EXPERTISE
Employment & Discrimination Law
Jamie is a specialist employment and discrimination law barrister with twenty one years’ experience in dealing with employment disputes of all kinds. He appears locally in Newcastle Employment Tribunal, but receives the majority of his instructions nationally, appearing frequently in Glasgow Employment Tribunal and throughout England.
Jamie has a varied client base receiving instructions from FTSE 100 companies, local authorities, NHS Trusts and small and medium enterprises.
His Claimant work varies from acting on behalf of trade union members to individuals in a wide range of circumstances. A particular recent focus has been successfully representing Claimants in claims of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Jamie has a thriving advisory practice and because of his specialism he is often called upon to advise in relation to a tricky point of law or where there is no obvious answer.
He enjoys appellate work and particularly welcomes instructions to appear in the Employment Appeal Tribunal in both London and Edinburgh or to provide advice in respect of prospects of bringing or defending an appeal.
Examples of Jamie’s work includes:
- Regularly defends all types of claim in the Employment Tribunal be it discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal.
- Appearing in lengthy cases representing Respondents facing a significant range of allegations and needing to manage the size and scope of the litigation.
- Defending public sector employers in relation to multiple party holiday pay litigation.
- Multi party TUPE litigation, both public and private sector.
- Whistleblowing claims and successfully establishing the absence of a public interest disclosure.
- Representing public and private sector employees experiencing harassment in the workplace. Jamie has successfully acted on behalf of Claimants in sex, race and disability harassment claims.
- Frequently instructed in claims of disability discrimination on behalf of both Claimants and Respondents. Has a strong grasp of the legislation and the underlying case law.
- Drafting contractual terms, particularly where there is an issue relating to employment status or the enforceability of terms.
Jamie keeps up to date both with developments in law but also wider policy issues within the workplace generally. He is able to undertake policy work, advising employers on matters that go beyond a strict legal analysis.
Jamie has a teaching qualification and is able to provide training on any aspect of employment law. His equality and diversity training is engaging and tries to be of practical application as opposed to a lecture on the law.
APPOINTMENTS
- Fee Paid Employment Judge - North Western Region
- Deputy District Judge - North Eastern Circuit
MEMBERSHIPS
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Newcastle upon Tyne Employment Tribunal Users Group
EDUCATION & AWARDS
- LLB (Hons), LLM
- Sir Thomas More Bursary (Lincoln's Inn)
SEMINARS
- Disability Discrimination Update for Claimants and Respondents
- Whistleblowing: Tactics for Claimants and Respondents
- An Introduction to the Equality Act 2010
- The Equality Act 2010 Made Interesting
- Technology and Social Media
- Privilege and Without Prejudice Discussions
- What You Need to Know About the New Employment Tribunal Rules and Fees Regime - Employment Lawyers Association
- Managing Social Media in the Modern Workplace
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Jamie is authorised to accept instructions under the Bar Public Access scheme.
LinkedIn
