**Sam Sunday** is The Cummins Accountability Project’s investigative series examining Sam Butler, Senior Associate at Horsfield Menzies, and the distance between published employment law commentary and the documented realities of Tribunal litigation.
From discrimination and disability rights to procedural fairness, recruitment, workplace expression and employer strategy, TCAP examines the legal principles Butler discusses and tests them against the available evidence.
Every Sunday deserves a sermon. This one comes with exhibits, footnotes and absolutely no fucking absolution.
Sam Butler announced Britain’s first-ever socioeconomic pay-gap report. Unfortunately, KPMG had published one three years earlier. Sam Sunday examines the missing history, the class ceiling, his social mobility credentials and the extraordinary British habit of measuring everything except who gets to ride the fucking executive lift.
Sam Butler warns zero-hours reforms could cost businesses millions. Sam Sunday examines the worker costs his earlier article acknowledged and who pays for flexibility.
Sam Butler presents Wicken v Akita Systems as a lesson about remote working. The judgment reveals a missing improvement plan, a disputed grievance investigator, 62 pages of Sunday allegations and a constructive unfair dismissal. Sam Sunday opens the real fucking file.
Sam Butler explains freedom of belief, but his account of Higgs v Farmor’s School contains an appellate error and questionable legal simplifications. Sam Sunday examines the judgment, the corporate reputation panic and a disciplinary guillotine that the Court of Appeal refused to legitimise.
Sam Butler wants employers to offer flexibility, wellbeing and transparent recruitment. Lovely. TCAP examines the vanished Cepac interview, the mental-health disclosure and a recruitment dispute that never received a merits determination. Welcome to the Great Fucking Trade-Off.
Sam Butler acknowledged claimants abandoning delayed Tribunal proceedings under financial and emotional strain. Then he identified a “Strategic Opportunity” for employers. Sam Sunday opens the Horsfield Menzies Tribunal Morgue, where justice is dying and somebody’s found a fucking business opportunity.
