Bruce Frew
Year of call: 2005
areas of practice
synopsis
Employment law
Bruce Frew is a Specialist Employment practitioner representing Claimants and Respondents both at first instance and in the EAT. Experienced in all aspects of discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE, whistle blowing, minimum wage, restrictive covenants and equal pay. Regularly instructed in multi-week, high value and complex cases.
Recent work includes cases on commercial agency, religion and belief discrimination, pregnancy/maternity discrimination and detriment on the ground of trade union activity. Bruce has been instructed on complex multi-party redundancies, trade union detriment, multiple claims involving redundancy and age discrimination and high value equal pay and public interest disclosure cases.
Immigration and Asylum
Previously a member of the Immigration Advisory Service, Bruce has extensive experience in Asylum Appeals and Entry Clearance Appeals, (Family and Dependants, Students and Workers, etc).
Contract/Property
The remainder of his work consists of general civil litigation.
notable cases
- Azmi v Kirklees MBC [2007] UK EAT 0009 : religion and belief discrimination - school teacher wearing a veil at work
- Harris v NKL Automotive Ltd [2007] UK EAT : religion and belief discrimination - whether Rastafarianism constitutes a "religion" for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976)
- Eddie Stobart Ltd v Moreman and Others UKEAT/0223/11/2T : Successfully represented the Respondent at EAT (Claimant at the ET) - test on meaning of organised grouping under TUPE
- Callow Building Services Ltd v Mr C P Anthony : Successfully represented the Appellant at the EAT (Respondent at the ET) on conduct and contribution to dismissal
- Warby v Wunda Group Plc UKEAT/0434/11/LEA : Successfully represented the Respondent (both at ET and EAT) where ET were entitled to find that an accusation of lying about miscarriage was not pregnancy harassment.
- East Midlands Trains Ltd v Mr D M Hogg UKEAT PA/0906/11/RN : Successfully represented the Respondent at the EAT (Claimant at ET) - resisting a claim that the ET had substituted it's view of the employer in an unfair dismissal.
education
- LLB (Hons), University of Dundee (1995), LLM, University of Leeds (2004),
- Bar Vocational Course, University of Northumbria (2005).
memberships
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Industrial Law Society
other information
- Regularly provides CPD training on a variety of topics including the Equality Act 2010 and continuity of employment.
