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Littleton Chambers
3 KING'S BENCH WALK NORTH, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7HR
England
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Gavin Mansfield KC
Position
Head of Littleton Chambers. Practice covers employment and discrimination law, partnership disputes and commercial litigation. Areas of practice include team moves, contractual disputes (wrongful dismissal, bonus claims, restrictive covenants and garden leave), breach of confidence and fiduciary duties, all aspects of statutory employment law, shareholder and joint venture disputes.
Career
Called 1992; Middle Temple; QC 2013; regular lecturer and writer on employment law topics. Publications of note: editor of ‘Blackstone’s Employment Law Practice’; contributor to Brearley & Bloch ‘Employment Covenants and Confidential Information’ (3rd edition 2009); ‘Essential Facts: Disability Discrimination for Providers of Goods, Facilities and Service’ (2003).
Memberships
Employment Law Bar Association (past Chairman);Employment Lawyers Association, Industrial Law Society;Association of Partnership Practitioners ; COMBAR, Bencher, Middle Temple.
Education
Nottingham High School; Jesus College, Cambridge.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Gavin Mansfield KC – Littleton Chambers ‘Gavin is a leader in every sense of the word. He is a phenomenal advocate and has a robust but engaging court room style.’
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Gavin Mansfield KC – Littleton Chambers ‘Gavin has genuine expertise in the area of partnership and LLP law, is an excellent strategist, fabulous with lay clients, user-friendly, responsive and fantastic to work with. He is also a calm, measured and persuasive advocate who can read the mood of the court and be flexible in his submissions. There are few silks who are as hardworking, easy to work with and exceptionally bright.’
Littleton Chambers‘ partnership group receives a regular flow of instructions involving professional services firms for sensitive disputes carrying reputational and business risk. Members of chambers, including head of chambers Gavin Mansfield KC, handle a number of matters at the intersection of partnership and employment law, with clients including patent agents, surveyors and hedge funds. Mansfield KC was recently involved in Armstrong and others v Taylor and others, a High Court claim between members of an investment management business, including an allegation that one group of partners conspired to remove the claimant’s group’s influence. Jonathan Cohen KC is another notable name in this space, while Mohinderpal Sethi KC handles disputes arising in the professional and financial services sector; James Bickford Smith is noted for his expertise in partnership arbitrations.