Specialist in administrative and public, employment, education, election and information law. Aileen has a particular interest in discrimination/ equality as well as in human rights law, higher education-related work and investigations.
Barrister specialising in commercial, employment and public law. Recent cases include Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2014] AC 700; R (Reilly) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2014] AC 453 (SC); Geys v Société Générale [2013] 1 AC 523.
Andrew specialises in all aspects of public law (commercial, regulatory, education, community care, local government, and planning and environmental law) human rights, public inquiries, public procurement and information law. He practises in English and European courts acting for private individuals, public authorities, commercial organisations and NGOs. Notable cases include: R (Bridges) v South Wales Police (Article 8 ECHR, GDPR and automatic face recognition technology in the Court of Appeal), MacDonald v UK (Private life and community care in ECHR), Kennedy v Charity Commission (freedom of information and Article 10 ECHR in the Supreme Court), R (Plantagenet Alliance) v Secretary of State for Justice and Leicester City Council (challenge to the decision to bury Richard Ill’s remains in Leicester) and DWF v Insolvency Service (public procurement and applications to lift the automatic suspension in the Court of Appeal).
Barrister specialising in employment law, discrimination and commercial law. Regularly involved in High Court and appellate litigation. Andrew’s practice covers all areas of employment law with an emphasis on whistleblowing, discrimination, TUPE, unlawful competitive activity (including springboard injunctions), bonus disputes, garden leave and the use of confidential information.
Anya has a broad practice spanning information, media, human rights, public and employment law. She is recommended as a leading practitioner in the legal directories for her work in Data Protection, Defamation & Privacy, and Administrative and Public Law. The nature of Anya’s practice is such that she is equally at home conducting lengthy, witness-heavy hearings as she is arguing complex points of law before the appellate courts. Anya’s clients include individuals; corporations; media organisations; NGOs; statutory regulators and a wide array of public authorities. Anya is named in The Lawyer’s “Hot 100 Lawyers 2019” in recognition of her leading role the field of privacy litigation.
Specialises in employment law and discrimination. Cases include: R(IWGB) v CAC IP Deliveroo; Smith v Pimlico Plumbers (No 2) Addison Lee v Lange; R(IWGB) v CAC IP University of London; Brierley v Asda Stores; Paturel v DB Group Services; CD v ST; X v Mid-Sussex CAB; Geys v Societe Generale; Coulson v News International; Proactive Sports Management v Wayne Rooney and others; Wardle v Credit Agricole; Wiliams v British Airways; Audit Commission v Haq; Keegan v Newcastle FC; Bateman v Asda Stores; Ainsworth Stringer v HMRC; Chagger v Abbey National; Grundy v British Airways; Cumbria County Council v Dow; EB v BA; O'Hanlon v HMRC; Derbyshire v St Helens .Crofts v Cathay Pacific Airways; Powerhouse Retail v Burroughs ; Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare; BCCI v Ali; Mahmud and Malik v BCCI.
Barrister specialising in all aspects of public law, information rights and data protection law. Significant cases include: the Article 50 Brexit case (Miller); the Scottish independence referendum reference (Lord Advocate’s Reference); the challenge to the prorogation of Parliament (Miller/Cherry); recoverability of damages for breach of data protection law (Google v Lloyd); the challenge to the Rwanda deportation policy (AAA); the Covid Inquiry’s powers to order disclosure (Cabinet Office v Chair of UK Covid-19 Inquiry); and changes to Royal protective security (Duke of Sussex).
Specialist in employment law, public law (human rights, local government, social services, health, police) and education law. Recent cases have included: R (SG) v S of S for Work & Pensions (welfare cap: Supreme Court); R (Moseley) v L B Haringey (council tax reduction scheme: Supreme Court); Cornwall CC v S of S Health (community care ordinary residence: Supreme Court); Windle v S of S Justice (freelance interpreter: EAT).
