London Bar
Employment
Leading silk2Betsan Criddle KC – Old Square Chambers 'Betsan is unflappable. She has excellent technical skills and instills confidence with her incisive advice.'
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Betsan Criddle KC
Old Square Chambers, London
- Phone020 7269 0300
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Work Department
Employment and discrimination law; personal injury.
Position
All areas of employment and discrimination law and professional discipline, including High Court contractual and disciplinary disputes, industrial action injunctions and judicial review proceedings. Recent highlights include: R (FBU) v SYFRA [2018] EWHC 1229 (Admin) (successful judicial review of working pattern in breach of WTR 1998); Coletta v Bath Hill Court (Bournemouth) Property Management Ltd UKEAT/0200/17/RN (whether recoverability of deductions from wages is subject to the Limitation Act 1980 and a six year back stop); Galilee v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2018] ICR 634 (no requirement to resolve if claim in time in deciding whether to grant permission to amend); Wandsworth LBC v Vining [2018] ICR 499 (exclusion of those in police service from trade union employment rights incompatible with Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights).
Career
MA (Hons) Law, St John's College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar 2002
Publications:
Employment Precedents and Company Law Documents (Sweet & Maxwell); Employment Law Review (Institute of Employment Rights); Employment Tribunal Procedure (LAG).
Languages
Fluent Welsh speaker and able to conduct litigation through the medium of Welsh.
Memberships
ELA, ELBA, ILS, ARDL.
Education
Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw, Pontypool; St John’s College, Cambridge (2000 MA Hons).
Mentions
London Bar
Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
Leading silk4Betsan Criddle KC - Old Square Chambers 'An excellent barrister with great attention to detail to deal with complex cases. She has first-class client skills, and is able to explain technically complex issues with ease and focus the client on the key issues to progress the case, even with the most difficult of clients. '