What I love about my job is helping my broad range of clients resolve the problem they bring to me.
I founded the successful Employment and Discrimination department (which is ranked highly in both Legal 500 and Chambers directories). The team acts for employers and senior executives.
I am ranked as a leading individual in National Directories. My clientele range from senior individuals in industry and the city, to members of professional partnerships, to corporates and household name charities. My work encompasses negotiation of contractual terms, whistleblower claims, restrictive covenants, employment related shareholder/boardroom disputes, breach of contract, and dismissals and the widest range of discrimination disputes.
I am always focused on a pragmatic and cost effective resolution of disputes.
Between July 2016 and 2019 I sat as an international judge (Chair of the Grievance Committee for the European Bank in Reconstruction and Development). The Committee adjudicates on employment disputes across 56 countries applying international administrative law.
- Advising the board of a large national charity on the management of the relationship between the board and the Senior Executives, and how to dispel the tensions arising from a confused allocation of responsibilities. I was able to draw on my many years acting as a trustee and my experience as chair of a national youth development charity as well as my experience and qualifications as an employment lawyer.
- Advising the global chief executive of an international investment bank on the terms of his departure.
- Advising on team moves in the City and amongst professional practices, focusing on the enforceability of restrictive covenants and associated deferred remuneration.
- Advising on a boardroom dispute and associated shareholder issues arising from the removal of directors, and the forfeiture of a substantial shareholding.
- Advising members of an LLP on an internal dispute amongst the members, and successfully resolving the issues such that they could continue to work together.
- Advising Further Education colleges across the country on restructures always achieving efficiency.
- Advising high profile principals in FE colleges in connection with their employment and its termination, and the adverse media associated with that.
- Enforcing, on behalf of a professional services firm restrictive covenants and confidentiality clauses by way of injunction in the High Court.
- Advising a wide range of charities on their day to day employment relations and HR issues around performance, sickness, disciplinarians etc.
- Advising public sector clients in respect of trade union recognition and negotiation and lawful strike action.
- I investigated allegations of bullying levelled against the Chief Executive of a National Charity. I was required to interview multiple witnesses prior to reaching a conclusion that the allegations were not warranted. However tensions continue to exist, and I was asked to negotiate a resolution under which the Chief Executive would stand down. I provided further ongoing advice to the organisation in the light of factional criticisms made on social media by a minority group of members.