Lowri Phillips > Geldards LLP > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Geldards LLP Offices

Capital Quarter No.4
Tyndall Street
Cardiff
CF10 4BQ
United Kingdom
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Lowri Phillips

Work Department
Employment
Position
Lowri is a Partner in the Employment Department with over 20 years’ knowledge and hands-on experience of all aspects of employment law. She is a trusted adviser to some of the firm’s large commercial clients. Lowri’s role is to steer organisations through the complex world of employment law whilst providing practical solutions to difficult HR issues. Lowri also advises the public and third sector on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She is the Head of the Information Law team and advises in connection with GDPR compliance and all aspects of data protection law and freedom of information.
Lowri enjoys dealing with tricky HR issues such as disciplinary and grievance matters, interpreting terms of employment and managing redundancy exercises. One of Lowri’s main areas of expertise is handling complex and high-value litigation, such as whistleblowing, discrimination and equal pay claims. An example of this is her leadership of a team advising an international bank on a multi-million-pound claim for whistleblowing. More recently she has been responsible for managing the defence of multiple equal pay claims for Local Authorities across Wales and in England. Lowri is also a renowned expert in information law and has trained clients and fellow practitioners on compliance with the GDPR. Lowri advises on all aspects data protection compliance, which includes dealing with employee data breaches and complex subject access requests from employees.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Employment > Employment
Spread across Cardiff, Derby, London, and Nottingham, Geldards LLP fields a considerable workload spanning corporate transactions, employment tribunals, as well as disciplinaries, grievances, and investigations. With over two decades of experience, Lowri Phillips leads the team and is well-informed in employee data breaches, equal pay, senior management restructurings, and whistleblowing cases. Rachel Mills often handles contractual issues, termination procedures, and TUPE, while Joga Singh’s immigration practice encompasses obtaining sponsorship licenses, right-to-work checks, and visa compliance.
Wales > Employment > Employment
(Leading partners)The ‘approachable and responsive’ team at Geldards LLP provides ‘pragmatic and transparent’ advice to Welsh public and private sector employers across a range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Welsh speaking team head Lowri Phillips has an eclectic practice that encompasses equal pay work for local authorities, as well as a considerable volume of advice to private sector employers (including an increasing number in the financial services space) across a range of advisory and ongoing operational work, including as it relates to data protection. Like Phillips, Helen Snow is also able to provide advice through the medium of Welsh, a skill which is often utilised by her public sector-focused client base, which are appreciative of her ‘accurate and helpful’ advice, including on niche employment law for Wales-based agricultural workers. Joga Singh ‘provides very astute and pragmatic advice’ to respondents, particularly in the context of multi-faceted employment tribunal matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Banking and finance