15 ATHOLL CRESCENT, EDINBURGH, EH3 8HA, SCOTLAND
- Tel:
- Work 0131 228 3777
- Fax:
- Fax 0131 228 3878
- Web:
- www.brodies.com
- Email:
Joan Cradden
- Tel:
- Work +44 131 656 0130
- Email:
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Partner and head of the employment team at Brodies; combines experience as an employment lawyer in private practice with three years as an in-house HR adviser at The Royal Bank of Scotland; noted for finance sector experience, her approach is business-focused, bringing valuable insight from the client’s perspective; appears regularly before Employment Tribunals throughout the UK and has also appeared before the EAT in Scotland on a number of occasions; particularly enjoys training and had developed a number of tailored programmes for clients on subjects ranging from TUPE to risk management in grievance handling; the fields of employee relations and discrimination law hold a special interest; has studied both at an academic level and in the context of legal practice.
Career
Trained Brodies WS; qualified 1994; assistant Brodies 1994-95; in-house adviser for human resources Royal Bank of Scotland 1995-97; assistant Brodies 1997-99; associate 1999; partner 2001.
Languages
German.
Member
ELA; Scottish Employment Law Group.
Education
Rathmore Grammar, Belfast; Edinburgh University (1988 MA Hons Social Policy and Politics; 1991 LLB Merit; 1992 Diploma in Legal Practice).
Leisure
Running, reading, classical violin.
Practice Areas
Employee share schemes; Employment
