Employment Law

In a judgment of the Manchester Employment Tribunal handed down yesterday members of Littleton succeeded in a TUPE claim involving the transfer of physiotherapy services from the English Institute for Sport by the same being brought in-house by GBT. In addition the Claimant raised whistleblowing allegations as regards athlete safety involving the over-training of Olympic athletes.

On 30 August 2019, the DIFC’s new Employment Law (“the New Law”) came into force.

Littleton is delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories at the Chambers Bar Awards 2019

Grahame Anderson edits Practical Law entry on Illegality in Employment Contracts

Littleton’s Chris Quinn represents Spearmint Rhino and nine of their performers, in ongoing litigation against a campaigning organisation who filmed them secretly, in an effort to expose breach of the Club’s licensing rules .

David Reade QC and Grahame Anderson successfully represented the Claimant in defending an appeal against employer’s appeal from the EAT decision in Okedina v Chikale. The case looks at the issue of the impact of illegality, through lack of immigration status, on the claims of a domestic worker. David and Grahame were instructed by Freshfields Bruckhaus

Littleton’s Chris Quinn is representing two senior executives pursuing a claim in the High Court against their former employers, PNC Global Logistics on the basis that they were wrongfully dismissed

Littleton's Naomi Ellenbogen QC publishes report following enquiry into culture in the House of Lords

David Reade QC appeared for the Claimant in Simpson v Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, UKEAT/0016/18/DA, 21 June 2019 (Choudhury P)

The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd (“EZ”), which is the first employment competition case to have reached the highest court in the land in over 100 years. Adam appeared on behalf of the Appellant, EZ, who were successful in their appeal.