News & Events
News & Events
We are delighted to announce that Outer Temple Chambers has been shortlisted across 12 areas, including ‘Set of the Year’ for Chancery, Clinical Negligence, Employment, Financial Services, Personal Injury, and Professional Disciplinary & Regulatory at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2025. The Legal 500 Bar Awards seek to recognise the highest quality chambers as a whole across England and Wales, as well as all people within them. The awards celebrate the finest barristers, chambers, and legal expertise, bringing together some of the brightest minds in the industry. The Legal 500 Bar Awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London. Set Awards We are proud to share that we have been shortlisted for…
News 19 Jun, 2025
Join us at our inaugural London event, part of the Pensions Law Conference Series, on Thursday 10th July 2025 at Glaziers Hall. After successful stops at Bristol and Manchester, you are invited to join the Outer Temple Chambers Pensions Team at the last stop of this year’s conference series in London on Thursday, 10th July at Glaziers Hall over breakfast. The event will consist of a series of presentations and panel discussions, followed by networking. Topics of discussion include: In conversation: The practical significance of Verity Trustees Causation and loss in pensions professional negligence cases Mansion House and all that: the Pension Schemes Bill and the changing legal landscape for pension scheme investment The Regulator & moral hazard – Case…
Lydia Seymour and Elizabeth Grace have successfully argued that two Belfast doctors, Dr. Durkan and Dr. O’Neill, are entitled to holiday pay from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, following a long-standing dispute. The case, which was a test case backed by the BMA and heard by the former President of the Northern Irish Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal, is likely to determine the terms of employment for a significant number of sessional Out-of-Hours GPs in the region. The background to the case was that sessional Out-of-Hours GPs had originally been deemed self-employed by the Trust; however, in 2017 HMRC determined that they were employees. The Trust viewed them as workers, and acknowledged they were entitled to holiday…
News 6 Jun, 2025
Outer Temple’s Pensions Law experts Keith Bryant KC, Nicolas Stallworthy KC, David E. Grant KC and Lydia Seymour will be speaking at the APL Conference 2024, taking place from 20th November to 22nd November in Brussels. We are delighted to share that our Pensions Law experts Keith Bryant KC, Nicolas Stallworthy KC, David E. Grant KC and Lydia Seymour will be speaking on Thursday 21st November at the three-day APL Conference in Brussels, that will start off with a welcome reception on Wednesday evening, 20th November. Nicolas Stallworthy KC will be chairing three talks from 11:00am to 1:00pm on: ‘The case for CDC and practical learnings from Royal Mail’, ‘Dealing with surplus – and looking at discretions’, and ‘Pensions Increases…
News 15 Nov, 2024
We are proud to announce that Outer Temple Chambers has been shortlisted across 16 areas, including ‘Set of the Year’ for Clinical Negligence, Employment, Personal Injury, Sport, and Technology Data & Crypto at The Legal 500 Bar Awards. The Bar Awards, presented by The Legal 500, celebrates the finest barristers, chambers, and legal expertise, bringing together some of the brightest minds in the industry. The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 25th September 2024, at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London. Set Awards We are delighted to share that we have been shortlisted for the following Set Awards: Clinical Negligence Set of the Year – Outer Temple Chambers Employment Set of the Year – Outer Temple Chambers Personal Injury Set of the…
News 9 Jul, 2024
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has handed down judgment in the case of NSL v Zaluski, in which Lydia Seymour and Elizabeth Grace successfully acted for the Appellant. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has handed down a detailed judgment overturning an Employment Tribunal’s finding of indirect race discrimination in relation to an employer’s annual leave policy during the Covid pandemic. The EAT also overturned an award of aggravated damages but upheld a finding of harassment related to race. In NSL v Zaluski [2024] EAT 86, the employer adopted an annual leave policy during the pandemic which required employees to factor in any relevant period of quarantine as a result of the pandemic. If an employee exceeded the authorised period of leave, even…
News 25 Jun, 2024
Richard Hitchcock KC and Lydia Seymour acted for the successful Claimant in Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees & Ors, an important Chancery Division authority on the consequences of powers in pension scheme trust deeds being exercised partly outside their scope. The case concerned an amendment to remove members’ entitlement to a final salary link to their accrued benefits, where the amendment power contained a Re Courage – type restriction, but where ultimately some members had done better and some worse by reason of the amendment. The Court concluded that the members who had benefitted by the amendment would retain their more valuable benefits even if the amendment was invalid in relation to those who had lost out. The Judgment,…
News 19 Jan, 2024
Event Date: 18 Apr, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers’ employment specialists, Andrew Allen KC and Lydia Seymour will be speaking at the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) event taking place on Thursday 18th of April 2024. Details on how to register for the virtual event can be found below. The Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) is an apolitical organisation representing the views and interests of just over 6,000 specialist, qualified employment lawyers in the UK. Members are drawn from all branches of the legal profession and include barristers and solicitors who act for employers and employees, trade unions, the voluntary sector, industry and the judiciary. Our members have regular involvement with ELA. Employment specialist, Peter Linstead, is part of the ELA training committee. About the event Andrew Allen…
Join Outer Temple Chambers at the Marriott Delta Hotel, Bristol for an afternoon of pensions law talks at the first stop of this conference series around the country. You are invited to join Outer Temple Chambers in Bristol for the first stop of our Pensions Law Conference 2023 series. Topics will include: an actuary’s role in Section 67 certification, age discrimination and the EU Withdrawal Act 2018, the presumption of regularity, and notable non-pensions cases for pensions lawyers. The event will be rounded off with a panel discussion comprised of Outer Temple’s silks. Agenda 1.30pm – Registration (tea and coffee on arrival)2pm – Consultation with the scheme actuary and Section 67 Certification. Wherehas Mitchells & Butler left Us?Lydia Seymour &…
Events 4 Apr, 2023
Outer Temple’s Lydia Seymour analyses the recent decision in CRAFT v POPE. Directors’ Duties – remedies when property is taken in breach of duty. Lydia Seymour, who was instructed by Hugh James, acted for the successful Claimant in CRAFT (Ceredigion Recycling and Furniture Team), an important Chancery Division decision on remedies in cases involving misappropriation of company assets by Directors. This is a useful decision on how remedies should be determined in a situation in which company directors have wrongfully converted company property to themselves—should the property simply be returned in full, or is it open to the directors to argue that they should have credit for sums that they would have received had they acted in accordance with their duties? In this…
Legal Blogs 26 Sep, 2022
Lydia Seymour has been asked to write an Opinion for the LGPS Scheme Advisory Board on the issue of whether local authorities need to offer a sharia-compliant alternative to the Local Government Pension Scheme. A number of LGPS member authorities had observed that some employees were opting out of the LGPS on the basis of their religious belief, particularly people of the Muslim faith who were concerned that LGPS funds/investments were not Sharia-compliant. At present there is no alternative pension provision from these employers other than the LGPS. The board therefore commissioned a report and asked Lydia to advise on the risk of a successful claim for discrimination or human rights challenge from an employee complaining of a failure by…
Legal Blogs 3 May, 2022
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked some of our female barristers about their experiences and what they think of being a woman in the legal industry. Some people may still have the impression that law is a man’s game but this is not the case any more. The Bar is becoming more and more diverse and representative of the real world and women now make up over 38% of the industry according the the Bar Council. This figure has steadily increased over the last two decades but there is still a long way to go. So, to mark International Women’s Day, and in keeping with this year’s theme #BreakTheBias, we thought we would ask some of our female barristers…
News 8 Mar, 2022
