Sarah Stanzel, a member of the employment group, gave a talk on redundancy to the Italian Employment Lawyers Association [Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani] in Milan on 20 October 2009. Other speakers were Laura Curcio, Judge of the Milan Appeal Court, and Prof. Roccella of Turin University. On 26-28 November 2009 Sarah attended the 10th Congress of the Spanish Employment Lawyers Association [Asociacion Nacional de Abogados Laboralistas] in Madrid where she took part in a session on termination of employment jointly with lawyers from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Brasil. Also, Sarah will present a session entitled "Restrictive Covenants - A European Comparison" at the European Employment Lawyers Association's Annual Conference to be held on 23-24 April 2010 in Luxembourg. The session will be presented by a team of five lawyers, the other four being Andreas Tinhofer (Austria), Gabor Gondos (Hungary), Lars Holo (Norway) and Marco Villani (Italy).

Head of Employment Gary Morton is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association working party dealing with the blacklisting of trade union members.

A disability discrimination case in the Employment Tribunal, Punch v Maldon Carers Centre, where Melvyn Harris represented the successful Claimant in late 2008 was cited in “Focus On Disability”, a feature in the June 2009 issue of IDS Employment Law Brief.

On Monday 18th May 2009, several members of Chambers took part in this years' London Legal Walk, sponsored by the Law Society.