Pattinson & Brewer employment specialist Paul Statham voices serious misgivings over the new employment tribunal fees structure that the Government will bring in on 29 July, 2013…  (more…)

Pattinson & Brewer employment specialist Paul Statham was co-chair of the ELA (Employment Lawyers’ Association) working party which responded to the Government’s request for consultation regarding its planned reforms to the courts and tribunals subsidy system. The following press release has been issued by the ELA… (more…)

Felicia Epstein is an employment specialist from our London office and member of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER).  As part of the consultation process, she’s drafted a response to Government proposals changing the rules on collective redundancies… 

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Partner and employment law specialist Paul Statham has recently had an extended article published in the Sept/Oct 2012 edition of ‘ela briefing‘ (the Employment Lawyers Association)  … 

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Partner and employment law specialist Paul Statham explains why the Government’s money-saving proposals to introduce fees for claimants in employment tribunals will ‘tramp roughshod’ over individual employment rights… 

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The so-called ‘Justice Bill’ currently going through Parliament will cause massive problems for claimants in two major areas. By stopping conditional fee agreements (‘no win, no fee’) and recoverability of ATE (after the event) legal expense insurance in personal injury cases. And by removing legal aid in clinical neligence cases. (more…)