Employment Law

David Reade QC has contributed to this Collaborative View with members of other Chambers.

Day 10 - Littleton Updates on Employment Tribunal Practice

David and Daniel examine some of the legal and practical challenges which employers face in connection with the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Tribunal list of issues and Gay Servicemen case 20 years on

National Minimum Wage – Deductions, Reductions and Loans. Important EAT Guidance as to Procedure and the Scope of Regulation 12 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 (“NMWR”)

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Three members of Littleton namely David Reade QC, Niran De Silva and Georgina Leadbetter have been named in The Lawyer’s top appeals of 2020 https://www.thelawyer.com/revealed-the-top-appeals-of-2020/

Employment tribunals have particular expertise in dealing with matters relating to disability, including mental health conditions, and are generally well-equipped to ensure that litigants with mental health conditions are able to participate in proceedings to the fullest extent possible.

The EAT has handed down its judgment in Basfar v Wong UKEAT/0223/19/BA, holding that the defence of diplomatic immunity applied in circumstances where the Claimant alleged she had been trafficked by her diplomat employer. However, it also granted the Claimant the first ever ‘leapfrog’ certificate direct from the EAT to the Supreme Court, and the matter looks set to continue.

Mo Sethi QC and Sophia Berry in first ever leapfrog appeal from EAT to Supreme Court