Employment

Cloisters is highly reputed for its expert knowledge in all aspects of employment law and is routinely instructed in ground-breaking cases at the leading edge of UK and European law. Recently described in the Legal 500 as the ‘best set in London for employment work‘.

Our award-winning employment team are widely recognised as experts in their field and skilfully set the agenda in employment law, appearing in almost all major employment litigation in the UK.

Our clients come from a broad range of industries including financial services, transport, education, unions, retail and technology. We also act for regulators such as the FCA, local authorities and regularly advise government departments. We are fearless advocates for our clients and take a practical and proactive approach to our work. We are prepared to work hard alongside you from beginning to end.

We look forward to working with you.

Specialisms

  • Bonus disputes

  • Collective labour law

  • Contract claims

  • Disciplinary and grievance procedures

  • Age, disability, race, sex and sexual orientation discrimination

  • Unfair and wrongful dismissal

  • Employee share schemes

  • Employers’ vicarious liability

  • Employment injunctions including; restrictive covenants, garden leave, confidential information, equal pay claims,

  • European community law

  • Fixed-term employee claims

  • Human rights law

  • Industrial disputes

  • Investigations

  • Jurisdiction

  • Maternity and parental rights

  • National minimum wage

  • Occupational injury and disease

  • Occupational stress

  • Part-time worker claims

  • Pensions

  • Redundancy

  • Restrictive covenants and injunctions

  • Trade union law

  • TUPE

  • Whistleblowing

  • Working time regulations

team

Robin Allen KC Year of silk: 1995

Paul Epstein KC Year of silk: 2006

Daphne Romney KC Year of silk: 2009

Jacques Algazy KC Year of silk: 2012

Caspar Glyn KC Year of silk: 2012

Jason Galbraith-Marten KC Year of silk: 2014

Rachel Crasnow KC Year of silk: 2015

Schona Jolly KC Year of silk: 2017

Tom Coghlin KC Year of silk: 2018

Ed Williams KC Year of silk: 2018

Akua Reindorf KC Year of silk: 2023

Sheryn Omeri KC Year of silk: 2023

Anna Beale KC Year of silk: 2024

Sarah Fraser Butlin KC Year of silk: 2024

Andrew Buchan Year of call: 1981

Declan O’Dempsey Year of call: 1987

Catherine Casserley Year of call: 1991

Yvette Genn Year of call: 1991

Paul Michell Year of call: 1991

John Horan Year of call: 1993

Carolyn D’Souza Year of call: 1994

Sally Robertson Year of call: 1995

Tom Brown Year of call: 2000

Claire McCann Year of call: 2000

Adam Ohringer Year of call: 2001

Dee Masters Year of call: 2004

Chris Milsom Year of call: 2006

Olivia-Faith Dobbie Year of call: 2007

Caroline Musgrave-Cohen Year of call: 2008

Nathaniel Caiden Year of call: 2009

Chesca Lord Year of call: 2011

Matthew Jackson Year of call: 2011

Rachel Barrett Year of call: 2012

Tamar Burton Year of call: 2012

Jennifer Danvers Year of call: 2012

Andrew Watson Year of call: 2013

Jonathan Cook Year of call: 2017

Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick Year of call: 2017

Laurene Veale Year of call: 2019

Charlotte Goodman Year of call: 2019

Josh Jackson Year of call: 2020

Dr Melanie Sharp Year of call: 2020

Helena Ifeka Year of call: 2020

Ameer Ismail Year of call: 2021

Laura Redman Year of call: 2021

Grace Corby Year of call: 2021

Rachel Chambers Year of call: 2002

Prof Alan Neal Year of call: 1975

Sir Stephen Sedley Year of call: 1983

Michael Potter Year of call: 1988

Jonathan Mitchell KC Year of call: 1979

Dame Laura Cox Year of call: 1973

Brian Napier KC Year of call: 1986

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