Jul 5, 2022 | Employment Law
The Employment Tribunal is set up so that an individual Claimant can bring their respective claims against a single respondent or a number of named Respondents. Whilst judges when dealing with a litigant in person will seek to navigate an individual Claimant through...
Jun 22, 2022 | Employment Law
The Court of Appeal (CoA) recently passed judgments in two statutory appeals against IR35 assessments in the cases of Kickabout Productions Ltd v HMRC [2022] EWCA Civ 502 and Atholl House Productions Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 501. At para 56 in Atholl House, Sir David...
Jun 6, 2022 | Employment Law
19th July 2021 saw the United Kingdom open back up in what was dubbed “Freedom Day” following careful navigation of the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown. Resultantly, employers could see a marked increase in formal flexible working requests going forward,...
Feb 28, 2022 | Employment Law
Who are ACAS and what is ACAS early conciliation? ACAS is an impartial form of mediation and ACAS early conciliation (as explained on ACAS’ website): “We offer talks to try and make a legal agreement without going to an employment tribunal” ACAS early conciliation is...
Feb 28, 2022 | Employment Law
Why should parties agree to a judicial mediation? The headline statistic is that over 65% of cases mediated reach a successful settlement on the day of mediation itself. Further many more cases settle prior to the final hearing as the judicial mediation has brought...
Feb 28, 2022 | Employment Law
As a firm we act on a number of insurance backed claims both for Respondents and Claimants. For the purpose of this blog, I will focus attention on a potential Claimant looking to bring an employment tribunal claim. Funding options One of the most daunting prospects a...
