James Anderson

Employment team, Reading

James has over 20 years’ experience specialising in employment law and deals with a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious matters for both employers, employees, contractors and partners.

He conducts complex and high value discrimination cases in the Employment Tribunal. As well as conducts appeals to the EAT and the Court of Appeal and injunction proceedings in the High Court and overseas.

Business he regularly advises include various FTSE and NASDAQ on the full range of employment law issues including the employment and dismissing of senior managers. Other areas he regularly advises on include :-

• Unfair dismissal claims generally arising from misconduct, capability, redundancy and constructive dismissal; • Discrimination and equal pay claims which are often complex and sometimes high value; • Fair dismissal procedures and the particular issues involved in dismissing senior executives; • High Court injunctions and the protection of confidential information; • Bonus entitlement and share disputes; • Compromise agreements, COT3s and settlements; • TUPE and other employment issues on the purchase/sale of a business.

Main secondary school attended: Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. Universities and colleges attended: St Peters College, University of Oxford. (degrees and qualifications with years attained): BA(Hons) Jurisprudence 1991, LSF 1994.