Case Study
We have helped numerous employers and their advisers deal with this campaign effectively and with minimum legal costs.
Case Study 1
In 2008, a small recruitment company received an Employment Tribunal Claim Form out of the blue claiming that the words ´recent graduate´ on a job advert on their website amounted to age discrimination. Partners Employment Lawyers were instructed and it soon became clear that this Claimant was on some kind of ´mission´. Even though he had not applied for the position, ´Mr B´ was making threats to report the employer to all kinds of institutions, the press and even Trevor Phillips (Head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission). Soon after, the requests for a monetary settlement started to follow.
Asked how many of these claims ´Mr B´ had brought, the reply was initially a ´couple´ but a check of the Register of Decisions at Bury St Edmunds revealed the truth - there were no less than 17 cases disposed of by Tribunals all across England and Wales. Confronted with this, ´Mr B´ then accepted that he had brought ´under 50´ such claims and that he had received settlements in the region of £500 to £2000 for many of these.
A strike out hearing was set by the Tribunal and shortly before it, the Claim was withdrawn but even then, a request for £150 was made!
Since then, by conducting updated searches on ´Mr B´ we have helped numerous employers and their advisers deal with this campaign effectively and with minimum legal costs. However, ´Mr B´ is not alone, there are others following this tried and tested formula.
Case Study 2
We were asked to search for cases ET judgments against a well-known bank. We found approximately 80 cases in the last few years, of which a high proportion were sex discrimination claims.
When presented with this evidence the bank quickly became aware of the problems it would have in defending a sex discrimination claim and settled out of court.