Dale Martin KC is one of the UK’s leading specialists in employment and commercial law. He is often instructed in appeals, in business-critical injunctive cases, in long-running multi-claimant litigation, and in cases concerning high net worth individuals. With a keen attention to detail and a compelling advocacy style, Dale has a formidable reputation. Dale’s team skills, his responsiveness and his reliability to work to deadlines are also highly valued amongst instructing solicitors. Dale is a natural trial and appellate advocate but uses his strategic insight, commercial judgement and tactical nous to position cases for favourable settlement where this achieves his clients’ objectives.

Ranked for a number of years by leading legal directories as a leading employment practitioner, Dale’s practice encompasses injunctions, restrictive covenant and confidential information disputes, bonuses, fiduciary duties, shareholder disputes, contractual disputes, statutory claims including discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal, TUPE, trade union litigation, internal investigations and mediation/ADR.

He also specialises in class-action litigation in the fields of equal pay and working time.

Silk 2019. Called 1997 (Inner Temple).

ELBA; ELA; COMBAR.