Lawyer Gill Switalski seeks £19m after losing her job in sex bias ordeal

A top City lawyer who won a claim for sex discrimination after being driven from her job in an 18-month campaign of bullying is seeking £19 million in compensation. Gill Switalski, 51, was left a mental and physical wreck after being forced out of her £140,000-a-year job as head of the legal team at F&C Asset Management, a finance company that controls investments of £102 billion.