Adam practises in all areas of employment law, including unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination and contractual disputes. He has extensive experience of multi-week Tribunal cases, remedy hearings and costs hearings. In 2021, he was led by Eleena Misra in injunctive relief proceedings in the High Court.
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Andrew is an employment law specialist with 18 years’ experience, and 12 years’ specialism. He was appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Treasury Counsel (South west) in 2010 and promoted to the A Panel in April 2018. He is instructed in complex cases, often where there is an issue of policy construction or where an issue of the enforceability of restrictive covenants and/or breach of fiduciary duty arises. Consequently, he has 1 reported cases in the Court of Appeal and 12 in the EAT. A significant portion of his work consists of discrimination, victimisation and whistleblowing claims, particularly sex and disability discrimination His broad experience includes all forms of discrimination, Including the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST), employment status, working time, holiday pay and national minimum wage claims, illegality and immigration status, business reorganisations, redundancies and TUPE, He is instructed by Government departments, NHS trusts, local authorities, the Metropolitan Police, Unions and insurance companies to appear in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the county court and High Court and Court of Appeal. He delivers seminars in relation to new legislation and case law for the ELA and professional clients.
Anna Dannreuther has a cross-disciplinary practice in employment and equality, commercial and public law. She appears in complex cross-border group litigation disputes and is well-versed in challenges to jurisdiction and the procedural issues these cases raise.
Anna’s recent instructions include acting in the ‘Dieselgate’ litigation against a number of diesel vehicle manufacturers and the Uber Drivers litigation.
Anna is particularly adept at advising in cases raising public law and human rights issues. Anna is on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel. As part of this role, Anna represents and advises a range of Government Departments and public sector bodies in judicial reviews, employment law, and other fields.
Alongside cases where she works as part of a counsel team, Anna regularly acts as sole counsel for public bodies and private clients in her own right. She has appeared in complex discrimination, whistleblowing, human rights and unfair dismissal claims in the Employment Tribunal and EAT, as well as appearing in the High Court and Court of Protection.
Christopher is a catastrophic personal injury specialist, instructed on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants. His work is predominantly conducted against silks, whether led or instructed alone. Christopher has considerable experience in litigating the established categories of employer liability, road traffic accident and public liability claims and has a reputation as a skilled negotiator. His practice encompasses clinical negligence claims, health and safety prosecutions, coroners' inquests and litigation with a focus on human rights. Recently concluded litigation acting alone includes a £4.9 million capitalised severe brain damage award approved by the High Court, and a £3.35 million fatal accident award. His current caseload includes claims for severe brain injury (rtas, accident at work), paraplegia (public liability & rta), brachial plexus and other severe, multiple orthopaedic injuries, including traumatic amputation.
Daniel Neill specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and regulatory work (healthcare).
He has a busy personal injury practice, acting for claimants and defendants in a broad spectrum of claims. He has recently settled a chronic pain claim for a former member of the armed forces for £800,000 and a claim on behalf of several vulnerable dependants following a fatal road traffic accident for £1million. He is regularly instructed by defendants in employers’ liability claims and where fundamental dishonesty is alleged. He undertakes work in all the usual practice areas.
His clinical negligence practice ranges from surgical and obstetrics claims to more niche areas such as ophthalmology and dentistry. He has a loyal following of solicitors with whom he enjoys working closely from the very outset of cases, providing a strategic overview from pre-action correspondence to settlement or trial.
His regulatory cases have covered a panoply of performance, conduct, competence and health issues.
Daniel also sits as a Recorder on the Western Circuit, dealing with criminal matters.
Helen’s main area of practice is discrimination law and equal pay. She advises and represents claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal and on appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Her practice is approximately divided between acting for employees (mainly supported by their trade unions) and for a range of public sector and private sector employers. She is involved in a number of significant equal pay claims, most notably a multi-claimant claim against the Audit Commission as detailed below. During the last 12 months she has presented a number of talks on topics relating to her practice. For example, she was a speaker at a LexisNexis webinar on discrimination law. Significant work/case highlights over the past 12 months include: Harrison v Opportunity Housing Association; Haq and others v Audit Commission in the Court of Appeal; a trade union blackmailing case and defending a local authority in a 12 day race discrimination claim.
Hilary Winstone is a talented and knowledgeable junior specialising in employment and discrimination law. She has extensive experience acting successfully for large corporate clients, as well as local authorities, police forces and the NHS, dealing with internal and external disputes as well as mediation. She is known for being very client friendly and an enormously effective advocate, able to deal with difficult and highly charged cases. Her recent cases include Angela Bailey v Central and Northwest London NHS FT (successfully represented defendant in complex case involving claims of whistleblowing, disability discrimination and victimisation); Kitaka v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis (successfully represented defendant in case involving regulation breaches and subsequent claims of unfair dismissal); Boam v South Staffs & Shropshire Healthcare NHS FT (pending appeal following successful defence on behalf of defendant against claims of whistleblowing); R v W (complex claim of disability discrimination based on claimants unwillingness to disclose information to their employer to allow for reasonable adjustments).
Barrister specialising in all aspects of personal injury claims (including accidents at work, industrial disease, road traffic accidents, highway claims, criminal injuries and CRU) with a mostly claimant-based practice. Significant cases include: Buck v Notts Healthcare NHST [2006] EWCA Civ 1597 (duty of psychiatric hospital to protect staff against assaults); Hilton v Smith [2001] PIQR P197 (effect of reduction of CRU certificate on Pt 36 payment) and Goldscheider v Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation [2018] EWHC 687 (QB) (Acoustic shock injury, professional musician, Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005).
and collective employment tribunal work, including equal pay, unfair and constructive dismissals, whistle-blowing, redundancy, TUPE and all areas of discrimination law. Kara undertakes work for employers, individuals and trade unions and regularly appears in Employment Tribunals representing both claimants and respondents. She is frequently instructed in complex and multi-day discrimination cases including cases involving multiple types of discrimination. Kara recently acted as an independent investigator in an internal grievance procedure on behalf of a charitable organisation and regularly provides advice both in conference and in writing on all aspects of employment law. She also undertakes work in professional disciplinary proceedings and has recently appeared before the NMC. Kara acts for both claimants and defendants in personal injury cases including drafting pleadings and advice. She represents clients at trial in a variety of fast track and small claims matters including road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, occupiers liability, credit hire and highways cases as well as at applications and disposal hearings in fast track and multi-track cases.
Hall of fame
Main areas of practice are employment law (including equal pay, working time, pensions, industrial action, and trade union law), public law, human rights. Many appearances in ECJ, European Court of Human Rights, Supreme Court, House of Lords, public inquiries. Recent cases include: R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor, SC (tribunal fees); Lock v British Gas, ECJ, CA (holiday pay); Griffiths v DWP, CA (disability discrimination); ISS v Mediclean (strike injunction); Bear Scotland v Fulton, EAT (working time); Chandhok v Tirkey, EAT (caste discrimination); RMT v United Kingdom, ECtHR (right to strike); British Airways v. Williams, SC, ECJ. On Equality and Human Rights Commission ‘A’ Panel of Counsel; advisor to BEIS inquiry into workers’ rights.
Clinical Negligence
Employment, Discrimination, General Commercial.
Simon is a specialist personal injury practitioner of over 5 years experience. He is frequently instructed by the country’s largest legal expense insurers and leading trade unions to represent claimants who have suffered serious and catastrophic injury. He is regularly instructed in claims valued up to and in excess of half a million pounds. Prior to coming to the Bar in 2010, Simon worked in house for a national firm of personal injury solicitors. As a result he has an in depth understanding of day to day litigation and has the advantage of being able to use this experience to provide invaluable tactical advice at all stages of a claim. He has quickly developed a reputation as a hard working and determined barrister who fights hard to ensure the best result possible for his clients. He is known for being easily approachable and for his ability to quickly engage with clients in conference.
Personal Injury, employment, professional discipline