The best employment law advice comes from understanding how your organisation works and the pressures you face. That’s why we don’t just advise - we partner with our clients to build long-lasting relationships.
We take the time to get to know your business so our guidance is practical, precise and shaped around your goals. Our long-standing relationships with employers mean we can anticipate issues early and help you move confidently through sensitive or high-stakes situations.
Our Employment Team is recognised for its depth of experience and for handling some of the most complex disputes. We advise on everything from day-to-day HR questions to defending significant litigation in the Employment Tribunal and civil courts. Our Partners are regularly quoted in the national press, including The Times, for their insight into emerging legal developments and high-profile cases.
Working with us means you have a dedicated team that blends sector expertise with commercial awareness. We deliver clear, cost-effective advice that reduces risk, supports stronger decision-making and helps you meet your employer obligations under UK employment law.
Our Services
Who We Work With
We support employers of every size, from growing organisations to major national providers, across sectors including:
- Health and social care
- Housing and local government
- Charities and not-for-profit organisations
- Industry and professional services
Our strongest presence is in the social housing and wider Third Sector. We act for some of the UK’s largest housing providers, including G15 members, as well as specialist care and support organisations. Because we understand the regulatory environment they operate in – including RSH and CQC requirements – we can help you plan ahead, manage scrutiny and make confident workforce decisions.
How We Help Employers
We advise across the full employment lifecycle. If you are facing a specific issue, whether a dispute, a restructuring or a question about day-to-day HR management, we help you understand your position and the steps to take next.
Disputes
- Employment disputes, including managing employee misconduct and complex conduct issues
- Board Member and NED disputes
- Sensitive exits and succession involving CEOs and other senior executives
Employment Litigation
- Civil claims, including breach of contract
- Employment tribunal defence, from straightforward unfair dismissal to complex whistleblowing, discrimination, harassment, victimisation and equal pay claims
- Pursuing appeals and defending employers in the Employment Appeal Tribunal
Our approach to litigation is strategic and measured. We identify the points that matter, evaluate settlement and reputational risk, and work with you to choose the right route forward.
M&A, Outsourcing & TUPE
- Employment aspects of acquisitions, disposals and outsourcing
- Drafting and negotiating warranties and indemnities in SPAs, APAs and outsourcing agreements
- Employment due diligence
- Advice on TUPE, including information and consultation duties and post-transfer harmonisation
We help you structure transactions in a way that is legally robust and operationally workable, with a clear focus on people risk.
Employment Advisory Support
- Day-to-day HR guidance and HR compliance for employers UK
- ER issues, recruitment and people management
- Misconduct, flexible and agile working, secondments, performance and absence management
- Pay and benefits
- Consultancy arrangements
- Dismissal procedures for employers
- Family-friendly rights
- Whistleblowing
Our advice is designed to be used. We give you clear options, highlight the risks and help you choose a route that fits your organisation and culture.
Managing Business Change & Redundancy
If you’re preparing for organisational change, we help you shape a process that is fair, compliant and commercially sound.
- Planning for business change and workplace restructuring legal advice
- Redundancy legal advice for employers
- Individual and collective consultation
- Industrial relations, trade unions and staff councils
- Notice, severance, negotiation and settlement agreements for employers
We support you from early planning through to implementation, helping you manage legal, employee relations and reputational risk.
Restrictive Covenants & Team Moves
- Drafting and reviewing restrictive covenants and confidentiality provisions
- Advice on potential breaches, enforcement options and practical steps
- Responding to team moves and protection of confidential information
- We focus on enforceable, proportionate protections and realistic strategies where covenants are tested.
Contracts, Policies & Procedures
- Drafting, reviewing and updating contracts, policies and handbooks
- Aligning documents with legislative change, case law and your governance structures
- We ensure your documentation is clear, consistent and supports how you actually manage your workforce.
Investigations
- Advice on internal investigations into grievances, disciplinaries and whistleblowing concerns
- Independent investigations where an external, impartial view is required
- We help you scope investigations, manage stakeholders and document conclusions in a way that stands up to scrutiny.
Data
- UK GDPR and data protection advice in an employment context
- Support with data subject access requests (DSARs) and other employee data issues
- We work closely with our Information Law specialists where appropriate, so that your approach to employee data is both compliant and practical.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Advice on discrimination, harassment and victimisation issues
- Support with EDI policy development and implementation
- Managing social media and reputational issues with an equality dimension
- We help you address immediate problems and build approaches that support a fair and inclusive workplace over the longer term.
Training
- Bespoke training for HR teams, managers and senior leadership
- Legal surgeries for quick, focused advice
Added Value
- Regular external speaking engagements and our own seminar programme
- A weekly blog with case law updates and commentary on legal change
- Our aim is to keep you informed, build internal capability and reduce the likelihood of avoidable disputes.
Case Highlights
- Proactive litigation strategy: Secured the Claimant’s withdrawal of disability discrimination claims against a property management client following a targeted costs warning.
- Practical resolutions: Defended a house builder for a local authority in multi-claimant age and race discrimination proceedings, securing favourable outcomes through judicial mediation.
- Support on strategic projects: Advised on the sale of six care homes, including TUPE, service contracts and regulatory compliance.
- Reputation and crisis management: Advised one of the country’s largest social landlords following an employee’s arrest for murder, including regulator and media engagement.
- Guiding leadership change: Supported a Board through the removal of a long-serving CEO, reducing legal risk and maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Decisive litigation: Secured full defence success in a case involving disability discrimination, whistleblowing, harassment and constructive dismissal.
Why Employers Choose Us
- Deep sector expertise, especially in housing, care and charities
- Strong record in high-value, high-risk Tribunal litigation
- Clear, commercially grounded advice
- Proactive support that helps prevent problems before they arise
- Trusted by sector regulators for specialist insight
Meet the Team
Our Employment Team brings together experienced lawyers with a clear, pragmatic approach to solving workplace issues. Many of our Partners and senior lawyers have spent years advising employers in highly regulated sectors, giving them a detailed understanding of the operational and governance pressures you manage.
We work collaboratively across the team so you benefit from the right mix of experience on every matter. Our lawyers regularly speak at sector events, contribute to the national press and deliver tailored training for HR and leadership teams.
You will work with people who are straightforward, measured and focused on giving you advice you can act on. Whether you’re handling a complex restructuring, managing a sensitive employee issue or preparing for litigation, we help you plan ahead and make confident, well‑supported decisions.
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