Specialist in employment law, public law, commercial law and ADR; recent cases include: Akerman-Livingstone v Aster [2015] UKSC 15; R (PDU) v Boots [2014] EWHC 2930 (admin); Joy v Deutsche Bank [2015]; Smith v Carillion [2015] EWCA Civ 209; R (Islington) v Mayor of London [2013] 4142 (Admin); Hounslow LBC v Powell [2011] 2 WLR 287; Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] 3 WLR 1441; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v Beck [2010] EqLR 120; R (Bristol-Meyers Squibb) v NICE [2009] EWHC 2722 (Admin); Liverpool City Council v Doran [2009] 1 WLR 2365; R(A) v Croydon LBC [2009] LGR 24; Kay v United Kingdom (ECHR); R (Servier) v NICE [2009] EWHC 281; R (Gilboy) v Liverpool County Council [2008] LGR 521; R(Doherty) v Birmingham County Council [2008] 3 WLR 636; R (Eisai) v NICE [2008] EWCA Civ 444; Smith v Buckland [2008] 1 WLR 661; Harlow v Artemis [2008] IRLR 629; R (Bradley) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2008] 3 WLR 1059; HM Prison Service v Johnson [2007] IRLR 951; Charter plc v City Index Ltd [2008] Ch 313; Price v Leeds City Council [2006] 2 AC 465; Customs & Excise Commissioners v Barclays Bank Plc [2006] 3 WLR 1.
Barrister practising in all areas of public, commercial, employment and data protection litigation, with a particular focus on cases with an international element. A focus in the commercial and employment field on litigation involving breach of fiduciary and directors’ duties, economic torts, team moves, restrictive covenants, misuse of confidential information, civil fraud, bonus and contractual disputes, as well as assertions of state immunity. Daniel is regularly instructed in public law and human rights matters relating to national security and defence: he acted in the Bank Mellat sanctions litigation and his ongoing work includes an Article 2 challenge to the ban on the admissibility of intercept evidence. He also acts in high profile data protection claims, including for British Airways in the group litigation following the cyber-attack on its systems in 2018.
Barrister specialising in employment and public, including information law, inquests, Court of Protection, and community care.
Experienced senior junior barrister specialising in Employment, Public and Commercial law. Particular expertise in Equality, Education, Information, Regulatory and Disciplinary law. Recently secured award of £870,740 for NHS whistleblower Dr Kevin Beatt. Represents businesses, public sector organisations and individuals. Employment work routinely involves very high value disputes, including complex governance issues, remuneration and equal pay, all forms of discrimination, holiday pay, whistleblowing, also contractual, pensions and TUPE disputes in the context of redundancy or insolvency. Undertakes a wide range of Education matters, including judicial review, special educational needs and disability tribunals, discrimination in the provision of educational services, in schools, universities and other settings. In suitable cases, accepts Public Access instructions.
Heather is a highly sought-after junior with experience across the fields of administrative and public law, human rights, local government, regulatory law, professional discipline, information law and data protection. She is regularly instructed in ground-breaking and complex public law litigation and has particular expertise in judicial review claims and cases raising. Recent public law cases include three appeals heard by the Supreme Court and high profile judicial review claims relating to the closure of London police and challenges to the Government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Heather also has experience advising and acting in regulatory and disciplinary proceedings on behalf of regulated individuals and regulatory bodies and has acted in a number of the leading cases in this sphere, including complex disciplinary tribunal hearings and appeals to the High Court. Heather has particular experience in the legal and health sectors. Heather is also a recognised expert in the field of information and data protection law and advises and litigates on behalf of a range of private and public sector clients on FOIA, GDPR, and DPA issues. She has advised and acted in data breach litigation and been instructed in cases before the ECTHR relating to data retention issues.
Head of chambers, specialising in commercial litigation, employment, public sector.
James Cornwell is a barrister specialising in public, education, information and local government law. His public law practice sees him appear regularly in the Administrative Court in judicial reviews on a wide range of issues, principally for central government and a variety of public authorities, and in the Upper Tribunal on administrative appeals. He has also appeared in the Court of Appeal. His education practice has involved appearances in the Court of Appeal, High Court, county court and the FTT (SEND) (formerly SENDIST) on issues including disability discrimination, special educational needs, school exclusions and admissions, discrimination, negligence and breach of contract claims against private schools and higher education institutions. In his information law practice he appears regularly in the FTT (Information Rights) and Upper Tribunal on appeals under the Freedom of Information Act, often representing the Information Commissioner or public authorities, and also in data protection proceedings both in the Tribunal (enforcement and monetary penalty notice appeals) and county court. He is a member of the Attorney-General’s B Panel of Counsel.
Jamie practices in commercial, employment, public, and information/data law. He appears regularly in the High Court and the EAT. Jamie has particular expertise in conspiracy and economic tort claims, restraint of trade and ‘team move’ disputes, and claims involving breaches of directors’ duties, fiduciary duties, and duties of confidence. In the Tribunals, he is usually instructed in complex whistleblowing and discrimination claims. In information/data law, Jamie is presently instructed by the Information Commissioner in two high-profile disputes. He is the author of two books at the intersection of technology and law, and his research in this field has been cited by Lord Sales JSC in lectures including his BAILII lecture, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law.
Barrister specialising in commercial and employment law. Jane has particular experience in complex, multi-party litigation and commercial arbitration involving unlawful competition, often with an international dimension. Recent cases include: (a) ICAP Management Services Limited v (1) Berry (2) BGC [2017] EWHC 1321 (QB), when does a share acquisition give rise to a TUPE transfer? (b) Marathon Asset Management v Seddon [2017] I.R.L.R. 503, claim for Wrotham Park damages for theft of confidential information – does the wrongdoer pay for what he took or only what he used?(c) Hosking v Marathon Asset Management LLP [2017] Ch 157, landmark case on the meaning of ‘remuneration’ in the context of forfeiture of profit share upon breach of fiduciary duty.
Jane Oldham specialises in public (including the intersection between public and commercial), local government, information and education law. She has appeared at all appellate levels.
Specialist in public, public procurement, information law, EU law and Human Rights Act issues. Notable recent cases include: T v Home Secretary [2015] 1 AC 49 (disclosure of convictions and cautions on criminal records checks); R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC (Admin), [2015] EWHC 295 (Admin) (challenge to the government’s proposed reforms to criminal legal aid); Childrens Rights Alliance for England v Justice Secretary CA, 2012 (duty to inform victims of human rights abuses); Humphreys v HMRC SC, 2012 (splitting of state benefits paid for children); St Prix v SSWP SC, 2012 (EU ‘worker’ status of pregnant woman); Greenwich Community Law Centre v Greenwich LBC CA, 2012 (application of public sector equality duty to tender processes); JBW v Ministry of Justice(CA, 2012 (public service concessions and implied contract terms in tender processes); MPC v ZH CA, 2013 (Mental Capacity Act defence to assault and false imprisonment).
Employment, administrative & procurement and data protection. Varied practice, at the intersection of commercial and public law. Experience across the spectrum of employment disputes, with an emphasis on whistleblowing and discrimination (including equal pay: the high-value Tesco litigation). Advises and acts for both public bodies (from local authorities to regulators such as the FCA and NHSI) and challengers in regulatory and procurement matters. Expertise in data protection including defending complex multi-party data breach claims (the Transform Hospital litigation). Instructed as sole counsel (up to the Court of Appeal - Moss v ICO [2020] EWCA Civ 580) and as a junior in larger counsel teams.
