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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

HANOVER HOUSE, 14 HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, W1S 1HP, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7667 5000
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44617 MAYFAIR
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Howard Hymanson

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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

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Employment.

Position

Howard is a partner and head of the employment group. He is a well known employment lawyer who acts for both employers and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Howard has developed a particular expertise in conducting high value discrimination cases and therefore has a significant level of employment Tribunal and High Court litigation experience. During this past year he has been instructed by a number of leading female partners in high profile law firms and accountancy practices to assist them conducting their claims for sex discrimination, which have resulted in mediated settlements. In contrast to most employment lawyers, Howard also has significant experience in conducting high value High Court personal injury claims arising through bullying in the work place and has a case against Credit Suisse listed for trial in June 2011. He regularly advises on senior executives’ terminations, director/shareholder disputes and restrictive covenant injunctions. Howard represents clients in the professional services, online travel and leisure, investment banking, sports, media and entertainment sectors including LastMinute.Com, Professional Cricketers Association and ISAM UK Ltd (Hedge fund). Howard also is a member of the Legislative and Policy Committee of the Employment Lawyers Association. He has also appeared on Nand radio in connection with some of his high profile discrimination cases, most notably in relation to acting for his client Gillian Switalski in her litigation against F&C Asset management.

Career

Trained Finers Stephens Innocent; qualified 1992; assistant solicitor Fox Williams 1997-2000; partner and co-head of employment Pritchard Englefield; partner and London head of employment Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons 2003-09; partner and head of employment group Harbottle & Lewis 2009.

Member

Legislative and policy committee, Employment Lawyers Association; regularly contributes to and chairs working parties commenting on draft legislation.

Education

Bury Grammar School; University of Birmingham (1989 LLB 2(2)).

Leisure

Football, film, theatre.

Practice Areas

Employment

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  • Account of profits v damages: when and why does it matter?

    Since 2007, Experience Hendrix LLC(Hendrix) and Times Newspapers Ltd (Times) have been litigating over the intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert that took place at the Royal Albert Hall in February 1969. In September 2006 Times distributed a free CD, or covermount, with each edition of The Sunday Times . A claim was issued against Times in March 2007 for infringement of copyright and performers’ rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. In March 2008 the High Court held that Times had infringed the IPR in the recording and Hendrix elected to have an inquiry as to damages in respect of that infringement. The case has given rise to some complex issues as to the basis for the quantification of damages, and the inquiry is due to be heard next year, but the case is also a reminder of more general considerations in relation to remedies in IPR cases, and why the basis for quantification of those remedies can have far reaching consequences for a successful claimant.

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