP’s Legal Advice Clinic and writing case summaries for the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE).