Alex acts for both claimants and respondents on employment law matters. His employment law experience includes claims across the spectrum of employment law, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and injunctive relief. Highlights include:
- Representing the Claimant in a ten day Employment Tribunal, concerning claims of sex discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and victimisation (against a silk and junior counsel).
- Representing the Claimant in an eight day employment Tribunal hearing against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
- Successfully representing a Claimant teaching assistant in a three day unfair dismissal hearing which involved sensitive allegations of inappropriate physical contact with a pupil.
- Advising an inter-dealer broker on the enforceability of post-termination restrictions and pleading his defence to High Court breach of covenant claims (settled before trial).
- Advising an individual in the aftermath of her departure from an international consumer goods company, where she faced claims of breach of covenants, breach of directors’ duties, and breach of confidence (settled before trial).
- Successfully representing a Respondent recruitment agency in claims of direct race discrimination and victimisation.
- Successfully representing a Respondent retailer in claims of automatic unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriment.
- Appearing in the ET for the successful Respondents on a contested preliminary issue to determine the membership of an 1890 Partnership.
- Advising the CFO of an AIM listed company on directors’ duties and potential claims of constructive dismissal.
- A multi-party team move case in the High Court, involving allegations of breach of covenant, unlawful means conspiracy and conspiracy to injure (as a pupil).
- Pre-action advice to the applicant in a potential team-move injunction and the negotiation of terms of settlement (as a pupil).
- Drafting statements of case in the High Court and Employment Tribunal.
- Drafting grounds of appeal to the EAT in a high profile worker status case.
- Numerous preliminary hearings in the Employment Tribunal.