About

I am a Managing Associate in the Employment team, based in Manchester.

I have extensive experience in employment law, having qualified in 2007, and I specialise in tribunal litigation and workplace investigations. I also advise corporate clients, particularly in the retail sector, and I have led large-scale projects including company-wide reorganisations, changes to terms and conditions and relocations. In addition, I have a data practitioner certificate and I have advised numerous HR teams on the protection of employee data and data subject access requests since the GDPR.

Experience

Employment litigation

  • Defending substantial volumes of tribunal work as well as bespoke advice on complex, high value claims
  • In-depth knowledge of discrimination and whistleblowing claims, having helped the senior management teams of large organisations to successfully defend sensitive claims lasting several weeks, sometimes proceeding to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court
  • Developing ways of using people, process and technology to deliver tribunal advice to clients in a smarter, more efficient and value-driven way

Investigations

  • Regularly conducting complex and sensitive investigations, including allegations of sexual harassment, physical assault, and race discrimination
  • Advising well-known, multi-national clients and drafting reports making findings of fact and recommendations

Employment

  • Advising clients on a wide-range of complex projects affecting large numbers of employees, including tricky relocation / restructuring exercises, collective grievances contentious senior exits, significant changes to terms and conditions, collective redundancy and TUPE
  • Advising clients extensively on the protection of employee data, including data audits, contracts and policies, data privacy impact assessments and data subject access requests

Services

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