XpertHR contributors
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Guy Abbiss Abbiss Cadres LLP |
Guy Abbiss is senior partner of Abbiss Cadres LLP, a firm offering a unique combination of expertise in law and tax, people consulting and communications. His wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary experience includes leading UK and international employment and employee incentives practices in UK and US law firms.
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Olga Aikin |
Olga Aikin CBE has written regularly on employment law for People Management magazine. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, she has written several books and has edited a series on law and employment.
Olga established the Aikin Driver Partnership to advise on practical aspects of employment law and personnel issues.
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Gita Anand Miller Thomson |
Gita Anand is a partner in Miller Thomson's Toronto office. Further, she is currently the National Practice Chair of Miller Thomson's Labour and Employment Specialty Group, and the Chair of the National Diversity Committee.
Ms Anand's practice is restricted to labour relations, employment law and litigation. Advising and representing management on a wide range of matters, she acts for clients within the private and public sector in both union and non-union workplaces. She has significant experience in advising clients on labour relations and employment law issues in the broadcasting, food and beverage, health and charitable and non-profit corporate sectors. Ms Anand also acts as an investigator/fact-finder in the public and private sectors, conducting workplace investigations involving employment-related issues.
She advises on such matters as employment standards, human rights, wrongful dismissal, occupational health and safety, employment contracts, pay and employment equity, and the interpretation and administration of collective agreements. She also acts as employer adviser and spokesperson in collective bargaining.
She has special expertise as counsel in wrongful dismissal, labour arbitration, employment standards, occupational health and safety matters, and human rights issues.
Ms Anand appears regularly as employer counsel at grievance and interest arbitrations, before administrative tribunals and at the Ontario Labour Relations Board. She also represents clients in the federal sector and acts as counsel on adjudications under the Canada Labour Code, and before various federal tribunals, including the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
She has appeared at all levels of Court in Ontario, and has acted as counsel on behalf of several Ontario Ministries before the Grievance Settlement Board, Public Service Grievance Board, and Boards of Inquiry.
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Laurie Anstis Boyes Turner LLP |
Laurie Anstis is a senior associate with Boyes Turner LLP, specialising in employment law.
Laurie acts as an advocate in employment tribunals across Britain and in the industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland. He is also an employment law trainer and member of the Law Society's Employment Law Committee.
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Nicola Appleton Lewis Silkin |
Nicola Appleton is a solicitor in the immigration team at Lewis Silkin.
Nicola.Appleton@lewissilkin.com
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Emma Bailey Fox Williams LLP |
Emma Bailey heads the tax and incentives practice at Fox Williams LLP, having joined as a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in March 2010. She has had extensive experience advising UK and overseas clients that include listed companies, mid-tier corporates, owner-managed businesses, partnerships/LLP's and individuals on a broad range of tax matters, including in the context of public and private mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, public listings and offerings, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, inward and outbound investment, property, and other financings and tax-structured financial products.
Emma specialises in employee share schemes and management incentive arrangements. She also advises widely on tax issues affecting entrepreneurs (including the venture capital tax schemes) and works closely with Fox Williams' professional practice and employment groups in relation to the tax issues arising in the context of partnerships and LLPs, and the remuneration of employees, directors and partners.
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Bridget Barker Macfarlanes |
Bridget Barker joined Macfarlanes in 1981 and has been a partner since 1988. Bridget is head of the investment funds and financial services group at the firm. She advises clients on establishing both onshore and offshore private funds for private equity, real estate, mezzanine, infrastructure, renewable energy and other types of funds. She has considerable experience acting for both fund managers and also for a variety of investors from both the UK and abroad. In addition, Bridget advises on a variety of financial services and regulatory issues.
Bridget was listed in the table of "Most highly regarded individuals" in the International Who's Who of Private Fund Lawyers in 2012. She has also been shortlisted as "Female private equity adviser of the year" in the Awards for Excellence in Private Equity Advisory Services, Europe 2010 and for IFLR Women in Business Law awards in the investment funds category.
bridget.barker@macfarlanes.com
www.macfarlanes.com
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Mark Barnett Steeles Law LLP |
Mark Barnett is a specialist UK immigration solicitor at Steeles Law LLP.
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Gary Bates Steps |
Gary Bates is a director at leading drama-based training company, Steps. He is passionate about using drama and the skills of professional actors to shift fundamentally people's mindset and inspire real behavioural change.
Gary has worked with a wide range of organisations including Sky, Vodafone, British Airways, Barclays, Council of Europe, Linklaters, RNLI and The Co-operative Group, helping them to embed key values and behaviours. In addition to being a highly skilled designer of learning programmes, Gary is also an engaging facilitator and actor and has delivered programmes across the globe.
Steps is a leading provider of experiential drama-based training with over 20 years' experience. The company specialises in developing facilitated interactive learning, using drama, to inspire people to act differently. Programmes are tailored to each client, covering areas including diversity, performance management, challenging conversations and customer service.
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Chris Bevan Workable Management Solutions Ltd |
Chris Bevan is the managing director of Workable Management Solutions Ltd, an HR, health and safety and environmental consultancy based in Worcestershire, whose clients include government departments and agencies in England and Wales, the NHS, local government, trade unions and private sector employers.
Chris is a highly experienced HR specialist with a proven track record in job evaluation and employee relations at national level. She has worked in these areas since 1991, and is a chartered member of the CIPD, a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the Institute for Learning and an independent expert for Acas. She has a strong commitment to enhancing skills development and employability and lectures in HR management and leadership and management.
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Claire Birkinshaw Abbey Legal Protection |
Claire Birkinshaw qualified as a solicitor in 1994. She worked at two of the top 10 London law firms and as legal adviser to the Ministry of Defence before joining Abbey Legal Protection in October 1998. Claire specialises in employment law and currently works as a legal information manager.
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Richard Bretton Osborne Clarke |
Richard Bretton qualified as a solicitor in 1978 and has specialised in health and safety for over 20 years. Since 1993 he has been a partner at Osborne Clarke and head of its Health, Safety and Regulatory Unit. Richard is rated by Chambers' Guide to the legal profession and the Legal 500 as the leading health and safety lawyer in the South West and Wales.
He has advised a wide range of corporate clients, in both the private and public sector, on health, safety and fire issues, and is an experienced lecturer and trainer. Although Richard prefers to advise before things go wrong, he has very wide experience of enforcement procedures and criminal proceedings and has acted in many recent high-profile cases.
richard.bretton@osborneclarke.com
www.osborneclarke.com
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Patrick Brodie RPC LLP |
Patrick Brodie is a partner at RPC LLP. He focuses on restructuring and reorganisation across both the public and private sectors and is recognised for resolving complex workforce issues. Patrick is a previous winner of The Lawyer's employment team of the year award. Patrick's expertise extends to financial services regulation, whistleblowing and corporate governance.
Patrick.Brodie@rpc.co.uk
www.rpc.co.uk
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Sarah Bull Bates Wells & Braithwaite |
Sarah Bull is a senior associate at Bates Wells & Braithwaite.
After training at corporate law firm Wollastons, on qualification in March 2003, Sarah moved to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) to pursue her interest in employment law. At the REC, Sarah advised recruitment agencies on a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work.
In May 2004, Sarah joined the employment department at Bates Wells & Braithwaite, where she advises charities and commercial employers on TUPE issues on mergers and service provision changes, handling grievances and disciplinaries and carrying out redundancies.
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Mark Carley |
Mark Carley was consultant editor of the international section of the XpertHR employment reference manual from 2007 to 2012, and original and updating author of the Belgium and France chapters, and updating editor of the Ireland chapter. He is a researcher, writer and editor with over 20 years' experience in European and global employment law and practice. Formerly editor of the European Industrial Relations Observatory, European Industrial Relations Review, European Employment Review and European Works Councils Bulletin, he is currently a freelance consultant and an Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick.
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Laura Carlson Stockholm University |
Laura Carlson is an associate professor at Stockholm University School of Law in the area of private law, with a focus on employment and discrimination law. She has a Juris Doktor from Stockholm University School of Law, Masters of Law from Uppsala University School of Law, Sweden, a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota School of Law, USA and a BA in History from Carleton College, USA.
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Laura Cassiani Miller Thomson |
Laura Cassiani is a partner in the Labour Relations & Employment Law Group in Miller Thomson's Toronto office.
Laura provides both labour relations and employment law advice to a wide range of public and private sector employers on a variety of workplace issues, including human rights management and litigation, discipline and wrongful dismissal matters, workplace privacy, health and safety, and grievance management. She represents clients before administrative tribunals, arbitrators and the courts.
She is currently serving her third term as a Member-at-Large of the Ontario Bar Association's Labour and Employment Law Executive. She frequently speaks and writes on issues of importance with respect to labour and employment law, and she is currently the editor of the Group's provincial and national labour and employment law newsletters.
Laura joined the Group after completing her articles with Miller Thomson and on her call to the Bar in 2005. She spent several months during her articles seconded to the Ontario Labour Relations Board, where she provided research assistance to the Board's adjudicators and solicitors.
Prior to commencing her legal career, Laura worked as a newspaper reporter for The Hamilton Spectator and content editor for a legal publishing house. She subsequently worked as the employment and labour reporter for The Canadian HR Reporter.
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Jonathan Chamberlain Wragge & Co LLP |
Jonathan Chamberlain is a partner in the employment team at Wragge & Co LLP.
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Greg Chambers Osborne Clarke |
Greg Chambers qualified as a solicitor specialising in employment law in 2004. He worked in the City before joining Osborne Clarke's Bristol employment practice in 2008. He advises on all areas of employment law.
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Nick Chan Squire Sanders |
Nick Chan is a Partner of Squire Sanders, a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers in 37 offices and 18 countries.
Nick has a computer science background and has served in-house at Cisco and AT&T. Nick takes pride in providing cost-effective practical legal solutions, and his practice covers about two dozen countries.
His clients include various leading and emerging governments, MNCs and NGOs in specialized industries, including telecommunications, broadcasting, information and emerging technologies, healthcare, aviation, energy, real estate, entertainment, advertising, logistics, global sourcing and petroleum. His expertise has been recognized in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers since 2004.
He was also recognized in The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers. Legal 500 Asia Pacific recommends Nick with distinction for his telecommunications practice. Legal Media Group named Nick in the Guide to the World's Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers.
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Peter Chandler |
Peter Chandler is an independent employment law and health and safety consultant, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is the author of several books in these and related fields, and currently contributes to a number of loose-leaf publications and magazines, pocket guides and briefings.
Peter has lectured widely on employment law and industrial relations, and was engaged for four years as a freelance consultant on a popular employment law help line. In his earlier years he worked as both a frontline and a backroom personnel specialist for a major British manufacturing company.
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Ravi Chandran National University of Singapore |
Ravi Chandran graduated from Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore in 1991. He was in private practice for some time before he set off to do his Masters in Law at Queen's College, Cambridge University.
He returned in 1995 and since then has been teaching in the School of Business, National University of Singapore. He teaches various subjects including employment law.
He has published widely in the area of employment law, both locally and internationally, and his work has been cited in court judgments, books and journal articles. His opinion on employment law matters has been sought by, among others, law firms, government-linked organisations and the International Labour Organisation. He is also currently the Vice-President of the Asian Society of Labour Law Scholars.
National University of Singapore: Ravi Chandran
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Kelly Chapman RPC LLP |
Kelly Chapman qualified as an employment lawyer in 2004 and joined the employment, pensions and incentives team at RPC LLP in September 2010. She advises clients in a variety of sectors, principally on complex outsourcing transactions and significant change programmes. Kelly has advised frequently on TUPE/the Acquired Rights Directive (2001/23/EC) in relation to transactions across Europe. She is a regular contributor to practitioner and academic publications and delivers training to clients on employment law issues.
Kelly.Chapman@rpc.co.uk
www.rpc.co.uk
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Mark Childs Total Reward Group |
Mark Childs is managing director of the Total Reward Group and a chartered companion and former vice-president reward of the CIPD. Before commencing his second career in consulting, he had built 20 years' corporate experience including as global compensation and benefits director in five FTSE100/Fortune 500 firms. His early career was as an HR generalist and he has an academic background in industrial relations.
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Emma Clark Abbiss Cadres LLP |
Emma Clark is a partner at Abbiss Cadres LLP, a firm offering a unique combination of expertise in law and tax, people consulting and communications. She specialises in providing bespoke employment and partnership law advice to organisations and senior executives.
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Sonal Cooke Collyer Bristow LLP |
Sonal Cooke is a solicitor at Collyer Bristow LLP. Sonal is a member of the Employment Team and advises individuals and corporations on a full range of employment issues, including the effective management of disciplinary and grievance procedures on behalf of employers.
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Tron Dalheim Arntzen de Besche |
Tron Dalheim is an experienced employment law specialist and is currently head of the employment department at Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS. Prior to joining Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma he worked as a lawyer for the Norwegian Shipowners' Association and as a legal advisor at the Supreme Court of Norway. He has wide experience in counseling and litigation within the field of employment law. Dalheim has participated in a number of large litigation cases and has appeared before the Supreme Court, the Labour Court of Norway, district courts, courts of appeal as well as appeared in arbitration matters.
Dalheim frequently gives presentations and lectures about employment law issues.
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Lavina Daryanani Abbey Legal |
Lavina Daryanani is a solicitor in Abbey Legal Services' specialist employment litigation department. She is experienced in advising employers on a wide range of employment law issues and in defending tribunal claims. Lavina has also provided training on various aspects of employment law to managers and HR professionals.
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Aled Davies Resolve |
Aled Davies is an expert in mediation and resolving conflict in organisations. His company Resolve (GB) Ltd helps many private and public sector organisations to address the most challenging conflicts right up to board level.
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Rob Davies Squire Sanders |
Rob Davies is a professional support lawyer (PSL) in the Labour & Employment team at Squire Sanders. He qualified as a solicitor in 2001 and, prior to becoming a PSL in 2006, covered all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. Rob's PSL role includes preparing client training materials and publications, and writing for external publications.
robert.davies@squiresanders.com
www.squiresanders.com
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Tara Daynes |
Tara Daynes BA(hons) FCIPD BSSP is a qualified HR and training consultant with nearly 20 years' post-graduate experience. She is a fellow member of the CIPD, a qualified employment law paralegal and a registered Investors In People Specialist.
Tara has worked with a variety of industries, including commercial, non-profit and public sector bodies. She specialises in start-up HR functions for small and medium-sized enterprises, including creating and implementing legally compliant staffing policies and procedures and staff handbooks, and providing training for line management and staff on key issues. She is also experienced in helping organisations to achieve Investors In People accredited status through creation and implementation of initiatives and strategies designed to improve the performance of the organisation through its people management practices.
As a business trainer, Tara specialises in people management skills, employment law issues, general business skills and personal effectiveness.
Tara is a regular guest speaker for various professional and networking organisations, contributes to numerous business websites and is often featured in the media as an HR expert, including press commentary and TV and radio interviews.
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Alice Dixon Archon Solicitors |
Alice Dixon qualified as a solicitor with Archon Solicitors in February 2011. She has specialised in all areas of employment law since qualification, acting for both individuals and employers. Alice has particular expertise in advising on and drafting compromise agreements and contracts of employment, and negotiating termination packages for employees.
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Teresa Dolan Eversheds |
Teresa Dolan is a partner in Eversheds' employment team.
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Martin Edwards Weightmans LLP |
Martin Edwards is a partner in the Employment team at national law firm Weightmans LLP.
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Janet Egan |
Janet Egan is a freelance researcher and writer on reward and employment issues. She has participated in several government-commissioned research programmes and has undertaken various consultancy roles and acted as an expert witness in legal cases. She has an MA in industrial relations.
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Tina Elliott |
Tina Elliott has been a solicitor for over 20 years and specialises in employment law. In the last few years Tina has concentrated on advising clients involved in healthcare in both the public and private sector.
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Paul Ellison Macfarlanes |
Paul Ellison is a senior solicitor at Macfarlanes. He joined the firm in 2004 and specialises in advising on UK financial services regulatory matters. Paul advises a broad client base on a wide range of matters, including providing advice on: structuring; the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions; FSA authorisations and variations of permission; the ongoing compliance obligations of FSA authorised firms; and regulatory capital issues. He also assists firms to respond to FSA enquiries.
paul.ellison@macfarlanes.com
www.macfarlanes.com
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Peter Etherington Kate Shepherd Associates |
Peter Etherington is an Employment Law Associate with Kate Shepherd Associates. He is a senior HR professional and has a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management from De Montfort University and a LLM in Employment Law from the University of Leicester.
Peter is experienced in dealing with a wide range of employment and practical HR issues. His experience includes redundancy (collective and smaller scale), departmental restructures, TUPE, negotiating new terms and conditions with staff, management of complex disciplinary and grievance cases, performance management, absence management, tribunal representation, and writing policies and procedures.
Kate Shepherd Associates regularly train and advise a wide array of employers from SMEs through to PLCs, charities and multi-national companies. They also operate at a strategic level, develop and implement policies and sit on the Board of Directors for clients.
peter@kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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Heather Falconer |
Heather Falconer is a freelance writer with over 20 years' experience in the HR and employment law fields. She is former features editor of Personnel Today and former editor of Employers' Law.
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David Faulkner |
David Faulkner is a partner in the employment team at SGH Martineau LLP. He joined the firm in 1996 and has been a partner since 2003.
David has been lead advisor on employment matters for numerous private sector and public sector employers, including several universities, for more than seventeen years. He is particularly highly regarded for his expertise in complex Tribunal litigation, collective and trade union matters, restructurings, transfer of undertakings, and executive and senior/academic appointments and terminations.
The latest Chambers & Partners says that David "impresses with his calm and considered approach to both contentious and non-contentious matters". He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, is a regular provider of employment training and is often called upon as a writer and speaker on employment issues, including on local TV and radio. He was also one of the advisory board members for Sweet & Maxwell's "Discrimination in Employment".
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Michelle Fernando Miller Thomson |
Michelle Fernando is a knowledge management lawyer at Miller Thomson and works with the knowledge management team to implement the firm's Strategic Plan on Knowledge Management. Michelle works with Miller Thomson's Ontario lawyers to solicit, capture, maintain and disseminate the firm's knowledge resources, assist in the development of model documents, provide training for members of the firm and generally support the advancement of knowledge management at Miller Thomson. In addition to her knowledge management responsibilities, Michelle continues to conduct legal research and writing in support of other lawyers at the firm.
Michelle is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. She completed her articles with Miller Thomson and joined the firm after being called to the Ontario Bar in 2003. Prior to taking on her current role, Michelle practiced environmental law for several years.
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Jeremy Fitzgibbon Horsey Lightly |
Jeremy Fitzgibbon qualified as a solicitor in 1988. He has specialised in employment law since 1995 and has headed the London office of solicitors, Horsey Lightly, since joining the firm in 2005. He advises employers and employees, and provides pro-bono advice at a North London law centre.
Jeremy is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
jfitzgibbon@horseylightly.com
www.horseylightly.com
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Alison Frazer |
Alison Frazer has been practising as a barrister since 1999 and works at Queen Square Chambers in Bristol. Before joining Queen Square, she worked as a researcher for IDS, writing articles and case reports.
She is an employment law specialist and acts for employers and employees alike, both through the direct access scheme and by way of instructions from solicitors.
She regularly provides seminars to solicitors and HR professionals on the latest developments in employment law. Alison is also a qualified mediator and has a keen interest in the resolution of workplace and employment conflict.
Alison Frazer - Queen Square Chambers
af@qs-c.co.uk
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Yvonne Frederiksen Norrbom Vinding |
Yvonne Frederiksen advises on all aspects of labour and employment law with a special focus on discrimination law, industrial relations, restrictive covenants, and health and safety law.
Yvonne is a leading expert on discrimination law and the author of several books. She acts exclusively for the employer/management side. Yvonne is Co-Chair of the Ius Laboris International Practice Group on Discrimination and Vice-Chair of the Danish Association of Labour and Employment Lawyers (Ansættelsesadvokater). She is also a member of the expert panel on employment law under the Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society (Advokatsamfundet). She is a frequent speaker at conferences and engages in teaching activities in various contexts, including for the Association of Danish Law Firms (Danske Advokater) and the Danish Centre for Legal Training (JUC). Yvonne was granted the right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court in 2005.
Norrbom Vinding
yf@norrbomvinding.com
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Philip Friend Phil & Friends Ltd |
Dr. Philip Friend has been involved in disability employment issues since 1986 after an extremely successful career in the public sector; he founded Phil & Friends Ltd to promote the issue of disability within the business community.
Dr. Friend has developed and delivered speeches, seminars and workshops on a wide range of topics related to disability and equal opportunities across the world. These have included the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and Equality Act 2010; employing disabled people; delivering high-quality service to disabled customers; and disability and diversity - the business case.
