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C4J Update: 23/06/2022

Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

As you will be aware, litigation is as much an art as it is a science, and its progress is often influenced by ‘noises off’ or events which occur out of the view of the mainstream. Nevertheless we have been working assiduously over the last few months and shall shortly be issuing ‘Letters Before Action’ […]

C4J Lawyer Speaks

Thursday, May 12th, 2022

PURPLE BRICKS: The Legal Claim on Behalf of Contractors for Justice. Aidan Loy is a seasoned employment law litigator and has been engaged by Contractors for Justice to pursue the claim against PurpleBricks and others on behalf of former and current estate agents (LPEs) for compensation for lost holiday and pension payments. It is argued […]

Smith v Pimlico Plumbers: Round Two

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

Gary Smith has already achieved legal fame through succeeding in the Supreme Court in Pimlico Plumbers v Smith [2018] ICR 1511. That case, holding him to be a “worker” for the purpose of the Working Time Regulations (WTR), established a new guiding principle for how courts should approach substitution clauses. After some bumps along the way (see […]

Covid – Rules tightened in UK following discovery of new variant

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

New measures and restrictions have been introduced this week as new Covid variant ‘Omicron’ has been identified as a serious health threat in the follow up to Christmas What do we know about Omicron? Due to the Omicron strain being discovered very recently, there is little information on the new strain of Covid. According to […]

Stuart Delivery Ltd v Augustine – Court of Appeal upholds decision that Claimant is a worker

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

The Court of Appeal has upheld earlier decisions of the ET and EAT in yet another Gig Economy case The appeal in question concerns the status of a courier delivering goods via moped, in which the ET held that the claimant was a worker. Once the Claimant had signed up for a time slot during […]

8 Suicides linked to HMRC pay demands surrounding the Loan Charge

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

LOAN CHARGE – Contractors and the Self-employed continue to be affected over ‘disguised remuneration schemes’ It has come to light in recent days that 8 suicides in the UK have been linked to taxpayers that were subject to payment demands issued by HMRC under the 2019 Loan Charge. Over the past year there has been […]