employment
Our pioneering team sets the agenda in employment law. We appear in almost all major employment litigation and are recognised as leading experts on equality and discrimination issues. We represent both employees and employers.
The ground-breaking work of our barristers has recently included a number of landmark cases resulting in the end of the current default retirement age and the extension of discrimination provisions to cover carers for those with disabilities.
We represent individuals from school kitchen assistants to premiership football players and employers ranging from the biggest multinationals to SMEs. We advise across all industry sectors ranging from media to financial services and public sector bodies and regulators from the Fire Service to the FSA.
Our award-winning employment team includes both the Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association and the Chair of the Industrial Law Society, as well as the immediate past Chair of the Discrimination Law Association. We cover a wide range of employment law and related areas including:
- Bonus disputes
- Collective labour law
- Contract claims
- Disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Age discrimination
- Disability discrimination
- Race discrimination
- Sex discrimination
- 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
- 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
- barristers
- Jacques Algazy
- Sheryn Omeri
- Robin Allen QC
- Anna Beale
- Nathaniel Caiden
- Thomas Brown
- Andrew Buchan
- Yvette Budé
- Catherine Casserley
- Rachel Chambers
- Tom Coghlin
- Sally Cowen
- Rachel Crasnow
- Olivia-Faith Dobbie
- Will Dobson
- Daniel Dyal
- Simon Dyer
- Philip Engelman
- Paul Epstein QC
- Sarah Fraser Butlin
- Jason Galbraith-Marten
- Yvette Genn
- Caspar Glyn
- John Horan
- Schona Jolly
- David Jones
- David Massarella
- Dee Masters
- Claire McCann
- Paul Michell
- Chris Milsom
- Caroline Musgrave
- Brian Napier QC
- Professor Alan Neal
- Adam Ohringer
- Declan O'Dempsey
- Akua Reindorf
- Sally Robertson
- Daphne Romney QC
- Martin Seaward
- Catriona Stirling
- Ed Williams
related news
Cloisters has given two seminars on the Equality Act 2010:
‘Navigating the new discrimination framework’ (a guide to key changes under the Act)
'The dog is no longer a problem’ (the reversal of Malcolm and other changes to disability discrimination under the Act)
Click here to find out more.
related publications
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Philip Engleman (education) and Paul Michell (employment) are specialist contributors to Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings 2008
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Robin Allen QC has written Employment Law and Human Rights £49.95 (with Rachel Crasnow and Anna Beale of Cloisters, OUP, 2nd Edtion September 2007)
- Declan O'Dempsey and Schona Jolly (co-author) have written the Age Discrimination Handbook £35.00 published by Legal Action
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Ed Williams is a contributing author to Discrimination in Employment Law,Sweet & Maxwell £100