England - South West • Employment
Stephens Scown LLP
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At Stephens Scown LLP the practice is divided into three sub-specialisms, namely litigation, corporate support and employer support. The offering, which has a ‘wide range of abilities, knowledge and experience’, is led by Ellie Hibberd, who also has strategic oversight of the HR express scheme, an innovative HR offering for employer clients. Verity Slater’s expertise lies in employer support, while Joe Nicholls leads the litigation sub-department, which handles the gamut of whistleblowing and discrimination cases. Laura McFadyen heads up the corporate support sub-group.
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Testimonials
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‘Working with Verity Slater is like having a business partner. Verity has taken the time to get to know our organisation and to understand the outcomes we need. This enables her to really help support us with our employment practices. Verity offers us options and expert advice but allows us to make the decisions which are important to us.’
‘The team at Stephens Scown has a wide range of abilities, knowledge and experience. It is entirely possible to receive different areas of legal advice to a very high standard, with each member of the team connected and undertanding the wider implications to a business. Stephens Scown also pull off extremely well the balance of a high-value service, at low cost and with a local feel but comparable to a larger firm.’
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Key clients
- Age UK
- Plymouth CAST (multi-academy trust of 38 catholic schools)
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Work highlights
- Represented a GP in a whistleblowing claim against their former practice, following detrimental treatment and dismissal for having raised concerns.
- Represented UK DBS in a litigated dispute being pursued by former in-house counsel, which relates to allegations of whistleblowing detriments and constructive unfair dismissal.
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