42BR Barristers

Gillian is an established practitioner specialising in all areas of employment law. She was called to the bar in 1998.

Gillian is a member of the both the Employment Law Bar Association and the Employment Lawyers Association.

Her practice includes the whole range of employment issues, including TUPE, Working Time Regulations, and claims of unfair dismissal through to discrimination claims, with an emphasis on complex disability discrimination claims and whistleblowing claims for respondent employers

Gillian deals efficiently and effectively with drafting pleadings and advices, and attends case management preliminary hearings, preliminary issues, applications, judicial mediation hearings, full merits hearings, remedy hearings, reconsiderations and appeals dealing with the following areas:

Discrimination based on sex, race, pregnancy and maternity, religion and belief, age, disability, including hearings to determine disability, particular interest in disability claims Whistleblowing claims, including detriment and dismissal claims and vicarious liability for acts of colleagues Ordinary and automatically unfair dismissal Redundancy Employment status Interim relief Negotiating and drafting settlement agreements and COT3 agreement Regulatory fitness to practice panels – GMC and NMC Service provision discrimination cases in the County Court Employment related injunctions in the High Court in relation to restraint of trade and confidential information Rule 50 applications Admissibility of pre-termination negotiations National Minimum Wage and other wages claims Holiday pay claims Applications for costs