Exchange Chambers

Employment

Ashley is a personable, approachable client-focused Barrister with over 25 years of experience, specialising in the provision of expert legal advice to businesses of all sizes, Government Departments and individuals. A leading employment junior, Ashley’s practice also encompasses professional discipline, commercial and contract disputes, restrictive covenant cases and discrimination in goods and services.

He routinely appears in the appeal courts on behalf of central government departments, local authorities SME’s and FTSE 250 firms.

Endorsed by all the major legal directories he is always realistic on fees and can accept instructions on a direct access basis where appropriate.

Ashley is consistently recommended as a leading junior in his field by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. He is on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel, and sits as a recorder and fee paid judge of the employment tribunal.

Called 1996; Treasury Counsel; Panel Counsel to EHRC; Counsel to HMRC; fitness to Practice Panel of the HCPC; fitness to Practice Panel of the GDC; Court examiner appointed under CPR 35 by the Lord Chancellor; Junior Counsel to the Crown (Panel A); Recorder (2020); Employment Tribunal Judge (2020)

Industrial Law Society Employment Law Bar Association

LLB II (i)- University of Nottingham LLM Distinction –University of Sydney, Australia ICSL Bar Finals