11KBW shows strength across a wide range of areas in employment law, including commercial employment practice including governance; directors’ duties; bonuses, share incentives and remuneration. Recent highlights for the team include Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd v Willis Re (UK) Ltd, a case concerning a cross-border claim for conspiracy, breach of contract and for injunctive relief and damages arising out of a team move in the insurance industry, alleged to be a poaching raid, spanning London and Bermuda. Simon Forshaw KC, Katherine Eddy and Zac Sammour appeared for Guy Carpenter, while Jamie Susskind and Jack Steele appeared for Willis. Andrew Edge , leading Joseph Lavery appeared on behalf of an individual defendant. Andrew Edge has been involved in Abdar and others v Morrisons, a case concerning equal pay litigation, which is progressing to the material factor defence stage in 2026. Zac Sammour appeared before the EAT in Miller v University of Bristol, representing an academic whose anti-Zionist beliefs were found at first instance to have been a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010.
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