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Employment law brief: 10 October 2025

10 October 2025 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8134 / Categories: Features , Employment , Discrimination , Tribunals , Limitation
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Employment tribunal litigation is an adversarial business: Ian Smith spars with the importance of proper pleadings, time limits in discrimination cases & novel anonymity claims
  • Recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decisions highlight procedural issues in employment litigation, including time limits in discrimination claims, the importance of properly pleading a case, and the rules around anonymity orders.
  • Key rulings clarified the distinction between continuing acts vs one-off events, reinforced the claimant’s responsibility to plead their case, and extended the scope of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 to tribunal proceedings.

One aspect of the recent case law on employment law, fully reflected in this month’s brief, is the preponderance of cases on matters of procedure. Cases on substance of course crop up, but are often just examples of well-established rules or guidelines, some going back anything up to 40 years ago.

While it is important not to give these an importance that they do not merit by reporting them—if only to retain an element of sanity for hard-pressed

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

BCL Solicitors—Robert Lawrie

BCL Solicitors—Robert Lawrie

Commercial disputes team lead promoted to partner

Mourant—Tom Fothergill

Mourant—Tom Fothergill

Jersey finance and corporate practice welcomes new partner

Shakespeare Martineau—Solicitor apprentices

Shakespeare Martineau—Solicitor apprentices

Firm launches solicitor apprenticeship programme with inaugural cohort

NEWS
Government plans for offender ‘restriction zones’ risk creating ‘digital cages’ that blur punishment with surveillance, warns Henrietta Ronson, partner at Corker Binning, in this week's issue of NLJ
Louise Uphill, senior associate at Moore Barlow LLP, dissects the faltering rollout of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 in this week's NLJ
Judgments are ‘worthless without enforcement’, says HHJ Karen Walden-Smith, senior circuit judge and chair of the Civil Justice Council’s enforcement working group. In this week's NLJ, she breaks down the CJC’s April 2025 report, which identified systemic flaws and proposed 39 reforms, from modernising procedures to protecting vulnerable debtors
Writing in NLJ this week, Katherine Harding and Charlotte Finley of Penningtons Manches Cooper examine Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26, the Supreme Court ruling that narrowed what counts as matrimonial property, and its potential impact upon claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
In this week's NLJ, Dr Jon Robins, editor of The Justice Gap and lecturer at Brighton University, reports on a campaign to posthumously exonerate Christine Keeler. 60 years after her perjury conviction, Keeler’s son Seymour Platt has petitioned the king to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy, arguing she was a victim of violence and moral hypocrisy, not deceit. Supported by Felicity Gerry KC, the dossier brands the conviction 'the ultimate in slut-shaming'
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