News & Events
News & Events
The 10th edition of the Employment Law Handbook has been published with the General editor, Daniel Barnett, and contributors, Chevan Ilangaratne and Sophie Hyland, from Outer Temple Chambers’ employment team. The 10th edition of the Employment Law Handbook deals with the biggest change in employment law for a generation: the Employment Rights Act 2025. The changes since the last edition are huge. Statutory sick pay, parental leave and paternity leave became day one rights on 6 April 2026. From October 2026, tribunal time limits double from three to six months, and the duty to prevent sexual harassment becomes a duty to take all reasonable steps, extended to harassment by third parties. From 1 January 2027, the unfair dismissal qualifying period…
External Publications 9 Oct, 2026
Event Date: 20 Oct, 2026
Join Andrew Allen KC, Chevan Ilangaratne and Jessica Franklin for the second instalment of our Employment Lawyers Talks Series on 20th October 2026. As the second part of our Employment Lawyers Talks Series, aimed at those under 10 years PQE, this seminar will provide a ‘Whistlestop tour’ update on the law of whistleblowing and the practical steps both Claimants and Respondents need to consider in the run-up to an Interim Relief Hearing. The session will feature discussion of scenarios based on real cases and will be followed by a Q&A. Following the Q&A you are invited to stay for networking drinks. Agenda 17:30 – Registration 17:45 – 18:45 – Seminar 18:45 – 20:00 – Networking To book onto this event,…
Martina Murphy KC was featured as a speaker at the recent online conference ‘Implementing the Employment Rights Act 2025: Where Are We Now?’. Specifically, Martina covered ‘Guaranteed Hours, cancelled shifts and the new contractual rights’. The conference, organised by Michael Rubenstein Conferences, brought together seven of the UK’s top employment law KCs to ‘provide authoritative up-to-date guidance on the Act and its practical implications’. In addition to Martina’s talk, other topics covered include new guidance on harassment, changes to the law on industrial action and trade unions, changes to dismissal law, parental rights and sick pay, and fair pay agreements. For more information on this conference, click here. Find Out More Martina Murphy specialises in employment, group litigation and professional…
News 7 Jul, 2026
Outer Temple Chambers’ Naomi Cunningham’s article ‘The Equal Treatment Bench Book: pronouns and principle’, published in ELA Briefing. ELA Briefing is the monthly magazine published by the Employment Lawyers Association, bringing together articles, updates and cases across employment law. Naomi has also been published in the magazine in the past. The Equal Treatment Bench Book, first produced by the Judicial College in the early years of this century, has the commendable aim of assisting judges ensure that they manage hearings in a manner that is sensitive to the diversity of parties and witnesses. In this article, Naomi first outlines the changes between 2003 and 2026 and then draws some conclusions for practitioners in this area. Read the full article here.…
External Publications 3 Jun, 2026
Twelve of Outer Temple’s barristers have been ranked in the 2026 Lexology Index: UK Bar, across three categories. The Lexology Index: UK Bar rankings features the leading barristers and solicitors at the UK Bar who stand out for their exceptional advocacy work across an array of practice areas. Therefore, we are delighted to share that twelve of our barristers have been ranked across the Aviation & Travel, Labour Employment & Immigration, and Sports categories, in 2026. Aviation & Travel The following barristers have been ranked in the Aviation & Travel category: Eliot Woolf KC Ben Bradley KC Sarah Crowther KC Gerard McDermott KC Aliyah Akram Daniel Clark Labour Employment & Immigration The following barristers have been ranked in the Labour…
News 1 May, 2026
We are delighted to announce that Andrew Short KC has been shortlisted for ‘Barrister of the Year’ at The Lawyer Awards 2023. The Lawyer Awards have been the ultimate stage for legal mastery in the UK, honouring top-notch lawyers and powerhouse firms across diverse areas. Andrew Short KC’s practice centres on pensions, employment, and general commercial work. He has acted in many of the leading employment cases relating to discrimination in pay and pensions, including Abdulla v Birmingham City Council, Brierley v Asda, McCloud v Lord Chancellor, and Sargeant v LFEPA. His recent notable pensions cases have included the landmark case of Lloyds Banking Group Pension Trustees Ltd v Lloyds Bank [2030] EWHC 3135 (Ch), Britvic PLC v Britvic Pensions Ltd & Mohun [2021] EWCA Civ 867 and…
