Qualifications
• Lancaster University , BA French: 1993-1997
• University of East Anglia, Diploma in Law: 1997-1998
• Chester College of Law, Legal Practice Course: 1999-2000
Experience
• Trained at Wollastons: 2001-2003
• Moved to Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) upon qualification in March 2003
• Working within REC legal team, advising recruitment agencies on a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work with a particular emphasis on employment status, employment agency legislation, email/internet/data protection and restraint of trade issues
• Joined Employment Department of BWB in May 2004
Type of Work Undertaken
Advising charities and commercial clients on a broad range of employment law and HR issues including:
• TUPE issues on mergers and service provision changes;
• drafting contractual documentation including contracts of employment, policies and bonus schemes;
• handling grievances and disciplinaries;
• carrying out redundancies;
• all aspects of discrimination work including equal pay;
• family friendly rights
Particular emphasis on:
• employment status including drafting and reviewing documentation for agency workers, consultants, home workers and bank staff;
• international clients with UK offices;
• specialist knowledge of recruitment agency legislation
Recent work
• Advising a large national charity on a nationwide programme of redundancies;
• Advising one of the UK's largest providers of health and social care on a restructure of their housing teams across England, Wales and Northern Ireland;
• Advising an educational trust on the employment status of their tutors and drafting documentation to be used by hundreds of tutors;
• Advising a large housing organisation on the dismissal of several members of their senior management team;
• Advising several charities on mergers following funding cuts
Pro bono; work
• Advisor at South West London Law Centres
Lectures/Publications
• Regular lectures at annual charity conference (Directory of Social Change); frequent lecturer at DSC seminars;
• Regular in-house training for clients;
• Frequent contributor of articles and model policies to XpertHR (Personnel Today);
• Co-presented lectures in employment agency legislation with DTI on a nationwide tour;
• Presenter at BWB breakfast seminars;
• Legal editor of 'Voluntary but not Amateur'
