Lucy Bairstow
Parklane Plowden
Barrister (England and Wales/N.I.)
Regions
- Yorkshire and Humberside
19 Westgate, Leeds, LS1 2RD, United Kingdom
0844 499 5678
lucy.bairstow [at] parklaneplowden.co.uk
Lucy regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal, representing both respondents and claimants in all aspects of employment work.
Lucy regularly appears at preliminary hearings dealing with jurisdictional issues and time limit issues in discrimination cases as well as other preliminary matters and she is also regularly instructed in multi-day final hearings in discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal cases.
Lucy regularly acts for NHS Trusts, Care and Residential Homes, large commercial employers, local authorities as well as various trade unions and their members. She is also instructed to deal with judicial mediations.
She receives instructions from firms of solicitors around the county and is also accredited to accept instructions on a Direct Access basis.
Lucy is experienced in and happy to accept instructions in all areas of employment law, including:
•Unfair and wrongful dismissal
•Breach of Contract
•Working Time Regulations
•Wages
•Pension Loss
•Redundancy
•Victimisation
•Discrimination; all areas, including: sex, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, and disability.
Very recently concluded cases include:
Representing a social enterprise with Charitable status run by a Management Board of disabled people providing a variety of support services for disabled people in a claim for unfair dismissal following gross misconduct involving threatening and abusive language and behaviour within the workplace.
Representing the Respondent NHS Trust in a multi day case concerning a claim for unfair dismissal, direct discrimination (disability), discrimination arising from disability and failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Representing the Respondents in a claim for pregnancy discrimination and discrimination arising from disability following the provision of a reference which was alleged to be unfavourable and where the protected characteristics of the Claimant were inextricably bound up with each other.
Representing the Respondent NHS Trust in a claim for unfair dismissal following gross misconduct of a long-serving senior Nurse involving taking extended breaks and sleeping on the Night Shift as well as self-administering prescription drugs which had also led to referral to the NMC.
Representing a Claimant in an unlawful deductions claim against the Respondent for failure to make payments in respect of his entitlement to paid annual leave over the course of his ‘employment’ with the Respondent.
Lucy regularly appears at preliminary hearings dealing with jurisdictional issues and time limit issues in discrimination cases as well as other preliminary matters and she is also regularly instructed in multi-day final hearings in discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal cases.
Lucy regularly acts for NHS Trusts, Care and Residential Homes, large commercial employers, local authorities as well as various trade unions and their members. She is also instructed to deal with judicial mediations.
She receives instructions from firms of solicitors around the county and is also accredited to accept instructions on a Direct Access basis.
Lucy is experienced in and happy to accept instructions in all areas of employment law, including:
•Unfair and wrongful dismissal
•Breach of Contract
•Working Time Regulations
•Wages
•Pension Loss
•Redundancy
•Victimisation
•Discrimination; all areas, including: sex, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, and disability.
Very recently concluded cases include:
Representing a social enterprise with Charitable status run by a Management Board of disabled people providing a variety of support services for disabled people in a claim for unfair dismissal following gross misconduct involving threatening and abusive language and behaviour within the workplace.
Representing the Respondent NHS Trust in a multi day case concerning a claim for unfair dismissal, direct discrimination (disability), discrimination arising from disability and failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Representing the Respondents in a claim for pregnancy discrimination and discrimination arising from disability following the provision of a reference which was alleged to be unfavourable and where the protected characteristics of the Claimant were inextricably bound up with each other.
Representing the Respondent NHS Trust in a claim for unfair dismissal following gross misconduct of a long-serving senior Nurse involving taking extended breaks and sleeping on the Night Shift as well as self-administering prescription drugs which had also led to referral to the NMC.
Representing a Claimant in an unlawful deductions claim against the Respondent for failure to make payments in respect of his entitlement to paid annual leave over the course of his ‘employment’ with the Respondent.
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