Gareth Deane

Call: 2021

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Overview

Gareth accepts instructions across Chambers’ core practice areas and has particular experience in employment law, discrimination and across the law of negligence. He is regularly on his feet in the Employment Tribunal and civil courts, alongside of which he maintains a busy paperwork practice.

Gareth’s employment practice involves routinely appearing multi-day and multi-week Employment Tribunal hearings, as well as public and private preliminary hearings. Recent cases have included claims of discrimination, whistleblowing, breach of contract, restrictive covenants, dismissal and a large array of preliminary issues. He regularly advises on those areas, as well as on matters pertaining to TUPE, trade union rights, tribunal procedure and appeals. Gareth also deals with, and has recently been instructed in, employment matters heard in the civil courts such as injunctive proceedings and breach of contract claims (both intermediate and multi-track).

Gareth is regularly instructed in discrimination claims outside of the employment context in the County Court and First-Tier Tribunal, such as service provision discrimination and in education.

In Gareth’s personal injury work and negligence work more generally, he represents both Claimants and Defendants. He accepts instructions in matters brought in the fast, intermediate, and multi-track, and regularly attends the civil courts in CCMCs, applications and final hearings. He has been instructed, and successfully appeared, in cases involving fundamental dishonesty and fraud.

Gareth also accepts instructions in other areas of Chambers’ work, such as costs and breach of contract, inquests, information law/privacy rights, professional discipline, and education law.

Academics

LLM with Distinction (University of Pennsylvania, 2022)

BCL, Distinction (Jesus College, University of Oxford, 2021)

BPTC, Very Competent (BPP Law School, 2020)

LLB Law with Hispanic Law, First Class Honours (UCL, 2019)

Awards

Thouron Scholar (Thouron Award & University of Pennsylvania, 2021)

Peter North Scholar (Jesus College, University of Oxford, 2021)

Advocacy Scholar (BPP Law School, 2019)

Leonard Sainer Scholar (UCL, 2019)

Dean’s List (UCL, 2019)

Old Square Chambers Employment Law Prize (UCL, 2019)