Employment

Our employment practice group provides commercial and sensitive advice representing employers and employees in both the public and private sector.

Members have a breadth of experience including:

• All forms of discrimination including allegations of harassment and victimisation;
• Contractual disputes including bonus pay claims;
• Claims for and against Directors including breaches of fiduciary duty;
• 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.

Our barristers have particular experience of international and cross border work. Recent examples include:

We have a strong reputation in the field of equality and discrimination with members of Chambers having appeared in a number of seminal cases such as Eweida v United Kingdom (2013) 57 EHRR 8, and Bull v Hall [2013] UKSC 73. Currently, we have two members of Chambers who are panel counsel for the Commission of Equality and Human Rights.”

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