Flexible and Hybrid Working in the UK: One Year on from the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is the professional body for human resources. CIPD has released a new report, alongside a series of case studies, assessing the state...
Practice Direction 36zi – Pilot Scheme: Notification to The Police When Certain Orders Are Made Under Part 4 of The Family Law Act 1996
(PLEASE NOTE THIS PD COMES INTO FORCE 14 JULY 2025 )
This Practice Direction supplements FPR Part 36, rule 36.2 (Transitional Arrangements and Pilot Schemes).
Scope and interpretation
1.1 This Practice Direction is made...
Campaigners Call for Urgent Overhaul of Parental Leave in the UK
Maternity leave
A parent has the right to up to 52 weeks' maternity leave if they are having a baby and are legally classed as an employee. They have this...
EAT Upholds Tribunal Costs Award in Pandeli Ltd & Gold Panda Ltd v O’Keefe: Scope of “Conduct of Proceedings” Clarified Under Rule 76
In the recent decision of Pandeli Ltd & Gold Panda Ltd v Ms H O’Keefe [2025] EAT 47, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), presided over by Lord Fairley, has provided a significant...
New Employment Tribunal Rules 2024: What Practitioners Need to Know
The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (SI 2024/1155) ('ETPR') will come into force on 6 January 2025, replacing the current rules set out in Schedule 1 of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution...
Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination: Assessing Injury to Feelings
Sadia Shakil v Samsons Ltd [2024] EAT 192
The recent case of Sadia Shakil v Samsons Ltd [2024] EAT 192 addresses key issues surrounding the assessment of injury to feelings. The Employment Appeal Tribunal...
Recent updates: New Neonatal Leave and Pay for Working Families
The Department for Business and Trade has announced that a new right to neonatal leave will come into effect from 6 April 2025, providing critical support for working parents with...
Judgment Analysis: HKW v CRH [2024] EWFC 358 (B)
Cohabitation, marital assets, and post-separation gifts in financial remedy proceedings.
Case Background
The parties married in 2007. The wife (W) asserted that they began cohabiting in 1993, while the husband (H) contended that cohabitation started in 2004. Both parties had...
Employment Tribunal did not err in law in holding that a driver using a black cab app was not a worker for the respondent
Johnson GT Gettaxi (UK) Ltd [2024] EAT 162:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6718d30138149ce9d09e38ca/Mr_C_Johnson_v_GT_Gettaxi__UK__Ltd__2024__EAT_162.pdf
In a recent decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that a black cab driver using the Gettaxi mobile application platform is not...
New Acas Guidance on the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has issued new guidance on the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, also known as the Tipping Act 2023, and its accompanying Code of Practice. This...
EAT Ruling Extends Indirect Discrimination Claims to Claimants Without Particular Protected Characteristics
Rollett v British Airways [2024] EAT 131
Judgment on 15 August 2024
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a claimant can pursue an indirect discrimination claim even if they do...
Tribunal Confirms Fair Dismissal for Poor Performance: Similarities and Differences Between Capability and Misconduct Dismissals
Kikwera-Akaka v Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd [2024] EAT 49
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the fair dismissal of a Claimant employed by the Salvation Army’s trading arm, which operates...
Milroy v MoD: Tribunal Ruling Could Grant Army Pensions to Thousands of Reservists
Major C Milroy v Advocate-General for Scotland: 4103202/2020
Date of judgment: 5 August 2024
A retired major, Charles Milroy, has won a significant case against the Ministry of Defence (MoD), potentially paving...
Labour has pledged to introduce employment legislation within its first 100 days in government – including the ‘right to switch off’
Before securing its victory, Labour set out in its manifesto a comprehensive plan to update employment law, with a promise to introduce legislation within 100 days.
Labour’s biggest proposals included:
Banning exploitative...
Court of Appeal considers the all-important distinction between an appeal lodged out of time and one lodged in time, but with documents missing.
When lodging a notice of appeal within the time limit, but the documents necessary to institute an appeal are missing, could the appeal be considered in time or out of...
STOP PRESS : KFK v DQD [2024] EWFC 78 (B)
“How much sorrow and cost might these parties have spared themselves if they had each been willing to approach things differently?” [269]
In a case where both parties failed to provide...
Ms X v Mr Y [2023] EWHC 3170 (Fam) (11 December 2023)
Removal of father's parental responsibility and judicial comment on management of highly contentious private law proceedings.
Facts:
By the time of this final hearing, proceedings alone had been going on for more...
Supreme Court rules Deliveroo riders not entitled to collective bargaining: how this judgment on a judicial review challenge crosses over into employment law.
The Supreme Court handed down the decision on 21 November 2023 for Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (Appellant) v Central Arbitration Committee and another (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 43. The...
No.18 Chambers Welcomes Helen Moizer as a Tenant (2018)
Helen joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2023, after successful completion of her pupillage under the supervision of Nigel Cholerton. During her pupillage and since joining Chambers, Helen regularly...
Helen Moizer successful in the EAT: The Sports PR Company Ltd v Ms Valentina Londono Cardona: [2023] EAT 110
Helen Moizer successfully represented the Claimant in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) and was instructed by the Free Representation Unit on a pro bono basis. “The FRU...
Helen Moizer, is taking part in the Pupil Pledge with Advocate
We are proud that our second six pupil, Helen Moizer, is taking part in the PupilPledge with Advocate! We encourage fellow pupils to commit to one piece of probono in...
Chat GPT: legal decision making and consideration of its reliability
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, recently gave a lecture for the Law and Technology conference on 14th June 2023 exploring the effect that generative AI is already...
Appeal allowed as participation directions not considered for vulnerable party
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary have published the judgment of Her Honour Judge Nott from the Family Court at Reading in the case M v S, which took place on...
Helen Moizer (2018) is available to accept instructions as of 3rd April 2023
No 18 is delighted to announce that Helen Moizer will complete her first sixth as of the 31st March 2023 and is available to accept instructions as of the 3rd...
Court of Appeal due to hear child’s ‘failure to remove’ claim under the Human Rights Act.
On 6 September 2022, the Court of Appeal agreed to hear an appeal of a claim that both Worcestershire County Council ('WCC') and Birmingham City Council ('BCC') failed to remove...