Barrister specialising in administrative and public law; human rights and civil liberties; education and local government. Recent cases include: R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and Criminal Law Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin) (successfully challenging the LC’s reforms to criminal legal aid); R (West, Beer, Webb and Thomas) v Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council [2014] EWHC 2134 (Admin) (challenge to local authority’s decision to abolish free full time nursery education for three year olds); R (Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 1710 (court of Appeal decision on the scope of the common law right of access to justice); R (Bailey) v London Borough of Brent [2011] EWCA Civ; 1586; [2011] EWHC 2572 (Admin) (leading case on library closures and the public sector equality duty); R (Hurley and Moore) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2012] EWHC 201 (Admin) N (challenge to increase tuition fees); ALL Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition v Information Commissioner and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Judgment pending Information Tribunal appeal seeking information held about extraordinary rendition); Department of Healthy v Information Commissioner [2011] EWHC 1430 (Admin) (abortion statistics and personal data); BUAV v Information Commissioner and University of Newcastle [2011] UKUT 185 AAC (Information Upper Tribunal FOIA – seeking project licences authorising experiments on primates; R (Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 269 Application to vary/appeal against conditions imposed by trial judge on the grant of permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal; R (MN (Tanzania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA 193 Test case on the test to be applied by a judge on an application for judicial review of a refusal of the Secretary of State to treat further representations by an asylum seeker as a fresh claim under paragraph 353 of the lmmigration Rules; R (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWHC 3524 (Admin) Judicial review of the Secretary of State’s interim immigration cap; R (Petsafe) v Welsh Ministers [2010] EWHC 2908 (Admin) Challenge to the Animal Welfare (Electronic Collars) (Wales) Regulations 201 0 which prohibited in Wales the use on cats and dogs of any electronic collar designed to administer an electronic shock; R (Ghai) v Newcastle City Council and Secretary of State for Justice [2010] EWCA Civ 59 [2010] 3 All ER 380 Junior Counsel for the Secretary of State in a claim brought by religious groups challenging the ban on open air funeral pyres as being contrary to Articles 8, 9 and 14 of the ECHR.
John is a public law and human rights specialist with related expertise in public international law and information law. He is instructed across these fields, for central government, local authorities, other public bodies and claimants, and has particular experience in cases involving national security or international relations issues. He has extensive experience in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, both as sole counsel and as part of a larger team.
KC specialising in public law and human rights, with an emphasis on judicial review. Recognised as a leading silk in administrative and public law, civil liberties and human rights, education law and local government law. Co-author of Judicial Review: Principles and Practice (OUP, 2013).
Joseph is a leading junior barrister in the fields of Public, EU and Commercial law.In recent years he has regularly been instructed in a number of the most significant cases to come before the Courts. In the field of EU procurement litigation he is ranked as a Band 1 practitioner by all of the main legal directories and is widely regarded as the leading junior at the Bar.
Judy has a dynamic employment and commercial law practice. She is regularly instructed in claims involving breaches of directors’ duties, fiduciary duties, duties of confidence and restrictive covenants as well as in pension, bonus and other contractual disputes, often with an international element. In the employment tribunal, Judy has considerable experience of high value whistleblowing and discrimination litigation.
Barrister specialising in business disputes especially those involving shareholder unfair prejudice, partnership and joint venture breakdown, director misfeasance, commercial fraud, disputed entitlements under share and bonus schemes, employee competition and misuse of confidential information. Clients value the commercial judgment he brings to cases having been a City litigation partner before coming to the Bar. Also brings experience and insight to the sensitive handling of internal investigations, and the independent chairing of complex internal disciplinary processes.
Barrister acting in a wide range of public law, media and information law and commercial law fields. Recent cases include: Gubarev & Others v Buzzfeed [2018] EWHC 512 (QB) (letter of request relating to the Donald Trump Dossier); Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2015] EWCA Civ 1052, [2016] EWCA Civ 452 (sanctions/financial restrictions on an Iranian bank); Rahmatullah (No 2) v Ministry of Defence, Mohamed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 1, [2017] 2 WLR 287 (Crown Act of State); Al Waheed v Ministry of Defence, Mohammed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 2, [2017] 2 WLR 327 (detention in Iraq and Afghanistan); and The Grenfell Tower Inquiry (statutory inquiry).
Specialist in employment, commercial, data protection and public law. Katherine is often involved in complex litigation in each of these areas. Her current and recent cases include Forstater v CGD Europe & others [2021] IRLR 706 (EAT proceedings on the question of whether gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act); Jennifer Webster v HMRC (high-profile data protection proceedings brought by a former US citizen to challenge the transfer of financial account information to the US tax authorities under a bilateral treaty); in TW Logistics v Essex County Council [2021] UKSC 4 (concerning the registration of part of a commercial port as a Town and Village Green).
