Antoine Tinnion

Employment

The Legal 500 has listed Antoine as a leading Employment barrister every year since 2011.  He has broad experience in all the main ET jurisdictions (discrimination, unfair and wrongful dismissal, wage disputes, breach of contract, TUPE, pregnancy/maternity claims, whistleblowing, equal pay) as well as some of the lesser known jurisdictions (appeals against industrial training levies).  He advises individual, corporate and public sector clients in High Court and County Court disputes involving Employment law (restrictive covenants, breach of confidence).  Antoine is an experienced appellate advocate (10 full EAT appeals, 1 Court of Appeal appeal), and has appeared in ETs in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In 2020 Antoine was appointed an Employment Judge in Scotland, and in 2021 as an Employment Judge in London Central ET.  He continues to act for claimants and respondents in all ETs where he does not sit as a judge.

Commercial/Chancery 

The Legal 500 has listed Antoine as a leading Commercial barrister since 2011. Antoine has specialised in business disputes since qualifying as a solicitor at Slaughter and May in 1996.  In 1997 – 2004, he practiced Commercial Litigation in New York at two major US firms (Debevoise & Plimpton, Skadden Arps).

Antoine’s Commercial practice involves advising and representing sole traders, partnerships, companies, shareholders, directors and those in dispute with them (customers, lenders, investors) in (1) contract disputes (2) debt collection (3) directors duties/disqualification (4) shareholder disputes (5) mis-selling (6) commercial landlord and tenant (7) corporate and personal insolvency (8) professional negligence (esp. involving solicitors) (9) construction (10) fraud/embezzlement (11) sale of goods (12) partnership disputes (13) breach of confidence (14) insurance.

Antoine has substantial experience drafting and arguing urgent interim applications, and obtained numerous interim freezing orders. His Commercial practise aims to combine technical expertise with pragmatic advice aimed at achieving the best commercial outcome at lowest cost. Antoine is experienced in the use of mediation/ADR to resolve commercial disputes.

Property

Antoine has a keen interest in disputes concerning land law and landlord and tenant matters (commercial and residential). He advises commercial and social landlords, tenants, banks and other lenders, developers, vendors, purchasers, agents, neighbours and those dealing with them.

APPOINTMENTS Antoine was appointed an Employment Judge in Scotland in 2020 and in London Central ET in 2021.  Antoine is on the Attorney General's Regional Panel of Counsel, and is regularly instructed by the Government Legal Department in Employment and Commercial/Insolvency-related matters. MEMBERSHIPS Employment Law Bar Association North East Circuit ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

“Selection Box: Employers Enjoy High Degree of Flexibility When Choosing Redundancy Selection Criteria”, New Law Journal, 16 November 2012 

EDUCATION, HONOURS, AWARDS, QUALIFICATIONS Cambridge University - BA in Law (1st Class Honours), Sidney Sussex College Scholar, Tripos Prize Oxford University - MA in Politics Philosophy & Economics Harvard Law School - Masters degree in Law, financial scholarship Admitted to New York Bar (1998) Admitted to Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales (1996) DIRECT ACCESS

Antoine is able to consider instructions direct from members of the public. Any requests should be directed to his clerks in the first instance.

Oxford University (1991 MA Hons Politics Philosophy and Economics); Cambridge University (1993 BA First Class Hons Law); College of Law, York (1994 LPC); Harvard Law School (1997 LLM).