Devereux Chambers

Podcast: The COVID-19 Standing Working Group
Posted on 28 April, 2020 in Employment by Harry Sheehan Peter Edwards
The Devereux Employment team are pleased to launch their brand new podcast series. Every fortnight, a new episode exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK Employment Law will be released. ...

Read more >
Limiting liability for wages during furlough
Posted on 21 April, 2020 in Employment by Sam Way
In the first case addressing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the High Court reviewed whether contracts of employment had been successfully varied to limit an employer’s liability to pay wa...

Read more >
Whistleblowing Beyond your Employer: Coronavirus and the NHS
Posted on 16 April, 2020 in Employment by Alice Mayhew Samuel Nicholls John Platts-Mills
The NHS has always proved fertile ground for employment litigation, and particularly complex whistleblowing claims. In this second of our two-part examination of whistleblowing issues in a COVID...

Read more >
Whistleblowing in a coronavirus (COVID-19) world
Posted on 09 April, 2020 in Employment by Alice Mayhew Samuel Nicholls John Platts-Mills
In layman’s terms, whistleblowing is the raising of a concern, either within the workplace or externally, about a danger, risk, malpractice or wrongdoing. From Dr Li Wenliang to Captain Brett Cr...

Read more >

Blog Archive