Marcus specialises in employment and discrimination, product liability and public law. Recent case highlights include: Batang Kali judicial review (pending, SC); Hainsworth v MoD (pending SC), Burrell v Micheldever (2014, CA), Met Police v Keohane (2014, EAT), Portnykh v Nomura (2013, EAT), Edwards v Chesterfield (2012, SC); English v Thomas Sanderson Blinds (2009, CA). As well as unitary claims, Marcus’ product liability work has included the PIP Breast Implant Group Litigation, DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal Hip Group Litigation, Mix-Match Hip Litigation and the Sabril Group Litigation. Marcus has also drafted private members’ bills including that which resulted in the enactment of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004. For a full profile please see the 11kbw website.
Barrister specialising in employment and commercial law, with extensive advocacy experience in a range of courts and tribunals. Frequently instructed in cases involving injunctive relief, confidential information, restraint of trade, and the economic torts. Recently appeared (led by Richard Leiper QC) in a three-week High Court trial concerning an alleged team-move conspiracy (Alesco v Bishopsgate & Ors [2019] EWHC 2839 (QB)) and as sole counsel in a breach of confidence trial in the travel industry (Trailfinders v Travel Counselors [2020] IRLR 448). Acts in a wide variety of complex, high value Employment Tribunal cases, both as sole and junior counsel. Instructed (led by Daniel Stilitz QC) by Chelsea FC and José Mourinho to defend discrimination claims brought against them by a former- doctor. Recent work as sole counsel includes acting for the successful respondent in a mental-health disability discrimination claim in the financial services sector, in a decision recently upheld by the EAT (Sullivan v Bury Street Capital UKEAT/0317/19/BA). Currently representing the respondent to a worker-status claim involving a large number of claimants, and acted for Dr Carpos-Young in her successful high-profile victimisation claim against the Royal Academy of Music.
Specialist in public/administrative law and public procurement law. Public law includes commercial and general judicial review, human rights, professional regulation, local authority powers/governance/finance, education and community care. Procurement law covers all contentious and non-contentious EU and domestic procurement issues. Also commercial and employment law, especially public authorities’ contracts and public sector employment issues, including superannuation. Recent cases include Lumsdon v Legal Services Board (quality assurance of criminal advocacy, Provision of Services Regulations); Energy Solutions v NDA (remedies in procurement claims); Willmott Dixon v Hammersmith & Fulham LBC (procurement claim successfully defended at trial); Independent Schools Council v Charity Commission (quashing statutory guidance on public benefit); Luton BC and others v Secretary of State for Education (challenge to withdrawal of schools capital funding); Duncombe v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (fixed term contracts to work abroad); Piper and others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (public sector pensions indexation).
Experienced specialist in all areas of individual and collective employment law litigation in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and appellate courts, encompassing all statutory employment rights (for example unfair dismissal, redundancy, all areas of discrimination, whistle-blowing, collective consultation and transfers of undertaking) and contractual employment disputes (including wrongful dismissal, deductions from wages and contractual construction), as well as substantial experience acting for both employers and employees in claims of unlawful competition by employees (including ‘garden leave’ injunctions, springboard injunctions, enforcement of post-termination restraints, misuse of confidential information, breach of fiduciary duty and related economic torts, and in claims for damages and accounts of profit arising from unlawful competition). Advisory work includes all of the above areas in both the public and private sectors, for both employers and employees. Relevant reported cases include: Adams and others v British Airways CA; Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and others CA; Davy International v Tazzyman and others CA; Admiral Management Services Ltd v Para-Protect Europe Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 2722; Middlesbrough BC v TGWU and others[2002] IRLR 332; Health Development Agency v Parish [2004] IRLR 500; Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and Others (Court of Appeal); Middlesbrough BC v TGWU and Others [2002] IRLR 332 EAT; Admiral Management Services Ltd v Para-Protect Europe Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 2722; Stevenson v Atos Origin IT Services Ltd UKEAT/0213/11/CEA; Abercrombie v Aga Rangemaster Ltd UKEAT/0099/12/SM.
Barrister specialising in public, employment, human rights, competition, European Union, commercial, procurement, information and data protection law.
