Employment Law Webinar Series - January to April 2025

42BR's Employment Team is delighted to present the first four of our 2025 webinars, covering a variety of employment law topics.

Please note, you will need to register for each webinar individually using the links below.

Session 1

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Section 19A of the Equality Act 2010: a brand new cause of action?

Iris Ferber KC & Stefan Liberadzki

In our first Employment webinar of 2025, Iris Ferber KC and Stefan Liberadzki discuss the new section 19A right: what it means, how it works, who can use it, what the reported cases say about it, and whether it can really be called “associative indirect discrimination”

'Section 19A of the Equality Act 2010: a brand new cause of action?' Recording

Session 2

Wednesday 19 March 2025

Schedules of Loss and Settlement: Don’t take your chips down when you’re up 

Alex Lawson & Alexander Adamou

In this session Alexander Adamou and Alex Lawson give an informative talk on how to properly plead a schedule of loss and how to avoid some of the most common pitfalls and traps. Additionally, they cover a number of useful strategies to use when approaching settlement and correspondence as well as ways to maximise your clients' benefit in settlement agreements.

'Schedules of Loss and Settlement: Don’t take your chips down when you’re up' Recording

Session 3

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Mind the Gap: If you are not on the list you are not getting in!

Gillian Crew & Karolina Zielinska

In this webinar, Gillian and Karolina discuss proposals for reform of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010, focusing on possible gaps in the coverage provided by the existing legislation and what new aspects of identity, personhood and societal standing, if any, ought to be protected from discriminatory conduct.

'Mind the Gap: If you are not on the list you are not getting in!' Recording

Session 4

Tuesday 1 April 2025

‘Mind if we have an off the record chat?’ The without prejudice rule in ET litigation and the role of ‘protected conversations’

Sam Healy & Amy Stroud

To conclude the first half of our Employment Law Webinar Series 2025, Sam and Amy look at how employers (and employees) can explore settlement of workplace disputes without landing themselves in hot water in any subsequent ET proceedings.

‘Mind if we have an off the record chat?’ The without prejudice rule in ET litigation and the role of ‘protected conversations’ Recording

Sessions 5, 6 & 7 will be released in April 2025, covering the period of May to July 2025.

If you have any questions or queries relating to this series, please do not hesitate to contact us.

1st Apr 2025