News and INsights

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Rachel Crasnow QC in victory for Labour Party: High Court rules Courts will not micromanage disciplinary processes: Neslen & Others v Evans

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Rachel Crasnow QC records a podcast on reform of Shared Parental Leave with Discrimination specialists Morton Fraser LLP

Cloisters 12/02/2021 Cloisters 12/02/2021

Cloisters' barristers to speak at “Thirty Lawyers answering your questions on thirty Employment Law Topics”

Cloisters 12/02/2021 Cloisters 12/02/2021

Cloisters' barristers amongst co-authors of Blackstone’s Guide to the Equality Act 2010

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Rachel Crasnow QC and Sarah Fraser Butlin advise MP about discrimination and student loans

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Covid-19: Legal implications of identifying immune workers

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Covid-19: Pay for working parents forced to look after their children

Cloisters 25/06/2019 Cloisters 25/06/2019

Will the new radical Work-Life Balance Directive help UK parents and carers?

Cloisters 07/11/2018 Cloisters 07/11/2018

Judgment handed down in the case of O’Brien v Ministry of Justice

Cloisters 26/07/2018 Cloisters 26/07/2018

“No DSS”: Can landlords and letting agents lawfully bar benefits tenants?

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Are new initiatives to tackle age discrimination on their way?

Cloisters 14/05/2018 Cloisters 14/05/2018

EAT upholds courier worker status: Addison Lee v Gascoigne

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Tribunal erred in rejecting Shared Parental Leave claim

EAT allows appeal: ET erred in its dismissal of indirect discrimination claim. Rachel Crasnow QC, specialist in workplace rights, considers the latest appeal in the Shared Parental Leave saga.

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Such a clear dividing line? Maternity Leave and Shared Parental Leave: the EAT judgment in Ali v Capita

On 11 April 2018 the EAT overturned the direct discrimination finding of the Tribunal in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd concerning whether employers who offer enhanced maternity pay must also offer enhanced Shared Parental Pay. Rachel Crasnow QC considers the judgment in this blog. Cloisters' Chris Milsom acted for the intervener Working Families in the appeal.

Cloisters 20/03/2018 Cloisters 20/03/2018

Third edition of Employment Law and Human Rights published

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Reflecting on International Women's Day: A view from Cloisters by Rachel Crasnow QC

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New Paper by Rachel Crasnow QC, Discrimination Law in 2018: Pregnancy, Maternity and Parental Rights

Employment specialist Rachel Crasnow QC has published a new paper entitled Discrimination Law in 2018.

Cloisters 21/02/2018 Cloisters 21/02/2018

The gender pay gap: why its removal is a priority for today’s workplace

Rachel Crasnow QC will deliver a talk on the gender pay gap at a conference designed to give up-to-the-minute strategies and practical guidance to legal professionals.

Cloisters 19/02/2018 Cloisters 19/02/2018

Job interviews “ripe territory” for maternity discrimination

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has today published a new study revealing the extent of maternity and pregnancy discrimination in recruitment.

Cloisters 23/01/2018 Cloisters 23/01/2018

Cloisters sponsors the launch of the Fawcett Society Sex Discrimination Law Review

Cloisters is delighted to announce sponsorship of the launch of the Fawcett Society Sex Discrimination Law Review.

The Fawcett Society, the UK’s leading charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights, will launch the findings of a landmark, year-long review of UK equalities legislation early in the new year.