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Capital Law Limited Offices

Capital Law Limited
CAPITAL BUILDING
TYNDALL STREET
CARDIFF
CF10 4AZ
United Kingdom
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Richard Thomas

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07515 325 601 r.thomas@capitallaw.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Employment and Immigration

Position

Richard is a Partner in our Employment and Immigration team. He specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, advising clients in the public and private sectors.

Richard provides strategic advice on collective employee consultation duties and obligations arising out of company restructures, acquisitions, mergers, collective redundancies and outsourcing. This work includes informing, consulting and negotiating with Trade Unions to avoid legal claims and industrial action, as well as the application of TUPE. He also advises on wrongful, constructive and unfair dismissal and, all aspects of discrimination.

Richard has extensive Employment Tribunal advocacy experience across the UK and has successfully undertaken judicial and commercial mediation cases.

He deals with all employment law aspects of Corporate Insolvency including acting for Administrators, Liquidators and Companies facing insolvency situations including Pre Pack Administration situations. Richard advises on all the individual and collective employment law obligations arising out of Insolvency situations and any subsequent restructures and/or business transfers including employee rights; the legal obligations concerning individual and collective consultation and the application of UK law relating to Collective Redundancies and the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations.

Richard undertakes a significant amount of training on all aspects of employment law and is the course tutor for the Diploma in Employment Law for HR Professionals, runs in conjunction with Cardiff University.

“We use Richard Thomas for employment law advice and support because he is always responsive, reliable and give us sound advice. He understands our business and his guidance is always practical, commercial and clear. It’s refreshing to deal with a law firm that doesn’t hide behind jargon and isn’t afraid to give a pragmatic, definite view instead of just telling us what the law states.”

Amanda Canterbury, Head of HR, Cardiff City Transport Services

Career

  • Partner, Capital Law Limited (2007 – present)
  • Associate, Eversheds LLP (1999 – 2007)
  • In House Employment Counsel, GlaxoSmithKline (2006 – 2007 16-month secondment)
  • In House Employment Lawyer for NHS Wales, Welsh Health Legal Services (1996 – 1999)

Memberships

The Law Society of England and Wales
Employment Lawyers’ Association

Education

  • College of Law Guilford: CPE and Law Society Finals, Law (1991 – 1993)
  • The London School of Economics: BSc (1987 – 1990)

Lawyer Rankings

Wales > Employment > Employment

(Leading individuals)

Richard Thomas – Capital Law Limited

Capital Law Limited provides ‘sensible, responsive and practical advice‘ to a varied mix of private (including a growing number of technology and pharmaceutical clients) and public sector entities across a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Leveraging his knowledge gleaned from private practice as well as in-house, team head Richard Thomas  has vast experience across a range of employment (including in relation to collective employment law) and data protection matters, knowledge which he effectively deploys in relation to both fee-earning work, as well as training sessions. The ‘personable’ David Lewis  leverages his litigation expertise to good effect both from a risk management perspective, as well as on behalf of clients defending claims of alleged discrimination, where he will often undertake the advocacy himself. The ‘extremely helpful’ Sarah Austin  provides ‘practical solutions’, particularly as it relates to corporate support, including the employment issues associated with the firm’s private equity roster of clients on their investments. Senior associate Gemma Bailey joined from Howells Solicitors in January 2023 and adds further weight behind the firm’s contentious employment, in particular.

 

 

Wales > Employment > Immigration

Led on a day-to-day level by senior associate Alex Christen , as well as leveraging its broader overarching employment offering which is headed by Richard Thomas , Capital Law Limited provides a ‘hardworking and responsive’ service across a range of business immigration matters. Post-Brexit the team has been particularly active helping employers (including in the hospitality, finance and social housing sectors) obtain sponsor licences, thereby enabling them, under the right circumstances, to recruit from outside the UK.

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