Barrister practising in public, employment and commercial law. Public includes administrative law, judicial review, local government, human rights and public inquiries, with specialist areas including asylum and immigration, education, mental capacity, planning and prisons. Employment covers all types of employment cases for employees and employers in tribunals (in England, Wales and Scotland), the EAT, county court and High Court. Commercial work comprises general commercial disputes, particularly those which overlap with other areas of practice and cases involving forum and service out issue. Accredited under the Public Access Scheme.
Peter Oldham QC is a well-known practitioner in the fields of public, local government, education, procurement, and employment law. He has a particular speciality in education law in which, for many years, he has regularly appeared in leading cases. Recent cases of interest include Rota Rooson v Salford CC [2015] EWCA Civ 6, the first Court of Appeal decision to consider consultation in the light of Moseley; Davies v Haringey LBC [2015] ELR 18, where the High Court considered local authorities' powers of discipline over school staff; Rota BAPIO v RCGP [2014] EqLR 409, an equalities challenge to GPs' qualification exams; and Rota Nestwood Ltd v Lines CC [2014} BLGR 354, a challenge to an authority's refusal to follow an Ombudsman's recommendation. In July this year the Court of Appeal will hear Winstanley v Leeds University in which Peter, acting for the claimant, argues that the so called 'academic immunity' doctrine should be ended.
Barrister accepting instructions in employment law, information law and across a broad range of public and local authority issues. Special interest in environmental law.
Licensing, Local Government, Public Law. Philip Kolvin KC has specialised in licensing law for over 20 years. He is a creative and dedicated lawyer, often to be found in the leading cases and issues of the day. His clients include national operators, independents and local and national regulators.
Raphael is a barrister specialising in public, human rights, information, employment and commercial law.
Remi is a public law and public international law specialist, acting for and advising national governments, government departments, public bodies and corporate entities. He represents clients in the First-tier and Upper Tribunal, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. Remi has more than 15 years of experience as a public international law practitioner and regularly represents States before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and international arbitral tribunals. He also has significant experience in information law and data protection, police law, inquests and sports arbitration. Remi accepts instructions on a Direct Access basis.
Richard is a litigator and advocate, both in the High Court and Employment Tribunals, as well as in appeals.He has a wide-ranging practice, acting for individuals and for businesses. Recent cases encompass the duties of senior employees, directors, and shareholders; confidential information and restraint of trade; complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims; penalty clauses; and professional negligence by solicitors.He is regularly involved in all stages of a claim, from initial advice and pleading, interim applications, mediations to speedy trials and appeals.In the Who’s Who Legal UK Bar Report 2019, Richard was identified as one of the 7 most highly regarded silks in employment law, adding that he “gains extensive praise as ‘a real star of the Bar’, and an ‘absolutely outstanding, confident, commercial and diligent advocate’.”
Specialist in data protection, privacy, FOI and environmental information. Huge experience, often for major global companies, in data breaches, compensation actions, ICO penalties and enforcement, subject access, GDPR-compliant business models, etc. Has appeared in leading data protection and privacy cases, eg Facebook v ICO (monetary penalty); DB v GMC (mixed personal data); Ittihadieh (subject access); Edem (definition of personal data). Has also appeared in hundreds of FOI and EIR appeals, eg IPSA (MPs’ expenses); APPGER (security services, international relations) and Henney (definition of environmental information). Edits the Panopticon blog.
Ronnie specialises in employment, public and commercial law. His employment practice encompasses claims for unlawful competition and misuse of confidential information, the full range of claims in the Employment Tribunal and industrial relations disputes. He is regularly instructed to act for claimants and respondents at lengthy hearings involving claims for discrimination, victimisation and whistleblowing. Ronnie’s public law practice focuses on claims for judicial review with a commercial angle. Recent cases include R (UTAG) v TfL, where the Court of Appeal ruled that drivers on private hire apps (such as FreeNow and Uber) are not “plying for hire”, and therefore do not require hackney carriage licences. Ronnie also specialises in State aid/ subsidy control, having acted for Coventry City Council in some of the first domestic cases to consider the private investor principle (R (Sky Blue Sports and Leisure Ltd) v Coventry CC).
