Addison Lee taxi drivers are workers not self-employed contractors and therefore entitled to the minimum wage and holiday pay, London Central employment tribunal held this week, in Lange v Addison Lee (unreported). Helen Wolstenholme, employment barrister at 2 Temple Gardens, said: ‘Following similar cases brought against Pimlico Plumbers, Uber and CitySprint, this is another example of an employment tribunal seeing through bogus self-employment. Tribunals are simply not prepared to see workers being deprived of basic rights.’ Meanwhile, Uber’s appeal against a finding that its drivers are workers has begun in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
28 September 2017
Drive carefully
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton
Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner
Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan
Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office
Blake Morgan—four promotions
Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices
NEWS
The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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