News & Events: Employment & Discrimination
Louisa Simpson to speak at the annual Employment Lawyers Association Conference 2025
Pump Court is pleased to announce that Louisa Simpson will be participating in the annual Employment Lawyers Association Conference on Thursday 15th May 2025. She will be speaking in a session put together by ELA’s Junior Committee (of which she is a member) titled “Who you Gonna Call? Junior MythBusters”, alongside Chris Jones (Paul Hastings LLP), Mehran Kamranfar […]
Fergus McCombie, leading Louisa Simpson, successful in the Court of Appeal – no whistleblower protection for job applicants
P Sullivan v Isle of Wight Council (Department of Business and Trade and Protect intervening) [2025] EWCA Civ 379 On 19 and 20 February 2025 Fergus McCombie appeared in the Court of Appeal, leading Louisa Simpson, for the Isle of Wight Council. The matter concerned an appeal from the Employment Appeal Tribunal, in summary as […]
Pump Court Chambers Annual Southampton Employment Law Seminar 2025
Pump Court Chambers is delighted to invite you to their seminar on Wednesday 25th June 2025 from 1.00pm – 5.00pm which is tailored to those specialising in Employment & Discrimination law. Members of our Employment & Discrimination Law team will cover the following topics: Session 1: Employment Law in 2025: Key Legislative Updates (slides) Speaker: Emma […]
Pump Court Chambers welcomes four new tenants
We are delighted to announce that Rukan Hazar, Palak Sikri, Isabella Thomas-Kelly and Emily Chapman have accepted offers to join chambers, following the successful completion of their probationary tenancies. Rukan Hazar (2019 call) accepts instructions at all stages of litigation in family, civil, and criminal proceedings. In family proceedings, she accepts instructions in matrimonial finance, […]
Neurodiversity in the Workplace
In this episode of the Civil Law Podcast, Louisa Simpson speaks with Kira Mountain, specialist Employment Solicitor at Trethowans, about neurodiversity in the workplace. A fitting topic, as 17-23 March 2025 is Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Kira and Louisa discuss some of the different conditions falling under the umbrella term ‘neurodiversity’; how and when these might […]
Case summary – Kristie Higgs v Farmor’s School [2025] EWCA Civ 109
Executive Summary This case concerned the appeal of an employee who had been dismissed from her employment at a school for posts she made on her Facebook profile. One post opposed the teaching that gender is fluid and not binary. The other post contended that same-sex marriage cannot be equated with traditional marriage between a […]
The walk of shame
Employment Tribunal decisions don’t normally make very good clickbait. But the recent case of Mrs H Selkin v Opico Limited, in which I represented the Claimant, is an object lesson for employers in the importance of considering the reputational damage that can arise from having embarrassing allegations set out in a public Judgment. Background The […]
Heather Platt successfully represents Direct Public Access client in disability discrimination claim
Heather Platt represented Nikos Foster, a former prison officer who worked at HMP The Mount in his disability discrimination claim heard by Employment Judge Cowen and members at Watford Employment Tribunal. In April 2015, the Claimant witnessed a shocking attempted murder between prisoners, he thought the prisoner was going to die. He started to show […]
MBL Seminar: A Guide to Employment Law for Personal Injury Lawyers
Speakers: Emma Sole Date: This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 20th March 2025 Venue: London SRA Competency: B CPD: 1.25 hours Level: Intermediate: Requires some prior subject knowledge Introduction Having familiarity with fundamental employment law principles is an extremely useful tool in the armoury of any personal injury lawyer; it can […]
Heather Platt successfully defends EAT appeal
Heather Platt successfully defended an appeal in the EAT brought by an autistic teacher against an independent SEN school: Ms K Kaler v Insights ESC Ltd: [2024] EAT 195. The former teacher was dismissed in 2018 for conduct for sending several emails over an issue in relation to her pay that were said to be […]
Pump Court Chambers Annual Employment Law Seminar – Canterbury 2025
Pump Court Chambers specialist Employment team is delighted to invite you to their Annual Employment Law Seminar in Canterbury on Thursday 13th February 2025 from 1.00pm – 5.00pm. Members of our Employment & Discrimination Law team will cover the following topics: “Don’t Leave Me This Way” – Ending partnerships, breach of contract, springboard injunctions and […]
Rebecca Paterson joins Pump Court as a tenant
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Rebecca Paterson has accepted an offer of tenancy, following the successful completion of her third six pupillage/probationary tenancy. Rebecca is a civil barrister specialising in employment, regulatory & disciplinary. Prior to joining chambers, Rebecca completed pupillage and practised in-house at a large healthcare regulatory body. Rebecca appears […]
