Exchange Chambers

Employment

Ceri has over 20 years’ experience practising in employment law and personal injury and is a highly sought after advocate, continuously recommended as a leading junior in both Chambers and Partners UK and the Legal 500. She has extensive experience of equality law including sex, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, sexual orientation and discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services. She also undertakes all other aspects of employment law including whistleblowing. She has been instructed to advise and act on behalf of numerous Local Authorities and Unions including the Police Federation and the MPS, and has advised the Football Association on the impact of equality law outside the workplace.

Ceri undertakes all aspects of personal injury work but has a particular specialism in occupational stress at work claims. She further specialises in, Highways Act claims, road traffic accidents, civil motor fraud, defective premises, occupiers’ liability and accidents at work.

Ceri further specialises in regulatory law and has recent experience of appearing before the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health Care Professional Council.

Called 1994; Equality and Human Rights Commission preferred panel of counsel (2011-2013)

Personal Injury Bar Association Employment Law Bar Association

BA (Hons) Keele University (Class II.i, 1993) Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School (Very Competent, 1994) Wansbrough Willey Hargrave Scholarship, Keele University (1994-1996)

Recent Seminars

“How to manage long-term sickness absence in the workplace”, (December 2016)

“Sexual Harassment in the workplace: raising voices and developing strategies”, (June 2016)

“Stress at work claims: how to avoid the pitfalls”, (May 2016)

“Estoppel Pitfalls for Employment and Personal Injury Lawyers”, (March 2015)

“Police negligence: Answering a call for help but at what cost?” (March 2014)

“Stress and Mental Health in the Workplace”, Unite Regional Equality Conference, (Nov 2013)

“Redundancy and Dismissal: Shaping New Law into Highly Developed Advice for Employers, “How do you identify suitable alternative employment and what happens when there are limited roles and the rights of different groups conflict, for example, disabled employees and those on maternity leave? How do you deal with employees who are off sick and refusing to engage in the redundancy process and/or claiming that the process itself is making them unwell?”  Whitepaper Conference (Nov 2013)

Webinars

“Maternity, paternity and shared (grand) parental leave”, Personnel today (October 2016) http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/maternity-paternity-and-shared-grandparental-leave-webinar/

“Managing long-term sickness absence”, Personnel Today (July 2016) http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/leave-absence-managing-attendance-fairly-demand-webinar/ (July 2016)