Since 2003 Stefan Cross KC has taken many thousands of ’no-win-no-fee’ cases to employment tribunal against local authorities
Stefan Cross set up his law firm in Newcastle in 2002 after working for Thompson’s Law where he worked on equal pay cases identified by trade unions in local government following the Single Status Agreement. Cross continued this work in his private practice taking many thousands of ’no-win-no-fee’ cases to employment tribunal against local authorities. In 2005 Cross also represented equal pay cases in which the respondent was the GMB union rather than the litigants’ employer [Allen and others v GMB [2008] EWCA Civ 810; [2008] IRLR 690]. In 2006 Cross set up a private claims company Action for Equality in Scotland (A4ES) when similar cases began to emerge from the later Single Status Agreement in Scottish local authorities. In 2013 Stefan Cross’s practice in Newcastle went into voluntary liquidation as new equal pay cases in English local authorities diminished.