Dr. Friend has collaborated on programs for radio, television and training DVDs. He has written a number of published articles and is currently writing a book that focuses on unleashing disabled talent.
At the grass roots level, Dr. Friend is very active within voluntary organizations that deal with disability issues and was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2001 and an honorary doctorate in 2009 both for service to disability and equal opportunities.
Dr. Friend is vice chair of Disability Rights (UK), an associate of the Employers' Forum on Disability, a Winston Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Diane Gallacher Kiddy & Partners |
Diane Gallacher is a partner at Kiddy & Partners, the leading global firm of business psychologists specialising in assessment, talent management and board development. She works with global organisations to help them identify and develop their high-potential leaders.
At an individual level, Ms. Gallacher's approach enables her to gain a deep understanding of personal motivations and aspirations, and at an organisational level, she helps articulate the future capabilities needed to fulfill the business goals. She is focused on creating motivating development plans that help individuals progress their careers.
Ms. Gallacher also specializes in designing and delivering skills-based workshops for HR professionals, typically in the areas of implementing talent processes and providing career consultancy for internal clients. She has been published in HR journals and websites on subjects including best practice in promotion and career planning. Current and recent clients include organisations in defense, pharmaceuticals, financial services and IT consultancy.
Prior to joining Kiddy, Ms. Gallacher worked for Aon Consulting and Water for Fish. She was a professional violinist for ten years before moving into consultancy.
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Thais Galo Pinheiro Neto Advogados |
Thais Galo is a partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados. She specialises in labour law. Her practice areas are: employment consulting; labour judicial and administrative litigation; collective bargaining; and due diligence. Thais obtained a LL.B. degree from the São Bernardo do Campo School of Law (1996), a specialisation degree in Labour Law from the São Paulo Catholic University (2001) and a LL.M. degree in Labour Law from the São Paulo Catholic University (2008). Further, she attended Harvard Business School. Thais speaks Portuguese and English.
www.pinheironeto.com.br
tgalo@pn.com.br
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Sophie Garner |
Sophie Garner is a barrister practising from St Philips Chambers in Birmingham. She is a specialist employment practitioner whose caseload encompasses the full range of employment and discrimination disputes in the Employment Tribunal, EAT and County or High Court.
In her first ten years of practice Sophie undertook a wide range of commercial and property cases. She has more recent experience of administrative law where it involves employment or related issues in the public sector and third sector disputes. She lectures regularly both in-house and externally.
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Bina Gayadien Abbiss Cadres LLP |
Bina Gayadien is a Senior Consultant at Abbiss Cadres LLP, a multi-disciplinary legal practice dedicated to helping organisations make the most of their people in the UK and internationally.
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Jenifer Gentle Miller Thomson |
Jenifer Gentle is a knowledge management lawyer at Miller Thomson, and works with the knowledge management team to implement the firm's Strategic Plan on Knowledge Management. Jenifer works with Miller Thomson's British Columbia and Alberta lawyers to solicit, capture, maintain and disseminate the firm's knowledge resources, provide training for members of the firm and generally support the advancement of knowledge management at Miller Thomson.
Jenifer is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Law School and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1996. Prior to taking on her current role, Jenifer practiced labour and employment law for several years.
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Eric Gilligan Brodies LLP |
Eric Gilligan is a partner in the employment team at Brodies LLP. Eric is accredited by the Law society of Scotland as a specialist in Employment Law and has over ten years' experience advising in this field. Brodies LLP is the largest full-service corporate and commercial law firm based solely in Scotland.
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Jesùs Gimeno Jones Day |
Jesùs Gimeno advises at Jones Day, Madrid on all aspects of Spanish employment law and social security, assisting national and international clients with employment contracts, remuneration schemes, litigation, secondments and expatriation of employees and key executives, and all matters relating to the relationship between employees and work councils. He also advises companies on the labour details of corporate and financial transactions, negotiation of collective agreements, cross-border restructuring, collective redundancies, outsourcing, and collective litigations. Additional experience involves advising international companies on setting up employee benefit plans, share schemes, profit sharing, and pensions, as well as drafting and implementing employee-related documents such as handbooks and policies.
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David Goldsmith |
David Goldsmith is an independent consultant, specialising in employee relations, shared services and consensus building between organisations.
David had a 30-year career in public sector human resources. He was the originator of the innovative and award-winning London Boroughs Recruitment Partnership, creating a viable shared offering and building the service into a true collaborative venture between 28 public sector organisations.
He has spoken on the subject of shared services and collaboration to a range of organisations across the country. David currently offers consultancy services to a range of public and private sector clients.
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Edward Goodwyn Pinsent Masons |
Edward Goodwyn is a partner in the Pinsent Masons employment group. He works with corporate clients mainly in the construction, engineering and technology sectors, and advises on all areas of employment law.
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Bela Gor Business Disability Forum |
Bela Gor is a solicitor, and is Legal Director at Business Disability Forum. Bela is one of the leading experts on disability discrimination law having taken some of the first cases under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (now replaced by the Equality Act 2010).
www.businessdisabilityforum.org.uk
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James Green Burges Salmon LLP |
James Green is a Senior Associate in the employment team at Burges Salmon LLP. James joined Burges Salmon in October 2009, having trained and qualified in London.
James advises employers on all aspects of employment law, but has particular expertise in the employment aspects of corporate and commercial transactions, including outsourcing, joint ventures and acquisitions and the legal and practical aspects of TUPE. He also advises clients on restructuring and redundancies, contracts of employment, restrictive covenants, day-to-day HR matters including disciplinary and grievance issues and employment tribunal litigation.
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Andrea Gregory People Business |
Andrea Gregory is the founder of People Business, a consultancy offering significant expertise in all aspects of HR and People Development.
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Javier Gutiérrez Jones Day |
Javier Gutiérrez is a solicitor at Jones Day. His practice in Madrid focuses on labour and employment law, particularly in the areas of merger and acquisition transactions, social security administrative proceedings and litigation.
He also advises both national and international clients on employment contracts, including executive contracts, dismissals, collective redundancies and employees' expatriation. In addition, Javier advises on issues relating to privacy and data protection.
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Reto Gygax Poledna Boss Kurer AG |
Reto Gygax is a graduate of the University of Zürich (2005). Mr Gygax was admitted to the Zürich Bar and the Swiss Bar in 2010. From 1997 to 2008 he advised a globally active Swiss company as a consultant. In 2008, he joined Poledna Boss Kurer AG law firm.
He specialises in corporate law, commercial law, M&A/transactions and litigation/arbitration.
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Jacinta Hargadon |
Jacinta Hargadon is an independent Assessor and Coach. She has over 16 years' experience of assisting individuals and organisations with their development and assessment decisions for recruitment and development.
She has worked with all levels of client from the private and public sectors, for a huge and diverse range of companies, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, transport, media, the arts and housing. She has UK as well as Asia Pacific region work experience.
She holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour, as well as the British Psychological Society (BPS), and European Federation of Psychologists' Association (EFPA), European Test User Certificate, Level 2, Work & Organisational Assessment, (formerly BPS Level A & B).
A qualified and accredited Coach, she has extensive expertise in the design and delivery of coaching and assessment programmes. She is qualified and experienced in a large range of psychometric assessments, including ability tests, ;personality questionnaires, leadership development, 360°, and emotional intelligence.
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Tony Hatton-Gore |
Tony Hatton-Gore is a reward and HR practitioner. He has completed interim and consultancy assignments for clients in the private, public and third sectors with his consultancy Rewardhr Ltd. His achievements are in making organisations work better by aligning reward, human resources, performance management, international mobility and systems strategies with overall business strategy. He regularly speaks at conferences and writes on reward issues.
He has been reward director at two global professional services firms (Arup and Atkins) and carried out senior reward, human resources and technology roles in the financial sector (Schroder Salomon Smith Barney/Citibank, London Stock Exchange, Kleinwort Benson).
He is a Fellow of the CIPD.
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Alex Heaslip Miller Thomson |
Alex Heaslip is an Associate in the Toronto office of Miller Thomson's Labour and Employment Group. He joined Miller Thomson's summer programme in 2010 and he completed his articles at the firm.
Alex is building a practice focused on representing management in its dealings with both unionised and non-unionised employees. He has experience working on cases relating to employee discipline and dismissal, human rights, collective bargaining and pension and benefits. He has also served on Miller Thomson's NHL salary arbitration team.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa, Alex completed his law studies at the University of Calgary. While at Calgary Law, he worked as a legal summer student at the Calgary Board of Education. On campus, he volunteered for a variety of student-based legal organisations, including Calgary's Student Legal Assistance and the Pro Bono Students Canada. In 2011, he served on the executive of the University of Calgary Sports Law Club.
Alex also competed in a variety of mooting and public speaking competitions, including the University of Calgary Blackstone Debate. In the latter, he was a semi-finalist in the 2010 competition.
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Suzanne Higginson Collyer Bristow LLP |
Suzanne Higginson is a solicitor at Collyer Bristow LLP. Suzanne forms part of the Defamation and Reputation Management Team, providing specialist advice to both individuals and corporations on defamation, privacy and harassment, particularly in the context of online media.
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Lin Hinson HR Solicitor |
Lin Hinson is a practising solicitor and HR consultant at HR Solicitor. She represents companies and advises on employment law and HR matters.
www.hrsolicitor.co.uk
lin@hrsolicitor.co.uk
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Judith Hogarth Kate Shepherd Associates |
Judith Hogarth is an associate at Kate Shepherd Associates. Judith has more than 25 years' experience in employee relations and employment law in both the public and private sectors. Judith holds a Masters specialising in industrial relations from the University of Westminster and is also a Pensions Trustee.
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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Sarah Hogg Fasken Martineau LLP |
Sarah Hogg is an associate at Fasken Martineau and is a member of the firm's employment practice group.
Sarah is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and she joined Fasken Martineau in 2011 from a leading New Zealand law firm, Simpson Grierson.
Sarah has experience advising on all areas of employment law in the UK and New Zealand, both contentious and non-contentious, including employment contracts and policies, disciplinary processes and dismissals, restrictive covenants, restructurings and redundancy situations, employee disputes and grievance claims.
Sarah has advised clients across a range of industry sectors and has represented clients at the employment tribunal on matters ranging from dismissals to union disputes.
shogg@fasken.com
www.fasken.com
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Chris Holme Clyde & Co |
Chris Holme is a partner in the employment law team at Clyde and Co. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, the Association of Partnership Practitioners and the City of London Solicitors Company.
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John Hosken |
John Hosken is an internal communications consultant with 25 years' experience in financial services, healthcare and local and central government. His areas of expertise include employee consultation, communications strategies at times of change and transformation, and delivery of complex messages across the full range of communications channels.
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Julian Hoskins Bevan Brittan LLP |
Julian Hoskins is the head of Bevan Brittan's employment law department. He practised at the Bar for eight years on qualifying in 1987 before joining Bevan Brittan (Bevan Ashford as it was then) in 1995. Julian specialises in advising HR professionals on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues including reorganisation, executive termination, internal policies and procedures, sex, disability and race discrimination, unfair dismissal, transfer of undertakings and the implementation of new legislation.
Julian has acted as advocate in a number of reported cases in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and appears regularly in tribunals throughout the country. Julian also has a great deal of experience of lecturing on employment issues both in-house and externally to clients and is recommended as a leader in the field of employment law in Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession.
julian.hoskins@bevanbrittan.com
www.bevanbrittan.com
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Gry Steen Hvidsten Arntzen de Besche |
Gry Steen Hvidsten works within the employment law group of Arntzen de Besche where she advises on all aspects of employment law. She is experienced on privacy and personal data, for instance access to e-mail, transfer of personal data to other countries etc.
Gry Steen Hvidsten has a long-lasting experience from The Ministry of Justice, the Legislation department. Hvidsten is an external examiner at the Law faculty of the University of Oslo.
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Christos A Ioannou |
Christos A Ioannou is an economist with expertise in human resources and employment relations, and has served as a mediator and arbitrator in Greece since 1992. He has acted as adviser, consultant and director for a variety of government and private sector organisations, national and international. He holds master's and PhD degrees in economics and industrial relations from the London School of Economics.
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Victor Ing Miller Thomson |
Victor Ing recently joined Miller Thomson as an associate in the Litigation group in the Vancouver office. He completed his articles with Miller Thomson and has remained with the firm upon his call to the bar in 2011. Victor is building a broad practice in the areas of civil litigation and immigration law.
Victor obtained his law degree from the University of British Columbia, where he was an active member of Pro Bono Students Canada and the Law Students' Legal Advice Program.
Prior to completing law school, Victor participated in exchange programmes to universities in Hong Kong and Japan. In support of his studies, he previously worked with the RCMP and, most recently, with Transport Canada in relation to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Outside of work, Victor is active in the community, having volunteered with the South Granville Seniors Centre and BC Crisis Centre, among others.
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Barry Jameson Horsey Lightly |
Barry Jameson has been an employment law specialist since 1980. He has been a key part of the employment law team in London and Newbury-based solicitors, Horsey Lightly since 2004. In 2000 he set up the employment law department of his previous London firm (now) Cumberland Ellis and expanded it over the following four years. He conducts seminars for clients on a wide range of topics.
Barry is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
BJameson@horseylightly.com
www.horseylightly.com
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Kalina Jaroslawska |
Kalina Jaroslawska is a licensed legal advisor based in northern Poland. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Gdansk, Department of Law and Administration. In the same year she completed a course of the English and European Union law organized by Cambridge University in co-operation with the University of Gdansk. She started her practice as a legal advisor in 2008, when she was admitted to the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisors in Gdansk. In the meantime she had served for seven years as an associate at a major law firm in Poland, a subsidiary of a US based law firm.
She specialises in labour law as well as civil and commercial law; her professional interests also cover issues related to tax law and administrative law. She speaks English and German. She keeps an English-language blog devoted to Polish labour law issues: Polish Labour Law Blog.
http://polishemploymentlaw.com
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Rebecca Johns Fasken Martineau LLP |
Rebecca Johns is an associate in Fasken Martineau LLP (London) and is a member of the Employment practice group.
Rebecca advises on all aspects of employment law. She has extensive experience of advising multi-national corporates in a range of industry sectors and also financial services and insurance clients in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
Rebecca has substantial experience of advising clients on individual and collective redundancy situations, dismissals, and senior executive terminations, both nationally and internationally. Rebecca advises businesses involved in contentious matters and employee disputes, including the conduct of disciplinary and grievance procedures, and defending claims brought in the Employment Tribunal and the High Court.
Rebecca has considerable employment tribunal advocacy experience, having completed a six-month secondment as a tribunal advocate.
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Neil Johnston Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP |
Neil Johnston is a senior associate in Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP's Employment Department. Neil has a broad experience of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. He advises both private and public sector employers and also has experience acting for and advising individuals. His experience includes advising on High Court bonus claims, FSA and injunctive matters. Neil is also experienced in TUPE matters, collective redundancies and drafting employment contracts, handbooks and policies. His tribunal workload covers unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and all aspects of discrimination law. Neil has written articles for publications such as Personnel Today.
neil.johnston@ffw.com
www.ffw.com
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David Jones |
David Jones is a freelance consultant on both UK and Irish employment law. He has over 20 years' experience of writing, training and lecturing on employment law and his background is mainly from within the voluntary sector. He has an LLM in employment law and industrial relations.
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Tina Jones |
Tina Jones is the coordinator for Derbyshire Action on Smoking.
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Robbert van het Kaar University of Amsterdam |
Robbert H. van het Kaar is assistant professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam. He publishes and teaches in the fields of labour law and company law, and industrial relations. His background is both in law and economics.
He is an independent member of the Codetermination Commission of the Dutch Social and Economic Council (SER) and a substitute judge at the SER-committee on mergers and takeovers. Van het Kaar is also a supervisory board member in two companies (based in India and the USA).
Dr. Robbert H. van het Kaar - University of Amsterdam
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Teea Kemppinen Bird & Bird Attorneys Ltd |
Teea Kemppinen is a senior associate based in the Helsinki office of Bird & Bird Attorneys Ltd. She specialises in employment and labour law, dispute resolution and environmental law.
Teea is a member of the Finnish Employment group and she focuses on all aspects of employment and public office relations. She advises on a broad range of employment law issues, including employment contractual issues, negotiation and termination of contracts, collective agreements and trade union matters, co-operation procedures and transactions. Further, she has experience in litigation both in regular and administrative courts.
Teea also specialises in environmental law. She is a member of the Environmental Law Group of Experts of the Finnish Bar Association, and she has worked at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.
Teea was educated at the University of Turku (LLM) and is a member of the Finnish Bar Association.
teea.kemppinen@twobirds.com
www.twobirds.com/en
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Richard Kenyon Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP |
Richard Kenyon is a partner and deputy head of the Employment Department at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. He has specialised in employment and equal treatment issues since qualification in 1992. Richard advises on all aspects of employment law, including large-scale redundancy programmes, TUPE transfers and roll-outs of contractual changes across workforces, unfair dismissal and discrimination issues.
richard.kenyon@ffw.com
www.ffw.com
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Sarah Lamont Bevan Brittan LLP |
Sarah Lamont is a partner in Bevan Brittan's employment law department. She advises a wide range of predominantly employer clients, including national and multinational companies, on all aspects of employment law such as contractual issues, all types of discrimination claims, outsourcing, facilities management, reorganisations, redundancies, all types of discrimination claims, TUPE, PFI and negotiation of boardroom disputes.
She has also handled a number of high-multiple and high-profile tribunal cases. Sarah has a great deal of experience of speaking at conferences and seminars and co-authors four employment texts including a specialist guide to PFI. She is recognised by both Chambers Directory and the Legal 500 as a leader in the field of employment law.
sarah.lamont@bevanbrittan.com
www.bevanbrittan.com
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David Lewis Middlesex University |
David Lewis is professor of employment law at Middlesex University. David has been researching the subject of employment protection for whistleblowers since 1994 and is published internationally. He has written textbooks on whistleblowing and has contributed to and edited three specialist works on the subject. David is convenor of the International Whistleblowing Research Network.
d.b.lewis@mdx.ac.uk
David Lewis - Middlesex University
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Kjerstin Falkum Løvik Arntzen de Besche |
Kjerstin Falkum Løvik is a solicitor and senior lawyer at Arntzen de Besche Advokatfirma AS. She is specialized in employment law and has also a broad corporate law experience. She has experience in all aspects of employment law having worked in this field since 2001. She was admitted to the bar in 2004 and is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association.
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Lynda Macdonald |
Lynda A. C. Macdonald has worked for more than 20 years as a self-employed, freelance management trainer, advisor and writer specializing in employment law.
She regularly designs and conducts training courses on all aspects of employment law for a range of managers and supervisors in all sectors of industry.
Prior to setting up her own business in employment law and management training/consultancy, she worked as an HR manager in the oil industry for over ten years. She is also appointed as a panel member of the employment tribunal service in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she lives.
Ms. Macdonald is a university graduate in language and a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Additionally, she has an LLM degree in employment law and practice.
Ms. Macdonald has, to date, written sixteen books on various aspects of employment law, all of which have been published by major national publishers. She has co-authored several other books, and currently contributes extensively to various HR and employment law hard-copy and online products.
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Annabel Mace Squire Sanders |
Annabel Mace is a solicitor and head of the UK Business Immigration team at Squire Sanders. She has experience in all aspects of business immigration having worked in this field since before 2000. Her particular expertise is the overlap between immigration and employment law.
Annabel is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.
annabel.mace@squiresanders.com
www.squiresanders.com
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Ravinder Mahal Wedlake Bell |
Ravinder Mahal is an employment law specialist at Wedlake Bell.
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Erik Marshall Miller Thomson |
Erik Marshall is a member of Miller Thomson's Labour and Employment Group in Toronto. Erik represents employers concerning a variety of labour and employment issues including employment standards, wrongful dismissals, grievance arbitrations, labour board proceedings, human rights, occupational health and safety, workplace safety and insurance, as well as labour and employment issues that arise in corporate transactions. Erik has represented clients in collective bargaining and has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Ontario Labour Relations Board, Canada Industrial Relations Board and Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
Erik obtained his B.A. (Hons.) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2001 and his LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 2007 where he received the Catherine Helen MacLean Prize in Labour Law. Prior to joining Miller Thomson for his articles, Erik summered with a management side labour and employment law firm in Toronto. During his articles, Erik was seconded to the Ontario Labour Relations Board, where he provided research assistance on various labour and employment issues to the Board's adjudicators and solicitors.
Erik regularly contributes as a writer to Miller Thomson's communiqué series on current labour and employment topics and his writing has been featured in Law Times, Canadian Employment Law Today,Canadian Lawyer: INHOUSE and Lexology: Association of Corporate Counsel. He co-authored the Employment Law: Wrongful Dismissal chapter included in Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Canadian Precedents of Pleadings publication with Stuart Rudner, published by Carswell, a division of Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. He also regularly participates as a speaker at internal and external labour and employment seminars and conferences, and has spoken as part of the employment law programme put on by Osgoode Professional Development. Erik is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2008.
