Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Vicky Milner

Vicky Milner

Hall of fameViberts

Vicky joined Viberts in 2020. She is widely recognised as the “go to” person for Jersey employment law. She specialises in high profile and complex matters, including Royal Court appeals of Tribunal decisions and cases involving directors of international trust businesses and other key employees. Vicky advises senior executives, private businesses and public sector entities on all aspects of employment law. She is regularly sought after to speak on and quoted in relation to employment issues affecting the Island, including in the 2019 Gender Pay Gap Scrutiny Review Panel. She has acted as an expert witness on Jersey law in the High Court of Justice of England & Wales. Vicky has specialised in employment law since 2001 and her experience includes successful litigation in ground-breaking areas, such as challenging the powers of the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal and testing the geographical scope of Jersey law in relation to offshore employment. She represented The Law Society of Jersey in a case raising discrimination and human rights issues in connection with admission to the Jersey Bar. She also appears in Jersey’s Mental Health Review Tribunal and has advised on issues concerning mental health and mental capacity of senior personnel. Previously Vicky has been Chair of Digital Jersey’s Regulation & Legislation Technical Action Group, Jersey’s Representative for the Employment Lawyers Association (“ELA”) and a long-standing member of the Institute of Directors’ Industries Sub-Committee.

Rising stars

Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Tarina Le Boutillier

Tarina Le Boutillier

Carey Olsen

Tarina specialises in employment law, dealing with global, multinational and local clients and advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. As well as employment law, Tarina has a keen interest in and frequently advises on data protection legislation and privacy related matters.

Laurie  Child

Laurie Child

Mourant

I am an employment law specialist and advise on the full range of employment disputes, restructuring processes, and statutory and contractual claims. I have particular experience of matters involving discrimination and collective employment issues. My work also includes commercial and employment data protection expertise, and advice on business licensing and immigration and mobility matters.

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Niall MacDonald

Niall MacDonald

Appleby

Niall MacDonald is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department in Appleby’s Jersey office. He advises on all types of commercial dispute and has extensive advocacy experience ranging from representing clients regarding trusts and multi-jurisdictional issues (before the Royal Court of Jersey and Court of Appeal) to resolving local employment disputes (before the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal). His practice now focuses on the following specialisms: commercial & contractual disputes; employment & regulatory matters; trust litigation; together with fraud, asset tracing & insolvency cases.  The breadth of his experience equips him particularly well when such issues overlap, for example with misconduct investigations concerning regulatory matters. His clients range from high net worth individuals and executives, to leading global and local corporate entities. The cases which he has resolved over the last 15 years have involved a broad range of other areas of the law (including company, contract, criminal, data protection, insolvency, insurance, planning, professional negligence and regulatory).

Daniel Read

Walkers

Daniel is a senior counsel in Walkers' Jersey Employment Law Group who advises organisations and individuals within the financial services sector on exits, disciplinary issues and investigations, and on regulatory matters.Dan is a Jersey Advocate with experience in Royal Court and Tribunal cases, as well as providing strategic advice on internal investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and M&A as well as restructuring and redundancy exercises.He advises businesses and senior executives and founders on regulatory matters, partnership and shareholder disputes, and restrictive covenants.Dan also advises on regulatory issues – including carrying out investigations into regulatory matters, and supporting regulated businesses facing investigations or enforcement action – and works with Insolvency & Dispute Resolution colleagues on fraud and financial crime disputes, in particular injunctions, disclosure orders and tracing of assets.

Carla Benest

Carla Benest

Mourant

Partner and Head of our Jersey Employment practice

Leading individuals

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Huw Thomas

Huw Thomas

Carey Olsen

Huw is a partner in Carey Olsen's Jersey office specialising in employment law, data protection and regulatory issues. Huw is one of Jersey's leading employment lawyers and has been advising on employment issues, data protection and information management for more than 20 years. He advises in both Jersey and Guernsey as part of the Carey Olsen Channel Islands Employment Team. He primarily advises employers across a broad cross section of the private and public sectors, with a particular focus on the financial services industry. He has been ranked in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 guides for employment law for a number of years and the employment team is consistently ranked in the top tier for employment. Huw is a regular speaker at breakfast briefings, conferences and seminars.