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Lucy Mclynn

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Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP

Work Department

Employment.

Position

Contentious employment work with particular emphasis on discrimination and status issues; reported cases include Coleman v Attridge Law [2010] IRLR 10 and [2008] IRLR 722; Randall v Southampton City College [2006] IRLR 18; Melhuish v Redbridge CAB [2005] IRLR 419; Virgo Fidelis School v Boyle [2004] IRLR 268 and South East Sheffield CAB v Grayson [2004] IRLR 353 (advocate in both cases); regular advocate in employment tribunals and employment appeal tribunals on behalf of both claimants and respondents.

Career

Trained Farrar’s Building; qualified 1997 barrister, 2001 solicitor; partner Bates Wells & Braithwaite 2005 to date; author of ‘Working Time and Holidays – A Practical Legal Guide’ (November 2009, Oxford University Press); author of articles for ‘The Times’ and ‘Personnel Today’.

Languages

French, Italian.

Member

Employment Lawyers Association; Industrial Law Society (executive committee member); advisory panel of Equal Opportunities Review.

Education

Bristol University (1994 first class Honours degree in English); City University (1996 CPE); Inns of Court School of Law (1997 Bar Vocational Course)

Leisure

Travel, skiing, reading, film, wine appreciation.

Practice Areas

Employment; Health and safety

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