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Andrew Marston Andrew Marston Consulting Ltd |
Andrew Marston worked for Greater Manchester Police as HR Director (from 1995 to 2005) and Assistant Chief Officer HR (from 2005 to 2008). He runs Andrew Marston Consulting Ltd, specialising in coaching and mentoring, leadership and organisational development, dispute resolution and strategic HR support.
andrew.marston1@btinternet.com
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Susan Mayne AJS Employment Intelligence |
Susan Mayne is an experienced employment lawyer who worked in the City for over 20 years, latterly at CMS Cameron McKenna. She is now a partner in AJS Employment Intelligence, which offers freelance tailored PSL services to law firms and in-house legal departments.
Susan has written extensively and is the editor of "Cross Border Transfers and Redundancies" (Tottel, 2004) and "Employment Law in Europe" (Butterworths, 2001). She has also contributed to several other books and publications.
ajsemploymentintelligence.co.uk
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Fiona McDermott Magrath LLP |
Fiona McDermott is a solicitor dealing with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, acting on behalf of both employers and employees.
Fiona has a vast array of litigation experience, handling numerous cases including claims brought under TUPE; for unfair dismissal; unlawful deduction from wages; discrimination; and equal pay. Fiona has also dealt with cases before the High Court and Central Arbitration Committee.
In addition, Fiona advises upon a range of non-contentious issues, including grievances; compromise agreements; contracts; policies; handbooks and disciplinary issues and procedures.
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Neil McInnes Pinsent Masons |
Neil McInnes is a senior associate, barrister in Pinsent Masons' corporate crime and internal investigations team. He specialises in all aspects of business crime and serious fraud, including advisory work for companies in connection with the Bribery Act 2010 and their corruption risks.
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Tina McKevitt |
Tina McKevitt is a freelance writer on employment law.
Following qualification as a solicitor she worked in private practice in London and Sheffield before joining the National Union of Teachers as regional solicitor for the Yorkshire/Midlands region. She has specialised in discrimination and employment law since working as Principal Legal Officer at the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1993 until 1997.
Tina has lectured at undergraduate level at Sheffield University and Manchester University, and on the Legal Practice Course at Sheffield University.
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John McMullen Wrigleys Solicitors LLP |
John McMullen is visiting professor of Durham University and is the director of employment law at Wrigleys Solicitors. As well as lecturing widely, John writes on the subject and his publications include the leading work on the transfer of undertakings, Business Transfers and Employee Rights. He has also contributed regularly to legal journals such as Industrial Law Journal and Cambridge Law Journal, and to human resources journals such as Personnel Today and People Management.
John is an internationally recognised expert on the transfer of undertakings and the Acquired Rights Directive, and has been involved in some of the largest transactions and cases involving the transfer of undertakings in recent years. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. In May 2004 John was appointed as a member of the Council of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
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Marc Meryon Eversheds LLP |
Marc Meryon is a partner and Head of Industrial Relations at Eversheds. Marc qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and has specialised in employment law and industrial relations since 1994. Marc is recognised in Chambers and the Legal 500 as an expert in industrial relations and frequently comments on this area in both broadcast and print media, including BBC News, the Today Programme, Sky News, CNBC, the Financial Times and the Guardian.
Marc acts for a large number of household names in the manufacturing, postal, transport, healthcare, charities, professional and financial services sectors advising on effective organisational change in a unionised environment, as well as managing and resolving industrial disputes.
Marc acted for the employers in the Court of Appeal decisions on strike ballots in Metrobus v Unite; Serco v RMT; and London Midland v ASLEF.
marcmeryon@eversheds.com
www.eversheds.com
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Sue Milsome |
Sue Milsome is a freelance researcher and editor who has been writing about employment good practice since 1981. She has conducted research on equal pay for the Equality Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission), the CIPD, the Work Foundation and several local authorities.
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Stefanie M. Monge Poledna Boss Kurer AG |
Stefanie M. Monge is a graduate of the University of Zürich (1998) and the University of Michigan Law School with a Master of Laws Degree (2004). Mrs Monge was admitted to the Zürich bar in 2001 and the New York bar in 2005. From 1998 until 1999 she served as a judicial clerk with the District Court of Uster (ZH). She then was a legal trainee and associate with a Zürich law firm. In 2004 she joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Chicago, as a law clerk. From 2005 to 2008 she was part of the corporate and tax department of a well-known law firm in Zürich. On 1 July 2008, she joined Poledna Boss Kurer AG law firm.
She specialises in domestic and international tax law, commercial law and labour law. She practices in German, English and Spanish.
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Fiona Morden |
Fiona Morden is a consultant specializing in the areas of people and culture change, and is passionate about making a positive difference through her work. She has more than 25 years experience working with both the private and public sectors in all aspects of organizational change and HR.
Ms. Morden specialises in international diversity and inclusion, to leverage the potential of diverse employees, and to maximize commercial opportunities from diverse customer markets. Employee relations, training and development, harassment and bullying prevention and change management are all areas where her extensive expertise comes to the fore.
Ms. Morden gained extensive commercial and operational experience throughout her global corporate career before establishing her own business. Passionate about business improvement, she supports her clients to inspire their people via cultural change interventions to increase productivity and effectiveness.
Ms. Morden works with boards and senior executives to implement positive changes to employee engagement and service delivery as well as to deliver corporate communication strategies. She is known for "getting things done" - on time, on budget and to exceptional standards.
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Liz Morris Working Families |
Liz Morris is an experienced HR professional and consultant. Her career spans many industry sectors, focusing on evidence-based and practical workplace interventions and employee engagement.
Liz has designed and delivered successful change programmes for global and small and medium-sized enterprises. She has coached individuals and small groups including CEOs, line managers, parents and carers.
Liz is director of consultancy and training at Working Families. Working Families works with employers to create profitable family-friendly and flexible organisations, supports over 1000 working families each month, and leads internationally-renowned research.
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Angela Mulvie Corporate Elevation UK |
Angela Mulvie is an experienced executive coach and management consultant, having run her own HR consultancy practice for the past 20 years, following a career in human resource management and higher education.
Her early experience was in personnel and training management in the manufacturing and health sectors, followed by a number of years in higher education in the UK university sector, teaching and researching in human resource management. She specialises in Performance Management and Senior Executive Development, including executive coaching, and has undertaken assignments with both large corporates and SMEs, including the design of performance management systems, and the training of managers in their implementation. She also works extensively in the area of Investors in People, the international people management and development standard.
http://corporatelevation.co.uk
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Kalpana Murthy |
Kalpana Murthy is a freelance legal consultant and advises employers on all aspects of employment law. She also prepares employment contracts, policies and handbooks as well as writing articles and guidance documents for clients and for publication. She has a number of years' experience in employment law, having worked in this field since qualifying as a solicitor in 2001. From 2004 to 2009 she worked for city law firm Kemp Little LLP as an employment solicitor.
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Lesley Myland |
Lesley Myland has over 30 years' experience in management, human resources and employment law. She has been established for over 20 years as the principal of her own consultancy, specialising in advising line managers on human resources and legal issues. Lesley sits regularly as an employment tribunal lay member.
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Janice Nairns |
Janice Nairns is a freelance writer and academic specialising in employment law.
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Darren Newman In-Company Training Services Ltd |
Darren Newman is an employment lawyer with over 20 years' experience. He qualified at the Bar in 1990, and has extensive experience of representing both employers and employees in the employment tribunal. Darren is a Director of In-Company Training Services Ltd and has provided employment law training to major government departments, commercial organisations, local authorities and public bodies.
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Sue Nickson Squire Sanders |
Sue Nickson is co-chief operating officer of Squire Sanders. She is co-author of a series of handbooks on employment law.
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Caroline Noblet Squire Sanders |
Caroline Noblet is Joint Global Leader of Labour and Employment at global law firm Squire Sanders.
She advises international clients on cross-border employment issues across Europe and beyond, namely on rationalisation and restructuring programmes (dealing with works councils, trade unions, and the application of the Acquired Rights Directive (2001/23/EC) and other relevant provisions), contract and policy rollouts and the employment aspects of privacy and data protection and mergers and acquisitions.
Caroline also works with Squire Sanders' litigation team in the enforcement and defence of garden leave, confidentiality and restrictive covenants. She also lecturers and writes on various employment-related topics.
caroline.noblet@ssd.com
www.squiresanders.com
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Andrea Oates |
Andrea Oates is a freelance journalist and researcher specialising in health and safety and other workplace and employment relations issues. She regularly contributes features to health and safety journals and writes and updates health and safety law and practice chapters in publications and online services. She is the author of a book on corporate manslaughter.
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Laurence O'Neill |
Laurence O'Neill is an Associate Solicitor with Legal 500 firm Morrisons Solicitors. Morrisons has been providing legal services to businesses for almost 300 years and is one of Surrey's leading firms, with offices in Redhill, Woking, Wimbledon, Camberley and Twickenham. Its employment team is rated in the latest Chambers & Partners directory which praises the team for its "robust economical advice" given "in a friendly but professional manner." Laurence trained with the leading regional firm, IBB Solicitors, and has worked for the national firm SGH Martineau LLP.
He has provided advice on employment matters to large organisations such as Hertz, Hasbro and Renault. He has also acted for high net worth individuals, trade unions and their members. In addition to his advisory work he also has advocacy experience both in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Laurence is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, speaks regularly on employment law topics and writes for a number of leading HR Publications including Personnel Today.
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Massimo Pallini |
Massimo Pallini is associate professor in labour law at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Milan, where he teaches labour law, European and comparative labour law and public employment law. He is also: a member of the Department of Labour Studies and of the Inter-department Research Centre for Work, Training and Welfare; a lecturer and committee member for the PhD programme in labour studies at the Graduate School; an editor of Rivista giuridica del lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale, Rivista italiana del lavoro and Rivista del diritto della sicurezza sociale; and a lawyer at the Rome and Milan bars, specialising in employment and commercial law judicial cases.
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Julian Parry Lewis Silkin |
Julian Parry is a senior associate at Lewis Silkin.
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Claire Perry |
Claire Perry is a solicitor specialising in employment law, policy and practice.
After five years with city firm Ince & Co she moved to the BBC where, from 2002 she was their Legal Advisor for HR and from 2007 Head of Employment Policy and Freelance Legal Affairs. Since 2010 she has been providing her services on a consultancy basis to a number of large employers and writes and presents on topical employment law issues.
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Andrew Peters Squire Sanders |
Andrew Peters is an associate at the London employment department of Squire Sanders .
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Sara Phillips Grant Dawe LLP |
Sara Phillips is a consultant solicitor at Grant Dawe LLP in London.
Sara has specialised in employment law since 2005 and acts for both employers and employees on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.
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Jo Plumstead |
Jo Plumstead is a freelance writer on employment law and a consultant solicitor, specialising in employment issues, with Setfords. Since qualifying as a solicitor over 20 years ago she has practised in all areas of employment law, taught employment law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and worked as a legal writer and editor.
Jo is a member of the Industrial Law Society, the Employment Lawyers Association and PEN group for Professional Support Lawyers.
jplumstead@setfords.co.uk
Jo Plumstead is on Linked In
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Lisa Poole Kate Shepherd Associates |
Lisa Poole is formerly the head of HR at Jessops PLC and is now a consultant at Kate Shepherd Associates.
Ms. Poole specializes in mediation and HR, working proactively with a variety of clients.
She is also involved in the design and implementation of new policies and procedures, advising on a range of strategic issues relating to restructuring and reorganizing businesses as well as day-to-day HR support for clients.
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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David Pratt RSK Environment Health & Safety Ltd |
David Pratt is a director of RSK Environment Health & Safety Ltd and a practising health and safety consultant. He is a chartered civil engineer and has a broad and practical background in the construction industry, from which he successfully built his own company, specialising in safety, health and environmental consultancy, risk/project management and training.
RSK STATS Environment, Health and Safety
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Kate Pritchard ORC International |
Kate Pritchard is director of employee research at ORC International, a market research company specialising in employee engagement surveys and consultancy.
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Shelagh Prosser |
Shelagh Prosser is an established diversity practitioner with more than 20 years' experience of taking action to address discrimination and promote inclusion.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, she held senior diversity posts in the civil service, the BBC and the transport industry. As a consultant she has worked with public, private and voluntary and community sectors.
Ms. Prosser has worked extensively on strategies and practical actions to embed equality and diversity into business development, employment practice and service delivery. Her experience includes policy development, equality audits, research, analysis, writing for publication and stakeholder engagement.
She is chair of the Westminster Equalities Partnership, an initiative that brings together the public and voluntary sectors in the City of Westminster; an assessor for WEConnect Europe, a supplier diversity initiative; and regularly chairs equality symposiums organised by the Public Policy Exchange.
Ms. Prosser is chair of Women and Manual Trades (a national charity supporting women working in construction industry), a director of Border Crossings, an intercultural arts organization, and a director of Tindlemanor, a building for women's organizations.
From 2009 to 2011 she was vice-chair of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners. She is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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Neil Rankin |
Neil Rankin has edited a wide range of journal publications specializing in absence and recruitment issues. He holds an MA in industrial relations from Warwick University, and before becoming an editor worked as a trade union researcher and trainer.
At IRS he was editor of the Employee Development Bulletin and the quarterly journal Competencies, and was responsible for IRS Employment Review's coverage of recruitment, retention and absence issues.
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Hayley Reid Stephenson Harwood |
Hayley Reid is an associate in the Stephenson Harwood employment team. She advises on all aspects of employment law.
She advises a range of employers on employment matters such as family friendly rights and handling disciplinaries and grievances. She also has experience in negotiating service agreements and exit agreements both for individuals and employers. She has worked with employers in various sectors updating contracts of employment and undertaking handbook reviews.
Hayley has experience in identifying employee issues for acquirers of target businesses, as part of the due diligence process. She has also supported employers in large scale redundancy exercises.
During her time at Stephenson Harwood, Hayley completed a four month secondment to KPMG, where she worked closely with their in-house legal team on employment matters.
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Akua Reindorf |
Akua Reindorf is a barrister practising from Cloisters Chambers. Her employment practice covers the whole range of the law from unfair dismissal to race, sex and disability discrimination and TUPE. She has undertaken pro bono training for racial equality councils and unions in tribunal. Akua undertakes advisory work in the employment field, and appears regularly in the employment tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal for both applicants and respondents.
Her cases of note include Alabaster v Woolwich Building Society (Court of Appeal: maternity rights/jurisdiction of tribunal to hear "stand-alone" European law claims), and Ahsan v Labour Party (race discrimination in selection of local councillors).
Akua Reindorf - Cloisters Chamber
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David Rice Miller Thomson |
David Rice is Associate Counsel in the Labour and Employment Group of Miller Thomson. David's practice consists of counsel work with the primary focus on labour and employment law. He also has extensive experience in construction and product liability cases.
David has represented employers before the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the BC Labour Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal and the BC Workers' Compensation Board and in labour arbitrations and mediations. He has acted as spokesman for employers in collective agreement negotiations and has represented both employers and employees in all forms of employment law cases in the Supreme Court of BC and the BC Court of Appeal.
David has extensive ADR and mediation training through the Justice Institute of B.C., the BC International Commercial Arbitration Center and the Continuing Legal Education Society. He has served as a lecturer on mediation for PLTC students and for CLE courses. He has acted as mediator in employment, commercial and personal injury disputes.
David has represented Crown corporations in the electricity and insurance industries, and has acted as counsel for the BC Utilities Commission on numerous hearings involving natural gas and electricity utilities.
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Ben Roberts Abbey Legal |
Ben Roberts is a solicitor at Abbey Legal. He advises a wide range of healthcare, education and aviation clients on employment and related issues and has provided training for solicitors and HR professionals.
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Ivan Robertson Robertson Cooper |
Ivan Robertson is co-founder of Robertson Cooper, having set up the business with Cary Cooper in 1999. Robertson Cooper specializes in stress management, employee well-being, engagement and resilience.
The company was built on the expertise of its founders, so its tools are grounded in a scientific understanding of psychological well-being at work and its relationship to performance. Robertson Cooper helps organisations to realise the benefits of engaging leaders and having resilient teams and energised employees, while building internal capability to ensure sustainable improvements.
Mr. Robertson is professor of organisational psychology at Leeds Business School and emeritus professor at the University of Manchester. He has published over 35 books around the subject of occupational psychology and is an internationally recognised industry expert in the areas of stress, well-being, employee engagement, personnel selection, assessment and leadership development.
Throughout his career, Mr. Robertson has advised at the highest levels in the public and private sectors, both in the UK and internationally.
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Nick Robertson Mayer Brown |
Nick Robertson is a partner and head of employment in London at global law firm Mayer Brown.
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Hannah Roche MBM Commercial Solicitors |
Hannah Roche is head of employment at MBM Commercial Solicitors, based in Edinburgh. An employment law specialist with many years of experience, she advises on all aspects of employment law from unfair dismissal to contracts of employment and unlawful discrimination. Hannah acts for employers and employees alike and represents clients at the Employment Tribunal and in non-contentious matters. She regularly writes and presents training to employer clients on topical aspects of employment law, and speaks at seminars and conferences.
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Kath Sadler-Smith Osborne Clarke |
Kath Sadler-Smith is a training and know-how lawyer with Osborne Clarke specialising in employment and benefits law. She has advised on both contentious and non-contentious issues including the employment aspects of corporate transactions, senior executive appointments and dismissals, restraint of trade, redundancies and business reorganisations, outsourcing and business transfers, discrimination issues and the implications of engaging contractors and atypical workers. She regularly delivers bespoke training and updates to clients.
Kath spent two and a half years on secondment to a blue-chip multinational software company, where she was responsible for: advising on a broad spectrum of HR issues; training HR and management; streamlining HR documentation and processes; and assisting US management in dealing with sensitive UK employee issues.
Kath joined Osborne Clarke in May 2000 having previously worked at Baker & McKenzie.
kath.sadler-smith@osborneclarke.com
www.osborneclarke.com
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Natasha Smith Miller Thomson |
Natasha Smith joined Miller Thomson after completing the JD Program at the University of Windsor. Prior to commencing her law degree, Natasha received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Calgary.
While a student, Natasha was actively involved in the Windsor Law community. Throughout the years, she volunteered at Community Legal Aid as a Caseworker, where she provided legal assistance to students and lower income members of the community. She also served as a Junior Editorial Assistant for the University of Windsor's Law Review. In addition, Natasha volunteered with the University of Windsor's External Outreach Committee, serving meals at the local mission and providing computer assistance to the elderly at the Centre for Seniors. Natasha served as a project supervisor for Pro Bono Students Canada where she headed up a team of students in providing not-for-profit entities with assistance in their corporate governance needs, including incorporations and the drafting of by-laws.
Natasha has participated in several moots, including the University of Windsor's Zuber moot.
Natasha has a keen interest in corporate law and gained practical experience working throughout her undergraduate studies as a legal assistant at a boutique law firm in Calgary, Alberta.
In her spare time, Natasha participates in intramural basketball and enjoys dance, yoga and running.
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Eva Scheifele Poledna Boss Kurer AG |
Eva Scheifele, born 1984, joined Poledna Boss Kurer AG as a junior associate after graduating from the University of Zurich Law School in 2010 (Master of Law). Ms Scheifele's career started as an art underwriter and legal consultant at the leading art insurance company, AXA ART Versicherung AG in Zurich. With a view to potentially specialising in the field of art law in the future, she started a further education programme at the University of Zurich in 2011 (Executive Master in Art Market Studies).
Languages: German and French native speaker, English and Italian. Publications: Einlagerung und Transporte von Kunst- und Kulturgütern aus Sicht eines Kunstversicherers, in: Mosimann Peter/Schönenberger Beat (Publ. ), Kunst & Recht, Referate zur gleichnamigen Veranstaltung der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Basel vom 17. Juni 2011, Bern; Tagungsbericht zur Veranstaltung "Kunst & Recht" an der Universität Basel in Kunst und Recht: Journal für Kunstrecht, Urheberrecht und Kulturpolitik (KUR), 3/4 2012, Berlin.
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Mónica Schiaffino Littler De la Vega y Conde |
Mónica Schiaffino is a lawyer with Littler De la Vega y Conde. She has been practising law for over a decade and is an experienced litigator. Mónica has extensive experience with implementation of pension plans; coordinating and implementing labour structures dealing with expatriates; employee and business transfers; internal labour regulations and compliance; employee handbooks, policies and employment contracts; incentive plans; confidentiality agreements; conducting due diligence; and labour restructuring and collective bargaining agreements.
Mónica frequently speaks at labour law conferences. She has participated as coordinator in the preparation of several handbooks regarding individual and collective dismissals in the Americas for Ius Laboris and was the Americas Regional Coordinator of the Alliance for almost two years.