Commercial, education, employment, European Union, health and community care, human rights, information, procurement, professional discipline and regulatory law, public law.
Specialist in commercial; public and human rights; public and private international law; employment and sports law. Appears before domestic courts and tribunals up to and including the Supreme Court; in international courts and tribunals including the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice; and in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules and specialist sports arbitrations.
Sean specialises in high-value employment and sports litigation. He is a trusted adviser for both claimants and respondents. His employment law expertise covers both public and private sectors and ranges from whistle-blowing and discrimination through to pensions. Recent private sector clients have included: Amazon, ICAP, Indesit, Legal and General, Lloyds Bank, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Nissan, RAC, Sainsburys, Tesco and Rolls Royce. He has advised and represented trade unions, local authorities, police authorities and health trusts. Recent sports law clients inclde Aston Villa, Everton and Newcastle United.
Simon’s practice continues to focus on contractual/commercial employment law, with a particular emphasis on inter-business competition issues (including confidential information, restrictive covenants and the poaching of employees in unlawful team moves), employee fraud and the attempted diversion of business opportunities by employee fiduciaries. He also specialises in whistle-blowing and TUPE disputes. In the High Court, Simon is acting for the victim of a £50m fraud in the purchase of a business and on a number of team move cases. He recently acted for the successful defendants in CEF v Mundey & Ors (securing the discharge of injunctions improperly obtained on short notice); for Tullett Prebon in resisting claims by BGC that it unlawfully recruited one of BGC’s serving employees; for three venture capital funds, resisting claims by multiple defendants to set aside freezing injunctions obtained on the basis of their alleged fraud/conspiracy in running a ‘Ponzi scheme’ bridging loan business; and in a substantial claim involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and intellectual property rights by an employee who set up a friends-reunite-style website in Russia, in competition with his former employer. On the statutory front, Simon has successfully resisted a number of applications for interim relief by putative whistle-blowers, and he acted for the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust in its high-profile whistle-blowing dispute with its former chief executive. In addition to advising regularly on the TUPE implications of commercial transactions, Simon has acted for a number of NHS bodies following the outsourcing of care to persons with learning disabilities and successfully defended a firm of solicitors against a claim that it had inherited TUPE liabilities for the employees of one of its competitors (which it had defeated in a competitive tender for legal services). Simon’s practice also encompasses music and sport’s cases. By way of example, he recently acted for Hull City in respect of claims made by Jimmy Bullard after his sacking at the beginning of the 2011/2012 season. Recent reported and/or important cases include CEF v Mundey [2012] EWHC 1524 (QB), BGC v Rees & Tullett Prebon [2011] EWHC 2009 (QB) (Tullett did not procure Rees to breach his contract of employment with BGC when recruiting him); Capital for Enetrprise Fund LP & Ors v Malik & Ors [2010] EWHC 343 (Ch) (alleged material non-disclosures asserted by multiple defendants did not justify setting aside freezing injunction); Allsop v Christiani & Nielsen Ltd (in Administration) [2012] EAT/0241/11/JOJ (limitation and jurisdiction in Wages Act claims); Watkinson v RCHT [2011] EAT/0378/10/DM (whistle-blowing in the NHS); Ward Hadaway v Love & Ors [2010] UKEAT/0471 /09/SM (the winning of a contract to provide legal services to the NMC did not constitute a service provision change within the meaning of TUPE 2006 and the successful tenderer did not assume liability for the dedicated team of lawyers retained by his predecessor); New ISG v Vernon & Ors [2008] ICR 319 (a purposive construction should be given to regulation 4(7) of TUPE 2006, so as to accord with the fundamental freedom of the employee to choose who he works for, and to permit and recognise the effectiveness of a post-transfer objection where the employee does not know of the identity of the transferee or of his right to object, pre-transfer. In consequence, the transferee could not enforce post termination restrictive covenants against ‘objecting’ employees); Croke v Hydro [2007] ICR 1303 (an individual providing services through his own limited company to an end user via an employment agency was a worker for the purposes of the whistle-blowing provisions); and Bezant v Rausing & Ors [2007] EWHC 1118 (QB) (it was an abuse of process for a claimant (after his claims under employment law had failed) to seek to invoke the law of tort against directors and other professionals associated with his employment dismissal, to seek to recover his alleged losses. Such conduct justified the making of an Extended CRO).
