Our cryptocurrency specialists were recently successful in defeating an application by the other side for permission to spend from declared bank accounts and real estate by demonstrating that they had access to millions of pounds of cryptoassets. Here is the…
Uzair Zafar, Solicitor, and Lauren McLaughlin, Partner, in our London Employment Team secured an outstanding five-figure settlement for their client, totting up to over a year’s pay and more than the statutory cap on compensation for unfair dismissal claims. The…
Surveys carried out by a leading fertility benefit company in 2021 have revealed that 72% of employees felt that the impact of fertility issues on their working life was “high” or “very high”. A great proportion of employees also confirmed…
Employers who unfairly dismiss their employees on or after 6 April 2022 may need to dig a little deeper, as the maximum compensation payable to former employees successful in bringing a claim for unfair dismissal at the Employment Tribunal has…
Employers need to be aware that workers can carry over annual leave, whether it has been taken or not taken by the worker, and where it has not been paid, even where the employer did not recognise that they were…
Lauren McLaughlin, Partner in our Employment Team, assisted and advised the Claimant in bringing a pregnancy and maternity discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010. The claim was resolved early in Employment Tribunal proceedings. Achieving a fair six-figure deal, early…
By its very nature, litigation can be a stressful process and an uncertain time for those involved. You will likely have been through an already stressful and worrying period, leading to your potential claim. The litigation process itself, be it in the Courts or Tribunals, is long,…
Last month, Novak Djokovic flew to Australia to take part in the Australian Open tennis tournament. Upon arrival, the world number one was refused entry clearance and found himself transferred into immigration detention for failing to provide appropriate evidence to…
Jessica Bass and Lauren McLaughlin today hosted a webinar outlining all the changes coming to employment law in 2022.
Our team recently resolved a long-running divorce case, where proceedings were first initiated over 10 years ago. The parties had previously acted in person, and whilst Decree Nisi (the half-way point in divorce proceedings) was pronounced in 2003, neither party…