Susannah is recognised as having a strategic, pragmatic and commercial approach by her clients who come from a range of sectors including financial services, professional services, Fin Tech, design, fashion and recruitment. Susannah advises on strategic issues as well as on terminations, redundancies, settlement agreements, all aspects of discrimination and whistleblowing legislation, restrictive covenants, executive remuneration issues and corporate strategy and structuring issues. Susannah also has experience of advising on confidentiality and privacy issues in relation to both Court and Tribunal proceedings. Susannah also represented the Jewish Labour Movement in relation to the referral of the Labour Party to the Equality and Human Rights Commission on issues of antisemitism. Susannah has also advised in relation to and conducted a number of investigations, particularly (but not exclusively) relating to issues arising from the #MeToo movement. Susannah acted for Pimlico Plumbers in the Supreme Court in the landmark case on worker status. She acts for employers and employees on contentious and non-contentious matters with experience of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and Employment Tribunal. She works at the forefront of the legal landscape advising clients on matters arising out of the "gig" economy and is a recognised commentator on matters relating to worker status. TV actor Allison Mack was sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating women into becoming sex slaves for the spiritual leader of the cult-like group NXIVM (NEHK’-see-um).Susannah is a Partner in the Firm's Employment Department. 6 Capitol insurrection, approving a special committee to probe the violent attack. Sharply split along party lines, the House launched a new investigation of the Jan. One year ago: Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby the comedian had served nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir died at age 96.įive years ago: President Donald Trump and South Korea’s new leader, Moon Jae-in, concluding two days of talks at the White House, showed joint resolve on North Korea despite their divergent philosophies for addressing the nuclear threat. An international conference in Geneva accepted a U.N.-brokered peace plan calling for creation of a transitional government in Syria, but at Russia’s insistence the compromise left the door open to Syria’s president being a part of it. Ten years ago: Islamist Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first freely elected president as he was sworn in during a pair of ceremonies. Boston’s arts commission voted unanimously to remove a statue depicting a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet. Tate Reeves signed a landmark bill retiring the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. In 2016, saying it was the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. In 2013, 19 elite firefighters known as members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed battling a wildfire northwest of Phoenix after a change in wind direction pushed the flames back toward their position. (Bergdahl was released on in exchange for five Taliban detainees he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, but was spared a prison sentence by a military judge.) Bergdahl went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan, and was later confirmed to have been captured by insurgents after walking away from his post. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her for life for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. Hardwick, ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults (however, the nation’s highest court effectively reversed this decision in 2003 in Lawrence v. In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held 17 days.
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