Miss A Shaheen v LPS Solicitors Ltd — 2025

The Claimant, Miss A Shaheen, had been employed by LPS Solicitors Ltd from December 2013 until January 2024. She brought complaints of unfair dismissal (including constructive dismissal), detriment for making protected disclosures about the fire exit shutters being down, direct sex discrimination, and harassment related to sex. The complaints arose principally from the Respondent's handling of abusive emails sent to her work address by her former partner, alleged comments by managers about that relationship, and the events surrounding a meeting on 21 December 2023 at which she said she was dismissed.

The Tribunal, sitting at Leeds before Employment Judge Singh with Ms G Fleming and Mr W Roberts, found that the Claimant was not dismissed on 21 December 2023 and that the events relied upon did not amount to a fundamental breach of the implied term of trust and confidence sufficient to ground constructive dismissal. On the protected disclosure complaint, the Tribunal found that the alleged detriments were not done on the ground of any protected disclosure. On the discrimination and harassment complaints, the Tribunal found either that the conduct alleged did not occur or, where it did, that a hypothetical male comparator would have been treated the same way and the conduct was not related to sex.

All substantive complaints were therefore dismissed as not well-founded. The victimisation claim and an earlier automatic unfair dismissal claim had previously been withdrawn by the Claimant. References in the judgment to £8,000 relate to a sum the Claimant requested from the Respondent in December 2023, not to any award; no remedy was ordered.