Harriet Davies-Taheri was given �30,000 in compensation

Harriet Davies-Taheri, 32, lost her job at the Sheffield firm Proddow Mackay four weeks after telling the partners she was pregnant.

She later took her case to an employment tribunal where she won her claim for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal.

On Monday, Mrs Davies-Taheri was awarded �30,000 compensation from an employment tribunal in Sheffield.

Mrs Harriet Davies-Taheri told BBC Breakfast: "I have had the legal battle ever since with Proddow Mackay and still no apology."

I've seen Proddow Mackay solicitors do this to other people but it was still a shock when they did it to me Sacked lawyer Harriet Davies-Taheri

Asked how stress had affected her, she said: "Very, very badly. I mean, stress affects everybody.

"When people get stressed, their blood pressure goes up, whether a pregnant woman or not.

"It has been proven on statistics that if you are stressed at work when pregnant, you are five times more likely to get pre-eclampsia.

"I definitely believe my baby would be alive today if this firm hadn't treated me in this way."

'Millions of babies'

Mrs Davies-Taheri told an earlier hearing how she developed pre-eclampsia and then HELLP syndrome which resulted in her having to have her baby induced at 23 weeks to save her own life.

Baby Benjamin was born alive but died on 13 July, 2002, as a result of his early birth.

The hearing heard how one partner at the firm, Donald Mackay, told her that he would go "absolutely ballistic" if she was to go off and have "millions and millions of babies".

Mrs Davies-Taheri had only just been made a manager in the personal injury department of the firm and one former colleague referred to her as the "golden girl" of the section.

She told the BBC how she was ordered off the premises within a month of telling her firm she was pregnant.

"I've seen Proddow Mackay solicitors do this to other people but it was still a shock when they did it to me," she said.