Employment

A one-time trainee solicitor has failed in her bid to recoup from her former firm the fees she paid to study for and sit the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.

A judge has dismissed a claim from a solicitor apprentice who showed “utter disrespect, bordering on contempt” to an employment tribunal and her former employer, Mishcon de Reya.

An employment tribunal has struck out a solicitor’s breach of contract claim based on an agreement to transfer his practice to another firm, which was then to employ him.

A solicitor has had his employment claim against his former firm reinstated in large part because it failed to copy him into its correspondence with the tribunal.

A campaign group has urged the legal profession to support legislative reform to stop the abuse of non-disclosure agreements.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has taken action of differing levels of severity in 24 cases where misconduct in relation to non-disclosure agreements was alleged, it has emerged.

Private equity business Inflexion has made its latest investment in legal services by acquiring one of the largest employment law businesses in the country.

An employment tribunal has criticised the conduct of a solicitor in bringing a race discrimination claim after not making it through the sift stage for a judicial appointment.

An associate solicitor has won her claim for unfair dismissal over the way her then law firm employer handled her return to work after maternity leave.

A former managing partner has been ordered to pay costs for trying to mislead an employment tribunal in his claim against his firm.

The Ministry of Justice has launched plans to bring back “modest” employment tribunal fees of £55 per case, seven years after the Supreme Court ruled that a previous scheme was unlawful.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected an appeal from a barrister expelled from chambers after posting a tweet about a “stroppy teenager of colour”.

A barrister who caused her assistant to suffer a mental and physical “collapse” has been ordered to pay her over £155,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal.

A former employee of City giant Hogan Lovells tried to cause “maximum disruption” to the law firm in bringing employment tribunal proceedings, “perhaps as some form of revenge”.

A solicitor made redundant after her work on the Grenfell Tower disaster ended has won a claim for unfair dismissal because her law firm did not properly consider another role for her.