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Brodies LLP

15 ATHOLL CRESCENT, EDINBURGH, EH3 8HA
Tel:
Work 0131 228 3777
Fax:
Fax 0131 228 3878
Web:
www.brodies.com
Email:
Glasgow, Edinburgh

Joan M Cradden

Tel:
Work +44 131 656 0130
Email:
Brodies LLP

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; 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

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

Languages: German.

Member

Member: ELA; Scottish Employment Law Group.

Education

Education: Rathmore Grammar, Belfast; Edinburgh University (1988 MA Hons Social Policy and Politics; 1991 LLB Merit; 1992 Diploma in Legal Practice).

Leisure

Leisure: Running, reading, classical violin.

Practice Areas

Employment

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