News & Events: Ezra Macdonald
Annual Property Update – Winchester 2022
Pump Court Chambers Property Team are pleased to invite you to our Annual Property Law Update, providing a valuable and in-depth seminar for all practitioners. Our barristers will review notable recent decisions and provide practical analysis and advice designed to give an up to date overview of all key issues and law, practice and procedure. Details are […]
Sexual orientation discrimination update
Discrimination or harassment is totally unacceptable from a moral and legal standpoint – in society and at work. Despite this, it continues to be an issue that clients, employers and solicitors see time and time again. In this free lunchtime webinar to coincide with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, counsel Daniella Gilbert and Ezra Macdonald will provide […]
Annual Property Law Seminar Winchester
Pump Court Chambers Property Team are pleased to invite you to our Annual Property Law Update, providing a valuable and in-depth seminar for all practitioners. Our barristers will review notable recent decisions and provide practical analysis and advice designed to give an up to date overview of all key issues and law, practice and procedure. […]
Ezra Macdonald appointed fee-paid judge of the Employment Tribunals
We are thrilled to announce Ezra Macdonald has been appointed a fee-paid judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) and will be deployed to Wales. Called to the Bar in 2012, Ezra maintains a broad employment practice, at both first instance and appellate levels, and has a particular interest in the interaction between employment law and his […]
How to Claim Constructive Dismissal Webinar
In ‘How to claim constructive dismissal‘ Ezra Macdonald reviews notable recent decisions and provide practical analysis and advice designed to give an up to date overview of all key issues and update delegates on law, practice and procedure. To download a copy of the slides which accompany the webinar please click here. Topics include: Constructive […]
How to claim constructive dismissal
Pump Court Chambers Employment law team are pleased to announce their annual round of webinars, providing a valuable and in-depth update seminar for all practitioners at intensive lunch time sessions. In ‘How to claim constructive dismissal‘ Ezra Macdonald will review notable recent decisions and provide practical analysis and advice designed to give an up to date overview of […]
Remote hearings and witness evidence
Remote hearings come with particular difficulties. One obvious difficulty is that the parties cannot see each other as well as they might in the courtroom. But how much of a problem is this? If the demeanour of witnesses (or indeed parties) is relevant to an issue to be decided by the Court, then restrictions on […]
Employment Team – COVID-19 Coronavirus Update
These are unprecedented times and Chambers is seeing a significant increase in questions being raised by workers, employees, and employers alike. This post is intended to provide some outline guidance for the position as we see it, with links to useful information. It is not a substitute for formal legal advice – and if you […]
Employment Law Seminar – Reading
Pump Court Chambers Employment team is pleased to announce our annual Reading Employment Law Seminar providing a valuable and in-depth update for all practitioners. Venue Crowne Plaza, Caversham Bridge, Richfield Avenue, Reading, RG1 8BD Topics Time limits – how to prepare cases whatever the situation Remedies in the ET a look at injury to feelings, Polkeyand […]
Poole Employment Law Seminar
Pump Court Chambers Employment team is pleased to announce our annual Poole Employment Law Seminar providing a valuable and in-depth update for all practitioners. Venue Harbour Heights Hotel, Haven Road, Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, BH13 7LW Topics Time limits – how to prepare cases whatever the situation Remedies in the ET a look at injury to […]
Can the Employment Tribunal limit the number of discrimination claims at one hearing
“Only with great caution”, said the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Tarn v Hughes (& Ors) UKEAT/0064/18/DM – and the EAT then went on to give some helpful guidance on case management of discrimination claims. In Tarn , the claimant GP had brought a large number of complaints of discrimination against her (former) partner GPs. At […]
New rules for termination payments made on, or after, 6 April 2018
HMRC is changing the way that termination payments are taxed. Previously (subject to some caveats) one would expect the first £30K to be tax-free, and pay-in-lieu-of-notice (“PILON”) payments to be subject to tax only where there is a contractual entitlement to them. From 6 April 2018, some termination payments – or at least, some parts […]