Stone King LLP

Business and Social Enterprise Sectors

Peter has been assisting clients in employment matters since he qualified in 1991. He advises on a full range of employment matters and aims to provide support to clients managing change in their business.

eter considers that businesses prefer to act responsibly both as a matter of policy and economics. He works with clients to ensure their outcomes in terms of responsible business are delivered.

Work highlights include:

Business: advising a large drinks company on collective redundancies of around 700 staff. Including advising on disputes with the unions, levels of and entitlements to redundancy pay upon re-employment, related TUPE issues of various sites.

Charity: Advising a Charter charity on the loss of staff: advising on worker and employment status, running collective processes for both, providing detailed advise regarding calculations of pay for redundancy purposes:

Charity: advising a charity regarding allegations against the MD arising out of a whistleblowing process. Allegations including sexual harassment and potential criminal offences. Working with Stone King’s charity team to ensure all charity governance matters correctly handled including delegation of authorities and Serious Incident Reporting

Transport: running a series of webinars in relation to practical matters of import to the transport sector including furlough, exiting from lockdown. Also running a webinar regarding vehicular Bridge Strikes with a view to raising awareness cross industry for this very important issue.

He was a partner at a large Bristol firm before becoming a partner at Stone King LLP in March 2006. He is qualified as a solicitor and barrister and for 10 years was believed to be the only solicitor on the panel of Treasury Counsel.

He currently practices as a solicitor with higher rights of audience in both criminal and civil matters.

Peter is an experienced Employment Tribunal advocate and his work has been case reported as advocate in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. He has acted in hundreds of tribunal cases including unfair dismissal and complex discrimination cases. He has trained and written courses for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Peter is also widely recognised as a leader in the transport sector. He has acted for bus and coach operators and hauliers in many matters of significance to the industry. He is Chairman of Logistics UK and South West Regional Freight Council. Peter is a member of the Confederation of Passenger Transport.

Peter enjoys many sports including cycling, running, swimming and skiing. He also enjoys the challenge of cryptic crosswords as well as medieval history.