An Indian barrister who sued her London chambers for £33 million claiming race discrimination has lost her case.
Aisha Bijlani took 4 New Square to an employment tribunal last year alleging that her career prospects were held back by racist attitudes and said that she earned less than her white colleagues.
Dr Bijlani, who regularly broke down in tears during the Central London Employment Tribunal hearing last year, claimed clerks at the chambers were racist, failed to get her work and did not collect her fees, costing her millions in lost income.
She estimated that white colleagues, who qualified at the same time as she did in 1994, earned an estimated £7 million more than her in more than a decade.
Dr Bijlani had attempted to sue three consecutive heads of chambers, John Powell QC, Justin Fenwick QC, and Roger Stewart QC plus senior clerk Lizzie Wiseman, who all denied wrongdoing.
The tribunal also heard Bijlani was appealing against a conviction for sending malicious and insulting emails and making abusive phone calls between June and August 2007.
Yesterday a spokesman for the tribunal service said that she had lost her case.
Quite obviously Bijlani is worth her weight in gold...fools's gold that is! £33M! She's having a laugh isn't she?
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