Partner expulsion case offers lessons to LLP firms and their partners

The recent High Court ruling on a dispute regarding the expulsion of a partner from one of the Big Four under the firm’s 2017 LLP agreement (LLPA) raises warning signs for accountancy practices. Andreas White, employment partner at Kingsley Napley, examines the ruling 

The case Joseph v Deloitte NSE LLP concerned a challenge from David Joseph, a Swiss-based partner at Deloitte, to a decision by the firm to dismiss him. 

The legal issue in dispute – whether the firm is obliged to convene a special meeting of the full partnership (consisting of some 1,700 equity partners) to consider the claimant’s expulsion – is narrow, but the case is of broader interest to limited liability partnership (LLP) firms and partners with important lessons for both. 

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