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Employment

The Employment Law Group is well established across all levels of call. Acting for both employers and employees we undertake work in Employment Tribunals and the civil courts, as well as at appellate level throughout the UK, and in the European Court of Justice.

Members of the Group have in-depth experience of both advisory and contentious employment work in relation to the full range of statutory employment rights, including unfair dismissal and redundancy, discrimination, equal pay, whistleblowing, TUPE, employee/worker status, and working time. Members are equally at home advising on employee competition matters and other common-law employment disputes.


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Recent high profile cases at higher appellate level include Hospital Medical Group v Westwood (CA – worker status), Autoclenz v Belcher (SC – employee status), and King v Sash Window Workshop (CA and ECJ – holiday pay).

The breadth of practice areas across chambers means that many of the employment team also have considerable experience in areas relevant to the employment relationship, such as IP, partnership/shareholder issues, workplace health and safety, and employer’s liability. Members are used to working on complex cases which require teamwork with other disciplines and a sympathetic understanding of overall commercial and social objectives.

Several junior members of the group have in house experience with City and national solicitors firms. A number of more senior members are qualified mediators, are cited as leading juniors in the legal directories, and hold part-time judicial appointments, including as Employment Judge.

Patrick Green and Adam Heppinstall are authors of “The Manual of Employment Appeals”, (Jordans), which has been favourably cited in the Court of Appeal.

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Representative cases

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  • King v The Sash Window Workshop Ltd C-214/16

    This landmark case concerns working time and a worker’s entitlement to a payment in lieu on termination for accrued but untaken holiday, particularly in cases where employment status has been miscategorised.

    The ECJ delivered its judgment in November 2017, whereupon the case returned to the Court of Appeal. James has acted for Mr King as sole counsel at every stage since the ET1 was drafted in 2012. In the EAT the case also considered questions of compensation in discrimination claims: see [2015] IRLR 348. James has acted pro bono in this case since the end of 2014.

Employment Barristers


Peter Susman KC
Call: 1966 Silk: 1997

Professor Sir Alan Dashwood KC
Call: 1969 Silk: 2010

Patrick Green KC
Call: 1990 Silk: 2012

Angus Withington KC
Call: 1995 Silk: 2021

Adam Heppinstall KC
Call: 1999 Silk: 2021

Kathleen Donnelly KC
Call: 2005 Silk: 2023

James Palmer
Call: 1983

David Brook
Call: 1988

Noel Dilworth
Call: 2001

Abigail Cohen
Call: 2005

Hannah Curtain
Call: 2010

James Williams
Call: 2010 (Solicitor: 2008)

Chloe Campbell
Call: 2011

Lia Moses
Call: 2014

James White
Call: 2014

Reanne MacKenzie
Call: 2016

Beatrice Graham
Call: 2016

Freya Foster
Call: 2017

Ben Norton
Call: 2017

Jack Castle
Call: 2018

Thomas Mallon
Call: 2019

Weishi Yang
Call: 2021

Isha Shakir
Call: 2022

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