In George Mantides Ltd v HMRC [2025] UKUT 124 (TCC), the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) has upheld a FTT decision that a locum urologist’s contract with a hospital qualifies as employment for tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) purposes, despite an earlier decision misconstruing the nature of the arrangement. Pro Employment LawFormed in… >>
Insiders who tip off investigators to serious tax avoidance by large companies and rich elites will be paid a cut of any money the UK tax enforcer claws back under a new policy proposed by the government. HMRC will launch a new reward scheme for informants late this year, targeting corporate, wealthy individuals as well… >>
Pleas to the UK government from businesses to scale back its employment law reforms appear to have gone almost entirely unheard after workers’ entitlements in the Employment Rights Bill (ERB) were bolstered on 4 March 2025. Pro Employment LawFormed in 2017, following significant legislative changes designed to increase competition within the legal services marketplace, Pro… >>
On 6 March 2025, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Costantine [2025] UKSC 9. In a unanimous judgment given by Lord Lloyd-Jones, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding that, considering the principles in Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan [2017] UKSC… >>
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consultation on reducing restrictions on the senior banker remuneration regime, which opened in November 2024, concludes on 13 March 2025. Pro Employment LawFormed in 2017, following significant legislative changes designed to increase competition within the legal services marketplace, Pro Employment Law is a progressive set… >>
A teaching assistant has lost his religious discrimination claim against a school that dismissed him for openly sharing his opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, with a tribunal ruling that the institution had to protect its reputation. Pro Employment LawFormed in 2017, following significant legislative changes designed to increase competition within the legal services marketplace,… >>
There was no need for the claimant’s dismissal claim to be remitted to the employment tribunal as the tribunal would be bound on the particular facts to find that the claimant’s dismissal was not objectively justified and, accordingly, that it constituted unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. The claimant’s beliefs that gender is binary… >>
An employment tribunal erred in law by awarding a claimant a ‘manifestly excessive’ £10,000 award for injury to feelings following a successful claim of maternity discrimination, and by failing adequately to explain why it awarded the amount it did, according to the EAT in Eddie Stobart v Graham. The EAT substituted an award of £2,000… >>
In McMahon v AXA ICAS [2025] EAT 8, the EAT faced a number of issues on appeal around the payment due from a deduction of wages as well as a disability discrimination claim which was struck out by the employment tribunal. The respondent also cross-appealed a decision on deduction of wages, arguing that there was… >>