News 5 May, 2023
The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Clark and Others in which the successful claimants were represented by Andrew Short KC and Saul Margo. In this long-running equal pay claim against Sainsbury’s Supermarket, a number of the claimants brought their claims on a claim form that only contained one EC number relating to one of the claimants on the form. The claims were rejected on that basis, but the claimants successfully appealed to the EAT where it was held that it is sufficient if one EC number is given on the claim form for any claimant who brings a claim on the same form. Sainsbury’s appealed against the order of the EAT. Court of Appeal In…
News 6 Apr, 2023
Outer Temple’s Andrew Allen KC and Naomi Cunningham presented at our ‘After Forstater: Sex and Gender in the Workplace’ seminar on 21st September 2022. The slides and full video of the talk are now available. Barristers Andrew Allen KC and Naomi Cunningham, who both specialise in Employment & Discrimination, spoke at the recent ‘Sex and Gender in the Workplace Seminar’. This event provided advice for both employers and employees on how to approach the current gender critical debate in the workplace by focussing on recent case law and the practical measures that employers can or must do. The Discussion Andrew Allen KC, joining remotely, opened the event with a short tour of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality…
Webinars 7 Oct, 2022
Join Outer Temple Chambers and guests for an upcoming seminar hosted by Andrew Allen QC and Naomi Cunningham named ‘After Forstater: Sex and Gender in the Workplace’. This will take place on Wednesday 21st September 2022. You are invited to join Outer Temple Chambers for a discussion hosted by Andrew Allen QC and Naomi Cunningham on sex and gender in the workplace and employment law. Within the talk, Andrew and Naomi will analyse recent legal developments and provide practical tips and advice. This event will be useful for both claimant and respondent solicitors. The event is hybrid and will take place at Outer Temple Chambers in London on Wednesday 21st September 2022 from 6 pm – 7:30 pm as well…
Events 22 Jul, 2022
Outer Temple Chambers has been nominated by The Legal 500 Bar Awards as Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury and Employment Set of the Year. Additionally, barristers Saul Margo and Oliver Powell have been nominated respectively for Chancery Junior and Corporate Crime Junior of the Year. Legal 500 Set of the Year We are delighted to announce that Outer Temple Chambers has been nominated by The Legal 500 Bar Awards for Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury and Employment Set of the Year 2022! Our Clinical Negligence barristers cover various claims involving doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals. We are frequently instructed in the most demanding and highest value cases, including birth injury and other serious neurological injuries. Legal 500 has stated that…
News 6 Jul, 2022
Will Young and Courtney Step-Marsden are instructed (by Didlaw) on behalf of the Appellant (the Claimant) in an appeal concerning automatic unfair dismissal for “whistleblowing”. This will be held on Thursday 26th May in the Court of Appeal. Will Young and Courtney Step-Marsden are instructed on behalf of the Appellant (the Claimant) in an appeal concerning automatic unfair dismissal for “whistleblowing”. More specifically, the case concerns the extent to which an employer can legitimately dismiss a whistleblowing employee for conduct associated with her protected disclosures without it being found that the disclosures are the reason for dismissal. Ms Kong, Head of Financial Audit for the Respondent international bank, made protected disclosures in the course of her employment. She was subsequently…
News 24 May, 2022
Representing the Respondent operators of the Mytaxi app (now called Free Now), Andrew Short QC and Peter Linstead have successfully opposed the Claimant’s appeal to the EAT of a decision that a London Hackney carriage driver using the taxi app was not a ‘worker’ when using the app to source and transport passengers. Introduction In a decision handed down on 18 January 2022 in Christopher Johnson v Transopco UK Ltd [2022] EAT 6, the EAT upheld the decision of the employment tribunal, where Peter Linstead appeared unled for Transopco, that although the driver had an obligation of personal service, the operator was a ‘client or customer’ of the driver’s business for the purposes of s.230(3) of the Employment Rights Act…
News 24 Jan, 2022