Prior to joining Littler De la Vega y Conde, she was a consultant and litigator at two other major law firms in Mexico.
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Chris Schofield |
Chris Schofield is editor of Butterworths Local Authority Employment: Law, Practice and Procedure and sits as a member of employment tribunals. He is a freelance consultant with authorities at all tiers of local government with an emphasis on organisational and pay reviews, managing restructurings and working with members on issues affecting senior managers.
After graduating from Oxford University in 1968, Chris joined Hampshire County Council, where he held a variety of posts in personnel before moving in 1979 to West Sussex County Council as Assistant County Personnel Officer and, later, Deputy. In 1985 he was appointed County Personnel Officer of Devon County Council, a job he held until after local government reorganisation in 1998. He was particularly concerned with the importance of people management to the achievement of the council's overall objectives, and with performance management, remuneration policy and managing changes to the organisation.
For seven years Chris chaired Socpo's pay and employee relations committee, and its predecessor bodies, and was joint author of Socpo publications on "implementing single status" and "approaches to pay".
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Mandie Sewa Turpin & Miller LLP |
Mandie Sewa is a solicitor at Turpin & Miller LLP who specialises in immigration law. She has worked for large charities, city law firms, and in-house legal departments. She has extensive experience of providing training for large corporations, community groups and the Immigration Lawyers Practitioners Association.
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Katherine Shaw Lewis Silkin |
Katherine Shaw is an associate in the Lewis Silkin employment, reward and immigration department, advising employers and employees on a wide range of employment issues. She provides day-to-day advice on: managing sickness absence, disciplinaries and grievances, recruitment and redundancies and other types of dismissals. Katherine also advises on, and drafts, employment documentation such as policies, employment contracts, secondment agreements, consultancy agreements and compromise agreements. She has experience of High Court litigation and her contentious work includes bringing and defending employment tribunal claims and assisting in settlement negotiations.
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Catherine Shepherd Osborne Clarke |
Catherine Shepherd is a training and know-how lawyer with Osborne Clarke, specialising in employment and benefits law. She advises public and private companies on a range of employment and work-related matters, including day-to-day workplace problems, wrongful and unfair dismissal claims and discrimination issues. She also has experience advising on the employment aspects of business transfers, share acquisitions, large-scale relocations and collective redundancies and on employment issues arising from the closure of, and amendment to, final-salary pension schemes.
catherine.shepherd@osborneclarke.com
www.osborneclarke.com
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Kate Shepherd Kate Shepherd Associates |
Kate Shepherd is an employment lawyer and principal of her own employment law and HR business, Kate Shepherd Associates, covering both training and consultancy. In this role, she trains and advises a diverse set of employers from small- and medium-sized enterprises to charities, PLCs and international companies, as well as taking board-level director roles for some clients.
Prior to establishing the consultancy, Ms. Shepherd qualified as a solicitor, and practiced employment law at a senior level with a leading firm in the Midlands. A former Business Woman of the Year and now an East Midlands "business champion", Ms. Shepherd is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, CIPD qualified and an Institute of Business adviser and mentor.
Ms. Shepherd enjoys helping organizations transform their working relationships and environments, enabling them to meet business goals and avoid legal liabilities. Her consultancy, founded in 2005, works with clients to help them get the best out of their people, creating positive and productive workplaces.
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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Sarah Silcox |
Sarah Silcox is an experienced writer on workplace issues, specializing in occupational health and well-being, reward, pensions and benefits.
Ms. Silcox has many years' experience as a specialist researcher, editor and conference presenter, and includes government departments, employers' organizations and professional bodies among her clients.
Her recent commissions include a series of think pieces on current issues in workplace well-being for a major global health insurer, a series of case studies on aligning total reward with business strategy, and a report on employee engagement and high-performance working.
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Niran de Silva |
Niran de Silva is a barrister with Littleton Chambers. He specialises in employment-related disputes involving issues of discrimination, shareholder rights or restrictive covenants; commercial litigation; education; and disciplinary and regulatory.
nd@littletonchambers.co.uk
Niran de Silva - Littleton Chambers
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Hilary Slater |
Hilary Slater is a solicitor specialising in employment and discrimination law and a judge of the employment tribunals. Prior to taking up her role as a salaried employment tribunal judge, she was a consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, Manchester. She contributes to a number of publications. Hilary was a Principal Legal Officer with the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) from 1994 to 2001.
High-profile cases with which she was involved include Hale v Governing Body of Whickham School (schoolgirl seeking the right to wear trousers at school), Canniffe v East Riding of Yorkshire Council ('reasonable steps' defence) and cases of discrimination against transsexuals in the provision of services. Hilary qualified as a solicitor in 1988 and worked for McKenna & Co (now CMS Cameron McKenna), advising corporate and individual clients on all aspects of employment law, before joining the EOC.
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Wendy Sommerville Brodies LLP |
Wendy Sommerville is an associate solicitor in the employment team at Brodies LLP. Wendy has experience across the litigation field and has represented both employers and employees in a wide range of employment cases. Wendy advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including HR support. Brodies LLP is the largest full-service corporate and commercial law firm based solely in Scotland.
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Julie Steele |
Julie Steele is a freelance legal editor with a background in law and publishing. She has worked with XpertHR for over two years. Her career has covered both the public and private sectors and has taken her to Australia, London and back to her native Scotland.
After graduating with a first class degree in law, Julie gained a diploma in book editing and publishing while working in Australia before taking up an editorial role with a London publishing company. Moving back to Scotland in 2002, she undertook freelance editorial work and gained her diploma in legal practice. Julie completed her legal traineeship with a private law firm in Edinburgh, qualifying as a solicitor in 2006 and specialising in employment law. She then spent over three years working for the NHS Scotland Central Legal Office as an employment solicitor, providing advice and representation to her NHS Scotland Health Board clients, including in relation to the UK-wide equal pay litigation. Julie was also responsible for the monthly production and distribution of the CLO Employment newsletter to NHS Scotland human resources staff and managers. |
Elizabeth Stevens Steeles Law |
Elizabeth Stevens has specialised in employment law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2000 and now works as a professional support lawyer in the employment team at Steeles Law. Her role includes keeping track of employment law developments, writing client bulletins and articles for publication, and producing regular seminars for clients on all aspects of employment law.
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Paul Suff |
Paul Suff is a freelance journalist specialising in employment and management.
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Jill Sutherland |
Jill Sutherland qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 1987. She has worked as a lawyer in both the private and public sectors. The focus of her work during recent years has been in the fields of employment law and discrimination law.
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Mark Taylor Accountax Employment Law |
Mark Taylor specialises in representing clients in employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Mark has an LLM in employment relations and is currently operations director at Accountax Employment Law.
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Karen Teago Kate Shepherd Associates |
Karen Teago practised as a solicitor for 10 years before joining the team at Kate Shepherd Associates, where she provides bespoke training and consultancy solutions to clients across a wide range of HR and employment law topics.
Karen has substantial experience in employment law gained in leading regional commercial law firms and holds a BSc in sociology with industrial relations from the University of Bath, a Postgraduate Diploma in law from the College of Law and an Advanced Diploma in employment law from the University of East Anglia.
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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Thiago Teno Pinheiro Neto Advogados |
Thiago Teno is an associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados. He specialises in labour law. Thiago's practice areas are: employment consulting; labour judicial and administrative litigation; collective bargaining; and due diligence. He was an international associate at Wragge & Co in its London office in 2011. Thiago obtained an LL.B. degree with major in employment law from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) (2005), a specialization degree in business with major in human resources from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) (2009) and LL.M. degree (with merit) in labour law from King's College London (KCL) (2011). He speaks Portuguese and English.
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Paul Tew |
Paul Tew is a freelance writer, lecturer and consultant. He has contributed to a number of key reference works aimed at the HR/Payroll profession, as well as writing articles for both the national and the payroll press. Paul has an extensive background in running, converting and installing HR/Payroll systems for all sizes of employer within the public and private sectors. He has, in recent years, specialised in PAYE and NIC compliance issues.
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Patrick Thomas Squire Sanders |
Patrick Thomas is an associate in the labour and employment department of Squire Sanders, based in the London office. He provides a full range of employment advice to clients and advises on the employment aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Patrick is also a litigator and assists in the defence of employment tribunal claims covering unfair dismissal, redundancy and all forms of discrimination.
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Andy Thornton |
Andy Thornton is the Merseylearn manager at Merseytravel, the integrated transport authority on Merseyside, and is a part of their Learning Team.
Merseytravel have a very active approach to skills development and change management, and the Merseylearn project has received national and international acclaim for the effectiveness of their partnership approach, bringing together the resources of management, unions, Unionlearn and strategic bodies such as Sector Skills Councils and the Skills Funding Agency, in addition to being an Investors in People "Champion" organisation.
Andy has worked for Merseytravel for 22 years in a variety of roles, including an operational manager and supporting Merseytravel's change programme.
He holds degree level qualifications in marketing and management, a master's degree in management development and has academic interests in resistance to change and action learning.
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Nick Thorpe Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP |
Nick Thorpe is a solicitor at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP and has specialised in employment law since qualification in 2001. His practice covers both contentious and non-contentious work. His contentious workload includes unfair and constructive dismissal, breach of contract, whistleblowing and complex discrimination claims. He also has mediation experience.
Nick frequently advises on termination issues, discrimination law and contractual matters including bonus disputes, garden leave and post-termination restrictions. He has particular experience in the retail and financial services sectors and regularly speaks on employment law issues in those sectors.
nicholas.thorpe@ffw.com
www.ffw.com
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Andrea Tithecott Osborne Clarke |
Andrea Tithecott leads the Products Regulation and Health and Safety service lines at Osborne Clarke.
andrea.tithecott@osborneclarke.com
www.osborneclarke.com
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Sharon Tonks Eversheds LLP |
Sharon Tonks is a HR consultant in the Eversheds Consultancy Group, part of Eversheds LLP and specialises in HR support and organisational development including the management of change projects, changing terms and conditions, restructures, outsourcing and redundancies on a UK and international basis and has expertise in investigating complex dispute cases.
In addition Sharon trains business and HR professionals on a wide range of employment topics including investigation expertise and change management and is also a Chartered Member of the CIPD with a Masters degree in Human Resource Management.
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Toni Trevett CompleteHR Ltd |
Toni Trevett is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a director for CompleteHR Ltd. She works with some of the leading UK employers providing coaching, training and consultancy services in all areas of HR and people management. She is also an employee relations and employment law lecturer and a member of the employment tribunal judiciary.
