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Charles Pigott explores reasonable adjustments, trial periods & alternative employment

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

Employment tribunal litigation is an adversarial business: Ian Smith spars with the importance of proper pleadings, time limits in discrimination cases & novel anonymity claims

A council’s database for homeless applicants was found not to be discriminatory against women, write Kelvin Rutledge KC & Genevieve Screeche-Powell

Writing in NLJ this week, Kelvin Rutledge KC of Cornerstone Barristers and Genevieve Screeche-Powell of Field Court Chambers examine the Court of Appeal’s rejection of a discrimination challenge to Tower Hamlets’ housing database

Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ

Charles Pigott on how the courts are applying the For Women Scotland ruling

A local authority council tax scheme ‘double counted’ a disability pension and carer’s allowance, the High Court has held

Taking the recent heatwave in his stride, Ian Smith (not pictured) introduces the Magnificent Six

Lawyers have called for mandatory gender pay gap reporting to be extended to cover race and disability when the government brings forward its Equality (Race and Disability) Bill

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NLJ Career Profile: Ben Daniels, DAC Beachcroft

Ben Daniels, newly elected as the next senior partner of DAC Beachcroft, reflects on his leadership inspiration and considers an impish alternative career

Osbornes Law—Lee Henderson

Family team bolstered by latest partner hire

Freeths—Graeme Danby & John Jeffreys

Firms strengthens national restructuring and insolvency practice with leadership appointments

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NLJ this week: Cross-UK precedent, umbrella companies & whistleblowing liability

In NLJ this week, Ian Smith, emeritus professor at UEA, explores major developments in employment law from the Supreme Court and appellate courts

NLJ this week: Assignment of arbitral award enforcement blocked

Writing in NLJ this week, Kamran Rehman and Harriet Campbell of Penningtons Manches Cooper examine Operafund Eco-Invest SICAV plc v Spain, where the Commercial Court held that ICSID and Energy Charter Treaty awards cannot be assigned

NLJ this week: A Christmas plea for speed

Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School highlights a turbulent end to 2025 in the civil courts, from the looming appeal in Mazur to judicial frustration with ever-expanding bundles, in his final NLJ 'The insider' column of the year

NLJ this week: Transparency reforms set to transform access to justice

Antonia Glover of Quinn Emanuel outlines sweeping transparency reforms following the work of the Transparency and Open Justice Board in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Hard line drawn on vague points of dispute

In Ward v Rai, the High Court reaffirmed that imprecise points of dispute can and will be struck out. Writing in NLJ this week, Amy Dunkley of Bolt Burdon Kemp reports on the decision and its implications for practitioners

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Discrimination

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Ben Daniels, DAC Beachcroft

Osbornes Law—Lee Henderson

Freeths—Graeme Danby & John Jeffreys