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Paul Statham
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Work Department
Employment law; libel, slander and defamation; race and sex discrimination; European Community law.
Position
Paul Statham has been an employment lawyer for more than 20 years. He has had conduct of many of the leading authorities on trade union members rights and industrial action, including the longest ever Employment Tribunal case (Payne & Ors v PLA), the major case relating to trade union discrimination on recruitment (Fitzpatrick v BRB), the House of Lords’ case on personal contracts and action short of dismissal (Palmer v ABP), the European Court case on the Working Time Directive (Bowden v Tuffnells Express), the European Court of Human Rights case on trade union discrimination (Wilson and Palmer v the UK Government) and leading cases on the right to strike, such as Connex v RMT and LUL v RMT.
Career
Qualified 1983; partner Pattinson & Brewer Solicitors 1989.
Member
Legislative and Policy Committee; Employment Lawyers’ Association; executive committees for the Institute of Employment Rights and the Industrial Law Society.
Education
Battersea Grammar School; University of Warwick (1980 LLB); College of Law, Guildford
Leisure
Tennis, cycling, Chelsea FC and underwater photography.