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Richard Truman Miller Thomson |
Richard Truman is an associate in the Litigation group in Miller Thomson's Vancouver office. He has a broad practice in the areas of labour & employment, commercial litigation and insurance. Richard regularly assists clients and senior counsel in finding practical and cost-effective solutions to meet their legal needs.
Richard completed his J.D. at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia in 2011. Prior to law school, Richard obtained a Bachelor of Arts from UBC, majoring in International Relations.
Before pursuing a legal career, Richard worked as a supervisor for a vehicle logistics company in the auto industry. There, he gained valuable experience working with management and labour as well as a strong appreciation for the importance of practical and result-oriented advice.
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Karen Ullmann |
Karen Ullmann is a judge at the Hamburg Labour Court, and was formerly a lawyer and a researcher in labour law at the Economic and Social Research Institute (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf.
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Kate Upcraft |
Kate Upcraft FCIPP was the Policy and Research Manager at the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) from 1999 to autumn 2005. In that role she was the Technical Editor of the Institute's member magazine and its chief lobbyist, representing it on many government consultative groups.
She has now set up her own company and is a regular conference speaker, trainer and writer on legislative issues, including tax and national insurance and benefits. She is also a founder of TAKeUP Payroll Mentoring offering mentoring support to payroll professionals.
Until early 2003 she was the Payroll Legislation Manager at Marks & Spencer, for which she worked for 21 years, 12 of them in payroll.
Kate graduated with the IPP Diploma in Payroll Management in 1995, was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute in 2005 and was awarded the Strathearn Award for Lifetime Achievement in the 2005 Pay Magazine awards. She was voted one of the payroll top 50 in Payroll World magazine in 2009.
kate@kateupcaft.com
www.kateupcraft.com
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Andrew Vickers |
Andrew Vickers is deputy HR director at the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. Prior to this, he worked for the West London Mental Health Trust as employee relations manager. Andrew's earlier career was in UK utilities in both the private and public sector where he occupied a variety of senior operational HR roles. He is a chartered member of the CIPD and completed his MBA at Bradford University. Andrew's HR interests are employment law and employee relations, staff engagement and leadership development.
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Kerry Viner Osborne Clarke |
Kerry Viner is a solicitor in Osborne Clarke's specialist Recruitment Sector Team, which focuses on advising users and suppliers of contingent workforce arrangements in the UK and internationally.
Alongside recruitment industry experts Frances Lewis, Kevin Barrow and Deepa Parekh, Kerry's team advises on recruitment process outsourcing, supply chain risk, workplace tax, liability and insurance aspects, as well as the regulatory issues faced by recruitment businesses.
Kerry has also advised on the employment/worker status issues, VAT on staffing supplies and recruitment business acquisitions. Kerry regularly speaks at industry events including those held by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies and Recruiter magazine. She advises digital businesses and staffing companies on the use of social media in recruiting and has worked on a white paper for the Government on this topic.
Kerry was involved in consultations with the UK Government about employment legislation affecting the use of temporary and contract staff. Kerry qualified as an employment law solicitor before joining Osborne Clarke in 2010 to focus on legal issues specific to recruiting.
Kerry is the original author of the "Agency workers" section of the employment law manual relating to the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
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Stuart Walkley Oakridge Training and Consulting |
Stuart Walkley is a director of Oakridge Training and Consulting, which specialises in national and international leadership and management development programmes, with a particular emphasis on emotional intelligence, engagement and human capital management.
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Gareth Walls A&L Goodbody |
Gareth Walls is a partner at A&L Goodbody. He advises employers and public bodies on all contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment law, particularly the application of TUPE in the context of service provision changes in Northern Ireland. Gareth provides corporate HR support in mergers, acquisitions and disposals activity and regularly assists global corporations on restructuring for the new economy.
Gareth is a CEDR accredited mediator, a member of the Law Society Arbitration Panel and a Council member of the European Employment Lawyers Association.
gwalls@algoodbody.com
www.algoodbody.ie
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Huimin (Laura) Wang Squire Sanders |
Huimin (Laura) Wang is a partner in the Beijing office of Squire Sanders. She focuses on corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and employment issues. Ms Wang works on a daily basis with companies, HR departments and legal departments on employment-related issues. She advises clients on recruitment and termination issues, employment benefits, bonus systems and employment policies. Further, Ms Wang guides clients in negotiations with individual employees or with employee representatives, and provides clients with training on employment-related issues. Ms Wang has fourteen years of experience working with Chinese and US law firms. She is listed in the 2008 and 2009 edition of Asialaw Leading Lawyers for her mergers and acquisition expertise.
Ms Wang has experience advising several international software/high-tech companies on the employment issues of their China operations, and a leading mobile phone manufacturing company in dealing with employee representatives on issues associated with lay-off, salary increase and employment benefits. Further, she advises non-China investors on Chinese legal issues in the automotive, retail and distribution, silicon wafer manufacturing, transportation, pharmaceutical, home appliances and software industries.
Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LL.M., 1998, and Peking University, LL.B., 1997. Admissions: People's Republic of China and New York. Languages: Chinese (Mandarin, also known as Putonghua) and English.
laura.wang@squiresanders.com
www.SquireSanders.com
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Martin Warren Eversheds |
Martin Warren is a partner and head of Eversheds' labour law team.
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Claire Watt Ditton HR |
Claire Watt is the founding Director of Ditton HR, which offers HR and training services to organisations to ensure that they have easy access to high quality HR advice and support.
Claire is a qualified HR and training professional who is a fellow member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development and has over 14 years HR and Training experience, 11 years as leading the HR function. Claire is a Psychology graduate with a Masters in Personnel and Development and qualified in Psychometric Testing (Level A and B). Her experience spans across the legal profession, retail, tourism, not-for-profit and charitable sectors. Her most recent role before starting Ditton HR was as Executive Director of People at Samaritans.
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Sue West Kate Shepherd Associates |
Sue West is a Senior HR Associate at Kate Shepherd Associates. Sue has in excess of 15 years of operational and strategic HR practice in a variety of sectors including financial services, education, retail and voluntary. Sue's focus is on developing and embedding practical HR policies, processes and strategies.
www.kateshepherdassociates.co.uk
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Jon Whiteley Pearn Kandola |
Jon Whiteley is head of diversity, at occupational psychologists Pearn Kandola.
jon.whiteley@oxford.pearnkandola.com
www.pearnkandola.com
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Sheila Wild EqualPayPortal |
Sheila Wild was for many years Director of Employment Policy at the Equal Opportunities Commission and subsequently policy lead on equal pay at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She is now an independent consultant on gender equality issues and the founder of EqualPayPortal.
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Richard Wilkes Steps |
Richard Wilkes is a founder director at leading drama-based training company, Steps. He has always been interested in how environments and cultures shape behaviour, and the effect of that behaviour on others. This interest has led to training as a counsellor, subsequently working in an NHS outpatient unit, and as a mediator.
He has designed and delivered Steps programmes around the globe for clients including JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Grant Thornton, Linklaters, QinetiQ and LOCOG. He has a particular passion for raising awareness of diversity and inclusion within the financial services sector, using Steps' unique interactive theatre methodologies.
Steps is a leading provider of experiential drama-based training with over 20 years' experience. The company specialises in developing facilitated interactive learning, using drama, to inspire people to act differently. Programmes are tailored to each client, covering areas including diversity, performance management, challenging conversations and customer service.
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Sarah-Marie Williams Clyde & Co LLP |
Sarah-Marie Williams is a legal director at Clyde & Co LLP.
Sarah-Marie.Williams@clydeco.com
www.clydeco.com
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Helen Wilsenach Bowman Gilfillan |
Helen Wilsenach is a partner at Bowman Gilfillan and is based in their Johannesburg office. Since being admitted as an attorney and notary public, Helen has specialised in employment law and has 10 years experience in this area of the law.
She advises mainly employers (both local and international) on a range of issues, including the employment consequences of commercial transactions, restructurings, dismissals, employment contracts, policies and procedures, training, employment equity and discrimination. Helen has carried out training on behalf of various private and public sector clients and has appeared in various employment tribunals and courts.
In addition, and with the assistance of Bowman Gilfillan's large network of firms in Africa and the firm's own offices in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, she often assists clients with obtaining, and co-ordinating, employment-related advice in relation to countries throughout Africa.
Helen holds BA and LLB (cum laude) degrees from Rhodes University.
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Chris Wilson Reward Consulting Partners LLP |
Chris Wilson is a partner with Reward Consulting Partners LLP, a group of independent reward consultants. Chris has been in HR for more than 30 years and for the last 20 years has been specialising in all aspects of reward, in a variety of sectors. He is a chartered member of CIPD.
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Katherine Wilson Carers UK |
Katherine Wilson is Employers for Carers manager at Carers UK. Employers for Carers is a forum and practical service for employers that are committed to supporting carers in their workforce. Katherine has over 20 years' experience of working in the field of employment and equality policy, including at Carers UK, Leeds University Business School and the TUC and as an independent consultant.
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Max Winthrop Short Richardson & Forth LLP |
Max Winthrop is a partner and head of the Employment team at Short Richardson & Forth LLP, a Newcastle firm with a national presence in discrimination and employment law. Noted by both Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and the Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in employment, Max regularly appears in tribunals up and down the country, in the EAT, and has prepared cases for the Court of Appeal. Before qualifying as a solicitor, Max spent six years with a London-based construction industry trade association dealing with industrial relations issues, then moved north to qualify as a solicitor. Employment cases have featured predominantly from the start of his career, but from 1999, on joining Short Richardson & Forth LLP, Max has practiced exclusively in employment and discrimination.
Max is a member of ELA, the Industrial Law Society, and is secretary of the Newcastle Employment Tribunal Users Group.
mw@srflegal.co.uk
www.srflegal.co.uk
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Amelia Wise Bloom Psychology |
Dr Amelia Wise is a chartered psychologist specialising in career change, career development and outplacement provision. She is the Director of Bloom Psychology where she works with both private and corporate clients.
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Katie Wood |
Katie Wood is a barrister specialising in maternity and parental rights.
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Louis Wustemann |
Louis Wustemann is a writer and consultant on employment law issues, specialising in flexible working.
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Kate Wyatt Miller Hendry Solicitors |
Kate Wyatt qualified as a solicitor from a top London firm in 1998 and subsequently specialised in employment law, focusing on advising higher education institutions. She recently gained an LLM in Employment Law and Practice and is currently Head of Employment at Miller Hendry Solicitors.
www.millerhendrysolicitors.co.uk
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Charles Wynn-Evans Dechert LLP |
Charles Wynn-Evans is head of employment at Dechert.
