Gareth accepts instructions in all areas of employment law and has significant experience across it despite his junior Call. He is accustomed to working in cases ranging from those involving vulnerable claimants to high-net-worth individuals, from small employers to large public bodies and health trusts. His personable style ensures he is adept at managing client relationships throughout.
Recent cases include:
- Several multi-day and multi-week discrimination, dismissal and whistleblowing claims (including drafting pleadings, advising and attending preliminary hearings as part of those claims);
- Many public preliminary hearings considering jurisdiction, disability and procedural issues;
- Representing a public figure in proceedings against their former employer;
- Representing multiple claimants in a Hogg v Dover dismissal claim, as well as a dismissal claim regarding implied terms and unilateral variation;
- Successfully defending several discrimination claims valued in excess of £100,000 at multi-day hearings;
- Advising on redundancy consultation obligations;
- Advising on the application of collective agreements in proceedings brought against a public body;
- Advising on TUPE implications for a large public body;
- Successfully defending an appeal in the EAT for a claim struck out at a preliminary stage;
- Drafting an EAT response in one of the largest discrimination awards ever given in the ET;
- Assisting a senior member of Chambers in prospective injunction proceedings in a claim of post-termination restraint.
