Employment
James deals with a wide range of Employment and Equality cases, involving litigation on service contracts, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, discrimination and wrongful and unfair dismissal, whistle blowing and advising on TUPE and contractual interpretation
As well as High Court litigation, he regularly appears in the Employment Tribunals (throughout England), for both Claimant and Respondent clients.
Recently reported cases
By way of illustration of the breadth of James’s employment practice, some recent reported cases are:
Humed -v- Sight and Sound Solutions Ltd [2023] EAT 53 – James represented the successful appellant in the EAT in a victimisation claim under the Equality Act.
Holmes -v- Tellemachus 2022 EAT 71 (EAT) –a case involving constructive dismissal and the application of the penalty clause doctrine.
Greenberg -v- DPP Law 2021 EWCA Civ 672 Court of Appeal; EAT 2020 8WLUK 40 EAT – This case related to solicitors and disciplinary procedures
Hewson -v- Bar Standards Board 2021 EWHC 28 –James represented the BSB in this case regarding social media abuse and second appeals.
Couvaras -v- Fine Clinic Limited 2202750/2020 (reported 2021) – James represented the successful Respondent company in a whistleblowing claim where the issue of employee/worker status was addressed.
British Council -v- Jeffery 2018 EWCA Civ 2553 Court of Appeal –James represented the successful claimant in this significant appeal dealing with employees working abroad, conflict of laws and human rights.
Shah -v- Insafe International Ltd 2017 EWHC 1036 (Ch) –This commercial contract case related to employee benefit trusts.