Employment

The legal profession’s reaction to the King’s Speech yesterday focused as much on what is not in the government’s legislative priorities as what is.

A law firm owner unfairly dismissed a departing solicitor he accused of trying to poach clients through Facebook, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Law firms will need to rethink their approach to alcohol at events as part of preparing for the new positive legal duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

A trainee solicitor fired for raising concerns about her lack of supervision and the poor service clients were receiving from her firm has been awarded damages of £36,000.

An employment tribunal has made protective awards in favour of former staff of SSB Group, after they were made redundant without consultation.

A legal secretary has won her claim of sexual harassment against a law firm whose owner was jokingly described by a colleague as a “sexual predator”.

A fee-earner who has not complied with a court order to return documents taken from his former law firm has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for contempt.

A solicitor has been awarded damages of £26,475 after her law firm withdrew an offer of promotion and four weeks later summarily dismissed her because she was pregnant

An employment solicitor who failed to correctly name his law firm when bringing a claim against it for unfair dismissal has been ordered to pay £3,000 in costs.

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint about marketing material sent by an employment law business that looked like it was from a public body.

A law firm was entitled to withdraw a job offer from a man who was “rude and difficult” during an online onboarding meeting, an employment tribunal has ruled.

A law firm that electronically signed an inaccurate probation review document on behalf of a recently qualified solicitor without her approval wrongfully dismissed her.

The founder of an online employment law firm which specialises in settlement agreements has said he is planning to launch two similar ABSs – one for no-fault divorce and the other for conveyancing.

A solicitor apprentice who showed “utter disrespect, bordering on contempt” to an employment tribunal and her former employer has been ordered to pay costs of £7,200.

A police station representative at a North-East law firm was unfairly constructively dismissed after having problems with the partner who supervised her.