Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Employment

Chris specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law.  His practice involves advising both employers and employees, with a particular focus on advising employers.  Chris regularly advises employers in negotiating the departure of directors and senior executives, redundancy consultation exercises and business reorganisations, disciplinary and performance management, employee grievances, managing ill health and return to work, maternity and family friendly rights, data protection, restrictive covenants, TUPE, outsourcing and transactional work.  Chris also advises senior executives and other employees in contractual negotiations, disciplinary and performance management, grievances, preservation of the employment relationship and negotiating terms of departure from employment.  He has considerable experience of complex Employment Tribunal litigation and has been involved in employment disputes in the High Court.

Chris qualified in 2005, joined Payne Hicks Beach 2009 and was made a senior associate in June 2015 and to partner in 2021.

Chris is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Education: Emmanuel College, Cambridge: MA Hons. Law and Social & Political Sciences (1999); BBP Law School: PgDL (2002) and LPC (2003).