Employment & Discrimination

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The Employment Team at Doughty Street Chambers covers all areas of employment and discrimination work.

However, this team is particularly well regarded for its specialisations in:

• Collective labour law
• All types of discrimination cases (whether in the workplace or outside)
• Proceedings, including judicial review applications, involving public sector workers and office-holders.

Our team increasingly undertakes disciplinary and regulatory work across a wide range of professional and work groups.

Members appear in all courts and tribunals up to and including the House of Lords and the European Courts.

Members practise in other areas and the team is uniquely placed to draw on its expertise in these. Team members are listed in Chambers & Partners Directory 2009 across a range of subjects including

• administrative & public law
• civil liberties
• defamation/privacy
• police law
• local government & housing
• as well as for employment law.

The team includes an Employment Judge as well as specialist trainers on discrimination issues for the Council of Europe, TUC, Bar Council and the Legal Services Commission.

Team members are currently working on a major new equality and discrimination text for the Oxford University Press. In 2008, OUP also published Henrietta Hill's Promoting Equality and Diversity: A Practitioner's Guide.

Team Members

Cases

Recent cases include:

• The Staff Side of the Police Negotiating Board v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 1173 (Admin) Judicial review of the Home Secretary's refusal to implement the 2007 pay award of the Police Arbitration Tribunal.
• Oyarce v Cheshire County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 434 The reverse burden of proof in victimization claims
• Watt v Ahsan (HL(E)) [2008]ICR Jurisdiction of employment tribunals in race discrimination cases
• O'Hanlon v Revenue & Customs Commissioners (CA) (2007) ICR 1359 The Disability Discrimination Act and sick pay
• North Wales Training and Enterprise Council Ltd v Astley and others (HL(E)) [2006] ICR 992 Application of the Acquired Rights Directive
• CELTEC Ltd. v Astley and others (ECJ) [2005] ICR 1409 Interpretation of the Acquired Rights Directive

What the Directories say

Chambers & Partners Guide to the Legal Profession, 2007

Gavin Millar QC of Doughty Street Chambers enjoys a varied practice handling employment cases alongside his media, defamation and public work. He often represents public sector workers and office holders.