Specialist in employment, public and commercial law. He has appeared regularly in the employment tribunals, EAT, County Court, High Court (including Administrative Court) and Court of Appeal. Noteworthy cases include: Willoughby v CF Capital Ltd [2011] IRLR 198 (EAT) (concerning the special circumstances exception in relation to unambiguous words of dismissal of an employee); Aon Ltd v JLT Reinsurance Brokers Ltd [2010] IRLR 600 (HC, QBD) (concerning the appropriateness of interim disclosure orders in the context of a team poaching exercise); Booth v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council [2009] EWCA Civ 880 (CA) (concerning the interaction between the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the definition of permanent incapacity in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997); R (Gurung) v Secretary of State for Defence [2008] EWHC 1496 (judicial review action concerning the pension rights of serving and retired Gurkha soldiers); Woodward v Abbey National [2006] 4 All ER 1209 (an appeal in the against the determinations of both the employment tribunal and EAT concerning the rights of whistleblowers after the termination of their contracts of employment; Court of Appeal).
Sophie Belgrove is a specialist in employment law and commercial litigation. She advises and represents clients in the Employment Tribunal, the High Court and the appellate courts. Her practice encompasses all aspects of employment law including high value discrimination and whistleblowing claims. She is experienced in complex litigation in particular urgent applications for injunctive relief and business protection disputes in the High Court relating to confidential information, restraint of trade and breach of fiduciary duties. She advises and acts in disputes involving shareholders and directors and in partnership disputes. Sophie is also known for her specialist expertise in employment-related insurance disputes. She has extensive experience of advising and representing clients in the financial services sector, including investment banks and brokers.
Stephen is highly regarded in administrative and public law, public procurement, financial services, and information and data protection law. Stephen has considerable experience in complex and high-profile judicial reviews, particularly in commercial and financial services disputes. He appears frequently in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court. Recently, he has been instructed by the Prime Minister, various central government departments, local authorities, the Financial Ombudsman, HMRC, the FSCS, and the Bank of England, as well as private clients. Stephen is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel. In his procurement practice, Stephen is instructed by both authorities and bidders. Recent cases include James Waste v Essex County Council (concerning modifications to procured contracts), R (Good Law Project) v Prime Minister (a challenge to the award of Operation Moonshot contracts during the pandemic), Alstom v Network Rail (a challenge to the £1.8bn contract for signalling on the East Coast Main Line) and Altiatech v Birmingham City Council (concerning limitation and declarations of ineffectiveness). Stephen is also a recognised expert in the field of information and data protection law, acting for a range of private and public sector clients on FOIA, GDPR, and DPA issues. Stephen has been instructed on several leading cases concerning mass data breaches, including Prismall v Google and Ticketmaster.
Barrister at 11KBW specialising in employment, commercial, and professional regulation.
Specialist in information law, employment (including discrimination), and public law (including local government, data protection, freedom of information). Cases include: R (on the application of Evans) v Attorney General (Supreme Court 2014); T v Secretary of State (Supreme Court, [2014] UKSC 35); Stack v Ajar-Tec Ltd (Court of Appeal, [2015] EWHC Civ 46; APGER v Information Commissioner and FCO (Upper Tribunal, [2013] UKUT 560 (AAC); NUM v Scargill (High Court, [2012] EWHC 3750 (Ch); H and L v A City Council (Court of Appeal, [2011] EWCA Civ 403).
Barrister practising predominantly in the fields of administrative and public law, human rights, education, employment, professional discipline and regulation, and data protection. He acts for individuals, companies, government, and associations across the private and public sectors alike.
Barrister. Zac practices in commercial, data protection, employment, media, public, public international, procurement and sports law.
Barrister that practises across the related fields of administrative and public law, regulatory, procurement, human rights, education, health and community care as well as information and data protection.