Our employment team are experienced practitioners who regularly provide advice and representation to employers and employees in the public and private sector. The team has experience acting for domestic companies, multinational corporations, governmental bodies and individuals on all aspects of employment law. Our members appear regularly in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and civil courts, including appellate courts, in domestic and international employment disputes. Further, the team regularly advises and guides companies or individuals through grievance, disciplinary and redundancy processes and internal investigations.

Chambers has long enjoyed an excellent reputation in employment law, and many present and former members have argued high-profile reported decisions in this area. Our barristers recognise the need for prompt, practical and strategic advice, and the importance of working closely with solicitors and clients to achieve the best result.

Members of the team are also able to accept direct access instructions.

The employment team’s advisory and advocacy experience covers the breadth of employment law issues, including:

  • All forms of discrimination including allegations of harassment and victimisation
  • Contractual disputes including bonus pay claims
  • Injunctive relief arising from restrictive covenants, breach of confidential information, team moves and other employee competition claims
  • International employment law including advising on appeals to the Privy Council as well as jurisdictional disputes
  • Whistleblowing
  • Unfair dismissal
  • Redundancy
  • TUPE
  • Equal pay
  • National Minimum wage and other statutory pay (including holiday)
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution including mediation and drafting and advising on compromise agreements

Members are highly recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners 2026 UK Bar Guides for their expertise and market recognition in Employment:

Details of cases in which our members have acted, or are acting, are set out in each barrister’s profile. Notable cases include:

Acting for BPL, the government corporation providing electricity to all of the Bahama Islands (except Grand Bahama), in an appeal to the Privy Council concerning the scope of the principle of ‘unjust dismissal’ (contractual and/or common law), as distinct from statutory ‘unfair dismissal’, in the context of an Industrial Agreement between BPL and its workforce. Read the Judgment here.

Acting for the Claimant in this claim for injunctive relief and damages arising out of the breach of restrictive covenants. The Claimant was granted an interim injunction, and awarded costs against the Defendants. Read the Judgment here.

An appeal to the Privy Council for an employee who had lost his job after receiving a prison sentence and claimed that his employer had breached his right to equal treatment under section 4(d) of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago. Read the Judgment here.

An appeal to the Privy Council concerning the entitlements of police officers to sit examinations for promotion. Read the Judgment here.

An appeal to the Privy Council considering the right of an individual to equality of treatment from a public authority under the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago. Read the Judgment here.

Employment barristers

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Tom Poole KC

Call: 2001Silk: 2021

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William Evans

Call: 1977 (England & Wales) 2010 (BVI)

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Emily Moore

Call: 2016

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Alexandra Sidossis

Call: 2016

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Samuel McNeil

Call: 2018

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Katharine Bailey

Call: 2019

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Tabitha Hutchison

Call: 2022

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Anna Gatrell

Call: 2023

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Toby Eales

Senior Practice Manager

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  +44 (0)20 7415 7803
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Frazer Gale-Sinclair

Practice Manager

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  +44 (0)207 415 7939
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