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Caspar Glyn KC
Cloisters
Chair
More...Caspar advises on contentious disputes and is a trial and appellate lawyer. His practice covers the whole width of the employment relationship, contractual (including injunctive relief) and regulatory sports' disputes and other linked contractual and commercial claims including civil fraud and fiduciary duties.
Chair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Kathleen Healy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Deputy Chair
More...Kathleen's practice is focussed on assisting multi-national clients with complex employment law matters. In particular she has detailed experience of helping clients navigate the employment and industrial relations issues arising on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings.
DeputyChair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Catrina Smith
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Chair, Legislative & Policy Committee
More...Catrina is a partner in the employment team at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. Her work spans the full range of contentious and non-contentious issues. Much of her work has an international angle and she regularly works with her employment law colleagues across the world on multi-jurisdictional issues.
LandPChair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Anna Birtwistle
Farrer & Co LLP
Chair, International Committee
More...Anna is a partner in the employment team at Farrer & Co. LLP specialising in Employment and Partnership law. Much of her work has an international angle and she specialises in advising executives and partners at the most senior levels of organisations, as well as multinational employers, on the full range of non-contentious and contentious matters, in particular focussing on employee competition and complex whistleblowing and discrimination matters.
InternationalChair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Marc Jones
Marjon Law Ltd
Editor, ELA Briefing
More...Marc acts for individuals and organisations. This has included both employment and commercial related disputes in the employment tribunal, county court and High Court, which has ranged from, amongst other things, TUPE and boardroom disputes to restrictive covenants and non-employment discrimination.
ELABriefingEditor [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Eliza Nash
Constantine Law Limited
Chair, Pro Bono Committee
More...Eliza is a partner at Constantine Law, a specialist employment and regulatory law firm.
ProBonoChair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Beth Hale
CM Murray LLP
Chair, Pastoral Committee & Law Society Council Seat (Advisory Role)
More...Beth Hale is a Partner specialising in Employment and Partnership law and also acts as General Counsel for the firm. Beth is extremely well-regarded and has a particular strength in explaining and simplifying complex legal concepts.
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Sarah Wilder
Staffbase UK Limited
In-house Representative
More...Sarah has been practising employment law for over 20 years - and the key word that sums up her career journey as an employment lawyer is varied!
InHouseChair [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Cerys Mather
Chair, Junior Committee
More...Cerys is an Associate at DAC Beachcroft LLP, where she has been a member of the London Employment Team for three years after qualifying at Slaughter and May in 2019. She advises employers across multiple sectors including financial services, health, retail and construction on the full range of contentious and non-contentious issues. She has a particular focus on tech clients, having spent time on two separate in-house secondments in the sector.
cemather [at] dacbeachcroft.com
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Jennifer Danvers
Cloisters
Member at Large
More...Jen Danvers is a barrister at Cloisters (2012 call) and a fee-paid Employment Judge in the South West region. She represents and advises both employees and employers across the full range of employment disputes. She also undertakes internal investigations and has experience via a secondment with in-house practice. Prior to starting pupillage, she worked for a year within the employment team of an international law firm.
jjd [at] cloisters.com
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Olivia Dobbie
Cloisters
Member at Large
More...Olivia-Faith Dobbie is an employment and discrimination law barrister at Cloisters, called to the Bar in 2007. She practises in both the civil courts and employment tribunals and has appeared in cases at all levels, including the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Olivia was appointed as a part-time Employment Judge in 2020.
ofd [at] cloisters.com
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Charlotte Middleton
Knights Professional Services Limited
Member at Large
More...Charlotte is a Senior Associate at Knights plc, a legal and professional services business delivering services to business clients across the UK. Charlotte trained and is based in the Sheffield office and qualified in 2015. Charlotte is a passionate no nonsense employment lawyer with particular expertise in advising businesses in retail, manufacturing/engineering, heritage sites and financial services.
Memberatlarge [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Pooja Dasgupta
Farrer & Co LLP
Junior Member at Large
More...Pooja is a specialist employment and partnership lawyer, advising senior executives, LLP members and employers on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Prior to joining Farrer & Co LLP, she spent her first 5 years of qualification at boutique law firm, CM Murray LLP.
Memberatlarge [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Sarah Hayes
Paris Smith LLP
Regional Representative, Lower South East
More...Sarah is a Solicitor at Paris Smith LLP. Sarah trained with the firm and qualified into the Employment Department in 2018. Sarah enjoys advising on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment law. She works closely with employers and employees across a wide range of business sectors to support them with any issues that arise during the course of the employment relationship.
LowerSERegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Claire Rolston
CLR Law
Regional Representative, North East
More...Claire is a Director and founder of CLR Law, a boutique employment law and commercial litigation practice in Gateshead. Prior to that she was a Partner at a firm in Leeds.
NERegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Lindsey Knowles
Brabners LLP
Regional Representative, North West
More...Lindsey is an experienced employment lawyer who acts for a range of clients including employers of all sizes as well as employees. Lindsey is a Senior Associate based in the Liverpool office of Brabners Employment and Pensions Team.
NWRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Fiona Herrell
Brodies LLP
Regional Representative, Scotland
More...Fiona provides commercial, strategic and pragmatic advice on all aspects of employment law. Her general advisory practice includes assisting employers with complex disciplinary and grievance matters, redundancies and reorganisations, covenant enforceability, contractual variations and executive on-boarding/terminations.
ScotlandRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Allan Roberts
Guildhall Chambers
Regional Representative, South West
More...Allan is a specialist employment, discrimination and commercial law barrister with a considerable reputation for high-level whistleblowing and discrimination cases as well as High Court matters for restraint of trade, breach of confidence and executive
SWRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Sam Greenhalgh
Birketts LLP
Regional Representative, Upper South East
More...Sam is a Legal Director in the employment team at Birketts LLP.
UpperSERegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Hannah Belton
Morgan LaRoche
Regional Representative, Wales
More...Hannah is described by the Legal 500 as being “full of great advice on the how, what and why of HR issues”.
WalesRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Marie Walsh
Consilia Legal
Regional Representative, Yorkshire & Humberside
More...Marie Walsh is an experienced employment lawyer who has acted on behalf of a wide range of clients throughout her 19 years qualification. She is well known and respected amongst her peers and clients for her straightforward no nonsense approach to the issues and her common sense attitude when it comes to the parties best interests and costs.
YorksRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk
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Paul McFarlane
Capsticks Solicitors LLP
Past Chair 2022-2024
More...Paul is a Partner at Capsticks who he joined in 2019. Prior to that he was a Partner for a decade at Weightmans and before that he was an in-house solicitor at London Transport and then Royal Mail. Paul has 25 years' post qualification experience advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues.