On Monday 9th May members of Trinity Chambers' Employment group, Simon Goldberg and Richard Stubbs, will be commencing the test case on whether the NHS has a “Genuine Material Factor” defence to the equal pay claims brought by women in the NHS. The case is listed for seven weeks at the Newcastle Employment Tribunal and will test the defence that separate collective bargaining processes as between the predominantly female and predominantly male groups provides a substantive defence to the unequal pay as between the female Claimant and the male comparator.
Trinity Christmas & New Year Opening Hours
Trinity’s premises will be closed from 12.30pm on 24 December, reopening at 9am on 2 January 2026. Staff are available for emails/calls between 9am - 4.30pm on 29 & 30 December, and 9am - 12.30pm on 31 December. For extremely urgent enquiries, the out of hours number is 0191 245 0170.
- Thursday, May 5, 2011