Employment
Must have suited you both to be S/E at the time.
Real big of you to say different when it doesn't.
Pilgrims like this prevent flexible mutually beneficial engagements.
Question - if Richard Branson or BA had approached you to say all they really needed was a couple of blokes like you (but you had to start monday) then i bet we would discover that you had been self-employed after all?
Thankfully people of this ilk never really get on in my experience.
Sadly the law is all on their side and the tribunal will only ever agree with the "Poor downtrodden" even if Sherburn genuinely believed they had a non exclusive S/E relationship. Poor bastards will probably end up having to pay the "missing" tax as if your pay was "net". Charming.
Another extra cost to add to the hourly rate - thanks a lot !