Misconduct | Law firm partner had sex on a desk and told female employees to wear 'short skirts'

A senior partner at a law firm in Bristol has been suspended and is facing a tribunal after telling a female employee she should be wearing “stockings and short skirts” and having sex with another female staff member on a workplace desk.

Jasvinder Singh Gill admitted inappropriate sexual conduct involving three female colleagues, which created a culture where a power imbalance existed.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal said Gill’s behaviour ‘placed the female employees who he had picked upon with the no doubt unsettling dilemma that rebuffing him would or could count against them in their continuing employment’.

Gill admitted taking a female colleague out for lunch and then told her to come to his office before kissing her. He also told this employee that he preferred female staff to wear open toe shoes, stockings, and short skirts as “proper office attire”.