Equal Justice Solicitors

 

The importance of getting quality representation

When you face problems at work, or have been dismissed, you need immediate access to expert legal advice. Unfortunately, many providers of employment advice are not specialists but will still charge you thousands of pounds for their services.

Employment tribunals (originally set up to be 'lawyer-free zones') have become increasingly legalistic. Perhaps for this reason, 95% of litigants-in-person lose their discrimination claims and the few that win achieve lower awards.

The problem most claimants face is obtaining affordable but quality advice.

Affordable fees

We are a human rights firm and believe that claimants should not be costed out of justice. We do not have a legal aid contract, but we have devised methods to keep costs low through:

  • Free 30 minute consultation

    • – the first 30 minutes of all initial meetings are free.

  • Capped fees

    • – eg: although the claim will cost £30,000 of our time, we agree to act for a capped fee of £12,000.

  • Insurance cover

    • – insurance policies often offer free legal expenses cover (up to £50,000) for advice and representation at Employment Tribunals.

  • Recovering your costs

    • – in about 50% of cases, we manage to settle the claim and to recover most or all of our client’s costs under the settlement agreement.

  • In-house advocacy expertise

    • - many law firms expect you to pay for both the solicitor and for the barrister. Our lawyers perform both roles. We believe that a competent solicitor should be able to represent their client at the employment tribunal and win.

Proven track record

We have a proven track-record in successfully suing major corporations and public bodies and have won 96% of our claims to date.

Our lawyers have acted in numerous high-profile discrimination cases, recovering significant awards for our clients, and building a reputation for fearless litigation.

Our principal lawyer has won a sex discrimination claim against the USA and, more recently, he inflicted the first racial discrimination defeat on HSBC , who instructed Nabarro Nathanson, a City law firm to defend the claim.

Why choose us?

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"Probably the only UK lawyers to have beaten the USA in court"

Mary Fogarty v USA
Newsnight, BBC2.

Our discrimination lawyers have successfully represented:

Valerie Shelford - who was flown 12,000 miles by MoD for 'sham' job interview;
Nevres Kemal - the Baby P Whistle-Blower;
Amjad Farooq (the first national security Employment Tribunal case (involving a Muslim police firearms officer));
Colin Cook (the teacher awarded £70,000 after he whistle-blew against the King Fahd Academy);
Ruby Schembri (the first race discrimination case lost by HSBC bank); and
Megan Thomas (the first person sacked for being “too young”).

Equal Justice has handled some of the largest ever discrimination claims.

We have achieved the second highest discrimination Employment Tribunal award
and six figure settlement compensation.

How to contact us

For more information about our services please telephone our offices on 020 7405 5292.

You can also email us at:
enquiries@equaljustice.co.uk

Alternatively, complete one of our online contact information forms and we will contact you.


We find solutions

We pride ourselves on achieving successful outcomes. Litigation is expensive and stressful, so we apply the maximum pressure on employers to leverage quick but substantial settlements.

We also apply an innovative approach to claims. For example, we achieved a change in the law in the Sun Newspaper racial harassment case .

Our ethos

We are committed to fighting injustice and to providing legal services that are accessible to all.

We are also committed to providing a service that is not set up to leave you feeling confused and excluded.

We will always endeavour to explain the law in a way that can be readily understood.

We cannot please all of the people all of the time, but 80% of our new work is referred to us by former clients.

We are proud of this statistic and continue to strive to provide a service that is personal, professional and affordable.