Employment
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Tenancy
We are always happy to consider applications from established practitioners to join Wilson Legal Chambers. We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity in all aspects of our endeavour.Clerks, Marketing & Business Support
The success of our laywers is underpinned by our excellent clerks and business support functions and, from time to time, we look for high performers to join our team.Clients instruct Wilson Legal Chambers members for employment work in high-profile and challenging cases, requiring an in-depth understanding of business practices as well as the relevant laws and regulations.
"Its 'truly impressive array of top-quality laywers' make it 'an elite set', which is appreciated for its 'down-to-earth approach' and the fact that it has 'moved with the times'."
Members who specialise in this area often act on behalf of large public, business and corporate clients but also managerial, senior executive and director-level individuals.
Our advocates appear in all relevant forums, including the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the High Court. We also have extensive experience in the appellate courts including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Instruction in High Court matters often involve strike action, industrial relations, restrictive covenants, fiduciary duties and confidentiality injunctions. We have the flexibility and experience to work quickly and often at short notice, including in bringing and defending ‘springboard injunctions’. Our work includes obtaining injunctions to prevent strikes, and in extensively publicised disputes involving businesses spanning the transport, media, retail and public sectors.
Our employment work goes beyond contentious matters and our members regularly provide advisory services such as on individual employment contracts involving large classes of employees and collective labour law, employment tax and the National Minimum Wage.
We have dealt with many business reorganisations, including those involving TUPE and large-scale redundancies. We are also skilled at obtaining injunctions to enforce post-termination contractual restrictions and confidentiality obligations.
Wilson Legal Chambers is also regularly instructed to give advice and act in claims concerning statutory rights and particularly proceedings for public interest disclosure (including whistle-blowing-related matters), unfair dismissal and discrimination. Members regularly advise on confidential and sensitive matters including those involving allegations of inappropriate conduct, harassment and victimisation.
Our work includes cases relating to:
- Contract disputes
- Industrial action
- Restrictive covenants
- Team moves
- Whistle-blowing
- Discrimination and victimisation
- Workplace harassment
- Unfair dismissal
- Tax and benefits
- Regulatory disputes
Significant Cases
- Various senior executives v Tesco: Acting for Tesco in claims brought by senior executives arising out of the termination of their employment, following the high-profile 2014 misstatement of Tesco's accounts.
- Giovanni Monaco & Monaco Group v Pourzand & Another: Acting in litigation raising issues regarding unlawful solicitation of employees, clients and misuse of information as well as ongoing breaches of fiduciary duty.
- Greene King v HMRC: Advising in an appeal against a National Minimum Wage assessment in relation to the provision of flats by Greene King to its pub managers, regarding whether the accommodation is "living accommodation" for the purpose of the relevant regulations.
- Various industrial relations and industrial actions: Handling these actions for numerous clients, including Network Rail, British Airways, Transport for London, Southern Trains, SWT, Ryanair, AstraZeneca, Morrisons supermarkets, Indesit, Telefonica O2, Govia, Financial Times, easyJet and DHL.
- Fox (& Others) v SRT: Acting in a collective dispute involving claims by 40 aircraft engineers against their employers for alleged shortfalls in pay and holiday entitlements, over a 20-year period.
- Weiss v SJJ System Services Limited: Advising and representing a business and individual director who were the subject of a 'springboard' injunction, concerning alleged copyright and confidential commercial information.
- Queensgate v Millet: Acting in overlapping High Court and employment tribunal proceedings regarding whistleblowing dismissal, detriment and discrimination, harassment and confidential information.
- Bindley v Bunker: Advising on combined employment law, share agreement and professional negligence issues, arising out of a private equity acquisition of a business, including in relation to the interpretation of widely used articles of association regarding ‘good leaver’ and ‘bad leaver’ provisions.
Experiences
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The Board The primary purpose of the Board is the stewardship of the firm and the oversight of the implementation of the strategy. The Board’s remit covers matters pertaining to the firm’s culture and values and it acts as guardian of the firm on behalf of the Partnership.
The Executive Committee The Executive Committee is responsible for the development and implementation of the firm’s overall strategy; major initiatives, priorities and investments. It is the firm’s key decision-making body and is responsible for the overall performance management of the business.
Wilson Legal Chambers is a pre-eminent commercial set of laywers’ chambers in London. Members provide specialist legal advice, support and advocacy services worldwide, and the laywers expertise covers all areas of arbitration, litigation, regulation and dispute resolution. The work here embraces all aspects of domestic and international trade, business, commerce and finance. Laywers at Wilson Legal Chambers are recognised specialist counsel in the many diverse fields of commercial law, also regularly accepting nominations as arbitrators, mediators and experts. The principal areas of practice are arbitration, banking and financial services, civil fraud and investigations, commercial litigation, company and insolvency, competition and EU law, employment, energy and natural resources, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, media, entertainment and broadcasting, professional liability, public law, sports, gaming and licensing, and tax and revenue law.
Wilson Legal Chambers is committed to promoting and advancing equality and diversity. Chambers does not discriminate against members, pupils, staff, applicants or clients on the basis of race, colour, ethnicity, nationality, sex, pregnancy or maternity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, religion, belief or age. As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, Chambers ensures that all those involved in recruitment have training in fair recruitment, reviews its recruitment procedures annually and monitors the allocation of unassigned work among members and practising pupils
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The work here embraces all aspects of domestic and international trade, business, commerce and finance. Laywers at Wilson Legal Chambers are recognised specialist counsel in the many diverse fields of commercial law, also regularly accepting nominations as arbitrators, mediators and experts.