ELBA’s Secretary, Deshpal Panesar has enlisted his colleagues at Old Square Chambers to field no fewer than six teams in the 2013 Virgin Active London Triathlon to raise money for the Free Representation Unit.
You can find more information on the FRU website.
Or, if you just want to chip in to help one, or all, of the teams, their justgiving pages are: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 5 and Team 6.
Papers from our recent talk on the Employment Tribunal Rules 2013 are now available:
A practical approach to the Employment Tribunal Rules 2013 — Employment Judge Taylor
ELBA’s 2013 election results were announced at our AGM on 15th May 2013.
Our newly elected members of the committee are: Ben Cooper, Rachel Crasnow, Martin Griffiths QC, Jane McCafferty, Deshpal Panesar, Diya Sen Gupta, Mohinderpal Sethi.
They join the committee members now in the second year of their two year term: Richard Leiper, Jude Shepherd and Gavin Mansfield QC.
The committee appointed the following officers:
Chair: Richard Leiper
Vice-Chair: Gavin Mansfield QC
Secretary: Deshpal Panesar
Treasurer: Diya Sen Gupta
Colin Bourne (Northern Liaison) and Michael Reed (Free Representation Unit) were co-opted to the committee.
Nominations are invited for membership of the committee of the Employment Law Bar Association to be received by 5pm on Tuesday 16 April 2013.
There are 6 vacant positions. If there are more than 6 nominations an election will follow.
Nominations must be in writing and be signed by the candidate indicating their willingness to serve on the committee and be signed by a proposer and a seconder.
The candidate, proposer and seconder must be members of the association.
Nominations must be sent to the Returning Officer:
Gavin Mansfield QC
Littleton Chambers
3 Kings Bench Walk North
Temple
London EC4Y 7HR
DX: 1047 Chancery Lane
Alternatively a scanned nomination may be sent by email to ghm@littletonchambers.co.uk.
The slides from President Latham’s talk are now available to download.
The President of Employment Tribunals, Judge David Latham will be speaking on the New Rules on 6th March at the LSE New Academic Building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, starting at 6pm.
On 15th May the AGM will be addressed by Mickey Rubenstein (topic to be confirmed) at Gray’s Inn, starting at 6pm.
Daniel Stilitz QC, of 11KBW, spoke to ELBA on Legal, Litigation and Without Prejudice Privilege on 17th January 2013.
On 16th October 2012 Helen Mountfield QC gave a talk on ‘Public Sector Equality Duties: Where are we now?’.
The slides for her talk are available to download: Public Sector Equality Duties.pdf.
Oxford University Press is offering 20% off its law books for members of ELBA. To take advantage of this offer, go to: www.oup.com/uk/sale/alelba11
The Annual General Meeting of the Employment Law Bar Association will take place on 29th May 2012 at 6.00 pm in the Bingham Room, Gray’s Inn. It will be followed by a talk from His Honour Judge Richardson entitled “EAT Advocacy – the view from Catergory B”