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Nathaniel Caiden 13/07/2018 Nathaniel Caiden 13/07/2018

Court of Appeal in Mencap: The end of minimum wage for sleep-ins when asleep?

Cloisters 11/07/2018 Cloisters 11/07/2018

Trafficking victim awarded High Court damages in minimum wage and harassment claims

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Algorithms, apps & artificial intelligence 2: Can data protection laws be used to challenge discriminatory tech

Cloisters 04/06/2018 Cloisters 04/06/2018

Algorithms, Apps and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier in Discrimination Law?

Declan O'Dempsey 24/05/2018 Declan O'Dempsey 24/05/2018

Lender not obliged to offer different service as reasonable adjustment (Green vSouthern Pacific Mortgage Ltd)

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Sir Stephen Sedley publishes Law and the Whirligig of Time

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Catherine Casserley instructed for severely disabled boy suing theme park

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Cloisters awarded Well-being Certificate of Recognition

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EAT upholds courier worker status: Addison Lee v Gascoigne

Cloisters 09/05/2018 Cloisters 09/05/2018

Celebrating the newest edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book

Rachel Crasnow KC 02/05/2018 Rachel Crasnow KC 02/05/2018

Tribunal erred in rejecting Shared Parental Leave claim

EAT allows appeal: ET erred in its dismissal of indirect discrimination claim. Rachel Crasnow QC, specialist in workplace rights, considers the latest appeal in the Shared Parental Leave saga.

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Supreme Court to hear 'Gay Cake' case this week

Cloisters 25/04/2018 Cloisters 25/04/2018

What is the price of a breach of covenant?

Cloisters 25/04/2018 Cloisters 25/04/2018

Senior civil servant wins employment case against the Commonwealth Secretariat

Nathaniel Caiden 25/04/2018 Nathaniel Caiden 25/04/2018

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2018] UKSC – what are the implications of the Supreme Court’s judgment?

Cloisters 19/04/2018 Cloisters 19/04/2018

ELA Annual Conference 2018

Cloisters 19/04/2018 Cloisters 19/04/2018

Equality Law after Brexit

Cloisters 17/04/2018 Cloisters 17/04/2018

New instruction for Cloisters from the Labour Party

The Labour Party has instructed Tom Gillie, Rachel Barrett and Nathan Roberts from Cloisters to advise it in relation to ongoing sensitive internal complaints of alleged anti-semitism and sexual harassment against party members.

Cloisters 17/04/2018 Cloisters 17/04/2018

Patricia Hitchcock QC and Jacques Algazy QC appointed recorders

Patricia Hitchcock QC and Jacques Algazy QC have both been appointed to sit in the Crown Court.

Rachel Crasnow KC 12/04/2018 Rachel Crasnow KC 12/04/2018

Such a clear dividing line? Maternity Leave and Shared Parental Leave: the EAT judgment in Ali v Capita

On 11 April 2018 the EAT overturned the direct discrimination finding of the Tribunal in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd concerning whether employers who offer enhanced maternity pay must also offer enhanced Shared Parental Pay. Rachel Crasnow QC considers the judgment in this blog. Cloisters' Chris Milsom acted for the intervener Working Families in the appeal.