In a change to his normal daily procedure, the Managing Partner of Simmons & Simmons has received a letter from German lawyers threatening him with imprisonment after the firm failed to pay off a disgruntled ex-employee.
According to RollOnFriday's impeccable sources© , in the past 12 months Simmons & Simmons has been the defendant in a number of proceedings for unfair dismissal brought by former employees of its Frankfurt and Dusseldorf offices. Apparently the firm lost or settled every case, but in at least one instance it also failed to pay up.
As a result, earlier this year German firm Esch & Kramer commenced enforcement proceedings against Simmons & Simmons on behalf of its client. In a letter seen by RollOnFriday, it notified Managing Partner Jeremy Hoyland that, as the head of the firm, he faced imprisonment if Simmons didn't pay both the amount due under the terms of the court settlement and the costs of the enforcement proceedings.
An inside source said that the petition for enforcement was withdrawn, presumably because the firm coughed up sharpish, and that the chance of Hoyland actually being imprisoned was "non-existent". However, RollOnFriday understands that the firm also failed to comply with the terms another unfair dismissal settlement, this time relating to an ex-employee of its Frankfurt office.
Enforcement proceedings are now pending for the second case, so if you see a man being hooded and bundled into an unmarked van outside Citipoint, it's probably just Hoyland being renditioned to a cell in the Black Forest.
Simmons & Simmons declined to comment.
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According to RollOnFriday's impeccable sources© , in the past 12 months Simmons & Simmons has been the defendant in a number of proceedings for unfair dismissal brought by former employees of its Frankfurt and Dusseldorf offices. Apparently the firm lost or settled every case, but in at least one instance it also failed to pay up.
As a result, earlier this year German firm Esch & Kramer commenced enforcement proceedings against Simmons & Simmons on behalf of its client. In a letter seen by RollOnFriday, it notified Managing Partner Jeremy Hoyland that, as the head of the firm, he faced imprisonment if Simmons didn't pay both the amount due under the terms of the court settlement and the costs of the enforcement proceedings.
"Lisa, hold them off, I've almost got enough! Please God, I don't want to go to Dusseldorf." |
An inside source said that the petition for enforcement was withdrawn, presumably because the firm coughed up sharpish, and that the chance of Hoyland actually being imprisoned was "non-existent". However, RollOnFriday understands that the firm also failed to comply with the terms another unfair dismissal settlement, this time relating to an ex-employee of its Frankfurt office.
Enforcement proceedings are now pending for the second case, so if you see a man being hooded and bundled into an unmarked van outside Citipoint, it's probably just Hoyland being renditioned to a cell in the Black Forest.
Simmons & Simmons declined to comment.
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So, I call BS on this one.
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Jeebus RoF get it together
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In Germany you pay. If you do not pay a bailiff will impound your Rolex. If that fails you have to give an affidavit of means/oath of disclosure. If you do not give this, you go to prison until you give it.
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