Amanda Isherwood > Gorvins Solicitors > Stockport, England > Lawyer Profile
Gorvins Solicitors Offices
DALE HOUSE
TIVIOT DALE
STOCKPORT
SK1 1TA
England
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Amanda Isherwood
Work Department
Employment
Position
Amanda was promoted to Senior Associate in the Employment team in December 2022. She acts for both employees and employers in a wide variety of employment law matters, including providing advice on complex grievance and disciplinary processes, settlement agreements and exit negotiations. Having initially started her career as a litigator, Amanda has extensive experience in the contentious aspects of employment law representing clients in a wide variety of employment tribunal cases, in recent years with a particular focus on disability as well as maternity and pregnancy cases. Amanda regularly conducts her own Tribunal advocacy with great success, having represented clients in preliminary hearings right up to a multi-day complex TUPE case.
Career
Trained at Turner Parkinson Solicitors Limited and qualified in2013.
Joined Gorvins in 2017 and was promoted to Senior Associate in December 2022.
Education
2009 – 2010 – The College of Law Manchester (LPC)
2006 – 2009 – The University of Leeds (LLB Hons)
Personal
Work Highlights
Conducting her own advocacy in a multiple day Tribunal hearing successfully representing a claimant in his claim for automatic unfair dismissal relating to a TUPE transfer.
Successfully representing a vulnerable claimant in a disability discrimination against a large public body and securing a six-figure award.
Providing advice and representation to countless women on their rights during pregnancy and maternity leave.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Employment > Employment: employee/union firms
Gorvins Solicitors employee and trade union offering is overseen by David Rogers, who leverages over twenty years of sector experience to advise on collective redundancy arrangements, senior executive departures and post-termination restrictions, as well as competently representing clients in Employment Tribunal claims. A key point of differentiation for the group is its sector expertise in maternity and pregnancy discrimination matters, with the ‘excellent’ Amanda Isherwood actively involved in disciplinary processes and settlement negotiations. David is also well versed in issues emerging from complex TUPE arrangements, including negotiating with Trade Union representatives and handling tribunal claims.
North West > Employment > Employment
Gorvins Solicitors has seen an uptick in litigation work over the past twelve months, especially regarding Covid-19 and discrimination disputes, as well as collective redundancies and employee exit issues. Team head David Rogers is a go-to advisor for the firm’s extensive list of clients in the manufacturing and distribution industry for TUPE advice, due to his previous in-house counsel experience, and is also well versed in large scale reorganisation mandates and disciplinary disputes. Amanda Isherwood has a broad practice particularly concentrated on senior executive arrivals and exits, as well as contentious matters involving disability, maternity and pregnancy cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the North West
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the North West
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the North West
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: employee/union firms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud