Called to the Bar: |
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| • | 2001, Middle Temple | |
Education: |
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Adam Ohringer |
• | LLB University College, London |
Specialities: |
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| • | Employment Law | |
| • | Personal Injury | |
| • | General Common Law | |
| • | Social Security Law | |
| Memberships: | ||
| • | Employment Law Bar Association | |
| • | Personal Injury Bar Association | |
| • | Legal Action Group | |
Cases: |
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| • | McDougall v Richmond Adult Education College [2008] IRLR 227, Times Law Reports (Court of Appeal 22 February 2008) - Approach to be taken by the Tribunal when considering recurring symptoms for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. | |
| • | The London Fitness Consultancy v Hickman (EAT, 9 June 2005) - Appeal against an Employment Tribunal's refusal to admit new evidence by way of a review. | |
| • | Tamborino v Kuypers (EAT, 13 Oct 2005) - Consideration of whether a letter to the Employment Tribunal should have been construed as a withdrawal of the claim. | |
| • | Flett v Matheson EAT [2005] ICR 1134. Decided that people working under the government's Modern Apprenticeship Scheme are not apprentices as recognised in law | |
| • | El-Hoshi v Pizza Express Ltd. [2004] All ER (D) 295; IDS Brief 768/9 - Established the principle that by taking sick leave and receiving sick pay an employee cannot be deemed to have affirmed his employment following a repudiatory breach by his employer. | |
| • | Descombes and another v Firthglow Ltd. (t/a Protectacoat) [2004] All ER (D) 415 - Concerned the definition of an 'employee'. | |
| • | John Wyndham t/a John Wyndham Hair Care v K.L. Miller (EAT, 1 July 2003) - Confirmed that even small employers must provide an opportunity to appeal against dismissal and refused to follow Tiptools Ltd. v Curtis [1973] IRLR 276. | |
| • | Sands-Ellison v One Call Insurance [2003] All ER (D) 389, EAT - Concerned penalty clauses in contracts of employment. | |
| • | Elkouil v Coney Island Ltd. [2002] IRLR 174 - Changed the established practice for awarding compensation in unfair redundancy cases where the employer fails properly to consult with the affected employees. | |
| Publications | ||
| • | Article for 'Adviser' issue 94, published by the National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux on the availability of non-pecuniary damages for unfair dismissal. | |
| • | Article for 'Adviser' issue 90, which considered how the EAT decision in Elkouil developed a new head of damages for unfair dismissal. | |
| • | Wrote and published 'Redundancy and Your Rights', now in general circulation in job centres, libraries and other information points throughout southwest London. | |
| • | Co-author of 'The Regional Contribution of HIgher Education'. Also wrote a comprehensive report entitled 'Business Service Provision by Universities in the South East' for the Department of Trade and Industry and the South East Development Agency. | |
| • | Dissertation entitled 'Freeing Posner from his Capitalist Chains' published in UCL Jurisprudence Review 1999. | |
| Other Information | ||
| • | Worked for the Fulham Legal Advice Centre for over two years, representing clients before the Employment Tribunal and Social Security Appeals Tribunal. He is now a trustee of the Centre. | |
| • | Legal Services Commission Supervisor in Employment Law. | |
