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Susan Belgrave
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Call: 1989
Education: BA (Hons) 1981 Languages (Interpreting and Translation) Heriot-Watt University; MSc(Econ) International Relations 1986 London School of Economics; LLB(Hons) 1988 University of the West Indies; Inns of Court School of Law, London 1989; Licence speciale en droit europeen (avec distinction) 1992 Universite Libre de Bruxelles. |
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Employment
Advocacy and advisory work regularly undertaken on behalf of both Claimants and Employers. She has extensive experience in the areas of public sector law including local government, nhs trusts, education and housing sectors. Susan is instructed by the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, trade unions and a number of local authorities and is currently Co-ordinator of chambers' employment team.
Areas of work include:
· All types of discrimination claims – sex, race and disability discrimination as well as discrimination on the grounds of religion, age and sexual orientation, pregnancy rights and equal pay claims;
· Redundancy;
· Unfair dismissal;
· TUPE;
· Restrictive covenants;
· Working time; and
- Whistleblowing.
Public Law
Advocacy and advisory work on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants in the County Court and by way of judicial review and local government work including education and environmental judicial review. This includes advisory work in relation to European law and issues arising under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Cases
Amachree v Wandsworth Council (2010) Successfully defended Wandsworth Council against claims for religious discrimination and unfair dismissal brought by Christian employee who had advised a service user with a terminal illness that she ought to put her faith in God and had later breached client confidentiality.
V v P Ltd (Nov 2008) ET Successfully defended respondent company against claims of race and sex discrimination. Respondent awarded maximum sum of £10,000 in costs against claimant whose behaviour was deemed unreasonable. Joseph v SFO (2008) ET successfully represented claimant at remedies hearing where claimant as a litigant in person had won her claim for unfair constructive dismissal and disability discrimination. Claimant had been sidelined after her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer and was still undergoing treatment at date of hearing. Hachette Filipacchi UK Ltd v Johnson IDS Brief 804 May 2006 (EAT and ET) Extent of employer’s duty of consultation while employee at risk of redundancy where employee had been moved from substantive position to work on special project. Successfully represented claimant where tribunal found, upholding its original decision on remission, that the employer should have consulted Claimant on whether she wished to return to her original position when it was decided that the project was not commercially viable.
Rahmeh & Naguib v Joint Committee for Higher Medical Training, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Department of Health EAT 2005. On behalf of the RCOG and JCHMT, successfully resisted appeal when two doctors alleged that the system for being placed on specialist register for consultant status was racially discriminatory.
Soon v Bank of China (2002) ET. Represented manager of branch who alleged race and sex discrimination when manager from mainland China was put in charge of the office.
Hazlehurst v Governors of Warwick Park School (Court of Appeal 2001). Successfully appealed finding that school governors had racially discriminated against three black school teachers in failing to shortlist them for senior management posts. Examines the basis on which a tribunal can legitimately make a finding of unconscious discrimination.
Virdi v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (August 2000) remedies (December 2000). Successfully represented Asian police officer wrongly accused of disseminating race hate mail to ethnic minority officers on Ealing division. Sgt Virdi was awarded a record sum of £150,000 damages for injury to feelings.
Mock v Commission of Inland Revenue [1999] IRLR 785 EAT. Time limit for institution of an appeal before the EAT.
Hicking v Basford Home Fashion (December 1998). Equal pay claim – instructed by the EOC on behalf of Mrs. Hicking before the Nottingham employment tribunal. This case was later consolidated with Levez before the EAT on the question of the removal of the two year limit on equal pay claims.
Ridout v TC Group [1996] IRLR 628. Claimant suffering from photosensitive epilepsy attending for interview. Extent of the prospective employer’s duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Disability Discrimination Act.
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Publications
Books
Remedies in Employment Law, Law Society Publishing (2009) with Philip Jones.
Employment Lawyer’s Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998, Jordans 2000 (co-author).
Practitioners’ Handbook of EC Law, Trenton Publishing 1998
Contributor to book produced by Bar European Group and the Bar Council.
Nuisance and Harassment, Lemos Publications 1995.
Contributor to Sweet and Maxwell’s Encyclopaedia of Employment Law.
Contributor to EOC’s adviser website.
A selection of published articles
Wright & others v Secretary of State for Health [2009] UKHL 3 ELA Briefing March 2009
Reconciling conflicting discrimination strands- religious beliefs v sexual preferences News @9 January 2008 ‘Streamlining discrimination law’ ELA Briefing May 2006.
‘Jarndyce v Jarndyce revisited’ Journal of the Discrimination law Association March 2006.
‘How has it been for you, dear? Tribunal rules start to bite’ ELA Briefing July 2005.
‘Putting the genie back into the bottle… injury to feelings revisited’
Discrimination Law Association February 2003.
'Tribunal tribulations' The Lawyer November 2001.
'A thin blue line across racism?' The Times 6 February 2001.
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Interests
My family, reading, watching the sunset over the Caribbean Sea, tennis.
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