Employment Law

All cases dealt with in Employment Tribunals (and upwards to appeal) including proceedings for a Redundancy Payment, Unfair Dismissal, Wrongful Dismissal (and contract claims under the Extension of Jurisdiction Order 1994), claims for Sex and Race Discrimination and claims under the Disability Discrimination Act, part-time worker pension cases under the modified Equal Pay Act 1970 etc.

Wrongful dismissal cases in the High Court for amounts higher than Employment Tribunals can order.

Claims for injunctions (for example enforcement of restrictive covenants in employment contracts) in the County Courts or the High Court.

Work at all stages of proceedings is covered from advices in writing or in conference on merits or remedy, the drafting of grounds of application to tribunals, Respondents' responses, notices of appeal and skeleton arguments, appearance at case management conferences, preliminary hearings, final hearings, appeals (including preliminary hearings) final hearings, appeals (including preliminary hearings) at the EAT etc.

Advices on employment contracts and dismissal procedures; exceptionally acting as an investigation officer or disciplinary meeting chairman if necessary.

Courts and Tribunals nationwide are covered; presently Tribunals from Newcastle to Ashford Kent have been venues for cases.

The employment law barristers group consists of:

• David Monk
• Robert C D Rees
• Nalla Lawrence
• Ian H Jones
• Andrew Willetts
• Simon Reed
• Fayyaz Afzal
• Nathalie Bull
• Kajal Dasani
• Kirsty Gallacher
• Joe Neville

The employment law barristers deal regularly with work in the following tribunals:

• Aberdeen Employment Tribunal
• Ashford Employment Tribunal
• Bedford Employment Tribunal
• Birmingham Employment Tribunal
• Bristol Employment Tribunal
• Bury st Edmunds Employment Tribunal
• Cardiff Employment Tribunal
• Dundee Employment Tribunal
• Edinburgh Employment Tribunal
• Exeter Employment Tribunal
• Glasgow Employment Tribunal
• Leeds Employment Tribunal
• Leicester Employment Tribunal
• Liverpool Employment Tribunal
• London Central Employment Tribunal
• London South Employment Tribunal
• Manchester Employment Tribunal
• Newcastle Employment Tribunal
• Nottingham Employment Tribunal
• Reading Employment Tribunal
• Sheffield Employment Tribunal
• Shrewsbury Employment Tribunal
• Southampton Employment Tribunal
• Stratford Employment Tribunal
• Watford Employment Tribunal