News for: Karen Moss

Matthew Curtis edits the Employment and Discrimination team's December newsletter

3rd December 2020

Matthew Curtis welcomes you to our last Employment and Discrimination newsletter of 2020 and thanks this month's contributors: Stephen Wyeth, Karen Moss, Colin McDevitt, Sarah Bowen, Lachlan Wilson, Andrew MacPhail and Joseph England. You will find this month’s newsletter packed full of 3PB news, analysis and case law updates, as well as our opening hours over the Christmas period. You are also invited to register to attend our 10 December webinar on 'Personal injury claims...

Colin McDevitt and Karen Moss present an update on whistleblowing

13th November 2020

3PB employment barristers Colin McDevitt and Karen Moss presented employment law webinar on 'Whistleblowing: key concepts, injunctions and updates on procedure' on 12th November. Topics covered include "Key concepts, interim injunctions and recent cases" and “Whistleblowing: latest procedural considerations; and what is a detriment?", including a number of key cases. You can watch the webinar on demand here:  

Chambers & Partners 2021 UK Bar directory lists a record nine of our employment barristers as leading Juniors in its latest edition. With one of our team ranked in the South Eastern Bar and the remaining eight ranked in the Western Bar, 3PB’s Employment and Discrimination group achieves an overall Band 2 rating in the Western Bar. The directory acknowledges ‘A set with an excellent profile in discrimination law and other employment issues. In addition...

Daniel Brown edits the Employment and Discrimination team's October newsletter

6th October 2020

Daniel Brown has edited 3PB's October Employment and Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Matthew Curtis, Sarah Clarke, Simon Tibbitts, Stephen Wyeth, Karen Moss, Grace Boorer, Lachlan Wilson, Grace Nicholls, Andrew MacPhail and Charlotte Hadfield. The newsletter brings you 3PB news, recordings as well as our case and legal analysis. You are also invited to register to attend our 8 October webinar on injunctions, restrictive covenants and team moves. Click here to view the newsletter. News...

Record Ten 3PB employment barristers ranked in latest Legal 500 edition

5th October 2020

The Legal 500 2021 Bar directory has listed a record ten of our employment barristers as leading Juniors in its latest edition, with the team achieving 15 rankings in total. Further, 3PB’s Employment and Discrimination group is ranked Top Tier in South Eastern, Tier 2 in Western and Tier 3 in London. The directory says that 3PB has a 'strong, client-focused employment group that is able to deliver strong advocates on short notice', with ‘accessible...

Employment barristers Karen Moss and Grace Boorer presented today's employment law webinar on disability discrimination. You can view the webinar below. Karen gave an updated overview of liability under Section 15 Equality Act 2010 including the most recent authorities. She focused on how tribunals approach a claim of discrimination arising from disability encompassing: Requisite knowledge under s.15 cf. failure to make reasonable adjustments, considering Baldeh v Churches Housing Association of Dudley and District and Tesco...

Joseph England edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Karen Moss, Daniel Brown, Grace Nicholls and Naomi Webber. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

Dr Gosalakkal v University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust  UKEAT/0114/18/DA In a judgment handed down on 4 July, Karen Moss represented the successful appellant who challenged a detailed assessment of costs of over £80k in the employment tribunal. HHJ Richardson gave the judgment of the EAT which found that the employment judge had misunderstood the degree of overlap between (1) the whistleblowing complaints in respect of which an order for costs was made, and (2)...

Karen Moss edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Mark Green, Sarah Bowen, Joseph England and Daniel Brown. Click here to read our News, Case Law Updates and book to attend one of our events.

An influential alliance of unions, charities and women’s rights group have campaigned this week to impose on employers a duty to prevent harassment in the workplace. On 26th June 2019 the petition was launched by the group called, This Is Not Working, including the Fawcett Society, Action Aid, Amnesty and Time’s Up UK. Their aim is the introduction of new legislation that would require employers to take preventative measures to stop sexual misconduct in the...

Karen Moss succeeded yesterday in the EAT in Baldeh v Churches Housing Association of Dudley & District Ltd UKEAT/0290/18/JOJ, persuading HHJ Shanks that where the original decision to dismiss was for disability-related reasons, without knowledge of the disability, but the appeal decision, upholding the dismissal was for the same reasons, with the requisite knowledge of a disability, that was actionable by an employee claiming to have been dismissed because of something arising in consequence of...

Karen Moss has successfully appealed a judgment which wrongly excluded all pre-termination negotiations pursuant to s.111A ERA 1996, when such negotiations were admissible for the purposes of determining whether there was a termination at all - Basra v BJSS Ltd UKEAT/0090/2017.