50-52 CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, WC2A 1HL, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7657 1555
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Fraser Whitehead
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Work Department
Parliament and legal affairs/employment/civil rights/collective redress/health and safety/personal injury. Specialises in all serious injury cases, in particular industrial disease in employment issues, particularly collective disputes and in governmental relations and public consumer affairs. EU law, in particular collective labour law and collective and consumer redress, as well as civil rights and justice.
Position
Head of department, senior litigation partner, head of trade union services group. Advises trade unions and their members on a wide variety of work-related and labour law issues including collective and individual employment rights, collective and regulatory law, work environment issues including health and safety and accident and disease compensation; occasional adviser to voluntary and not-for-profit sector; a number of House of Lords decisions on labour law and Court of Appeal and EAT decisions on individual employment rights. Growing practice in civil rights issues.
Career
Articled Wilkinson Kimbers & Staddon; qualified 1975; partner Russell Jones & Walker since 1978; committee member, Westminster and Holborn Law Society since 1986 (President 1995), Law Society Council Member since 1977; management committee, London Solicitors Litigation Association since 1988; management committee, Mary Ward Law Centre 1988-2002, former secretary and honorary legal advisor Islington Legal Advisory Centre, former Chair and now hon legal adviser to Child Accident Prevention Trust; Chair, Society of Labour Lawyers; past Chairman, Law Society Civil Litigation Committee; member of Law Society Representation Board; member Advisory Council Unions 21; Chair Law Society Civil Justice Section; Chair, Law Society costs and funding working party. Member Ministry of Justice Civil Costs Advisory Committee.
Member
APIL; PIP; I of ER; Law Society Council; Society of Labour Lawyers; Community; GMB.
Education
Pocklington School; Sheffield University (1972 LLB Hons); King’s College, London (1992 Diploma European Community Law).
Leisure
Family, Labour Party, trade unions.
Practice Areas
Civil liberties and human rights; Employment; Personal injury - claimant
