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Capsticks

35 NEWHALL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B3 3PU, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0121 230 1500
DX:
DX 13003 BIRMINGHAM
Web:
www.capsticks.com
Email:
London, Leeds, Birmingham

Gary Hay

Tel:
Work +44 121 230 1522
Email:
Capsticks

Work Department

Employment

Position

Gary is a partner and head of Capsticks’ Birmingham office. He specialises in advising on employment issues at a senior management/executive level; public law; doctors disciplinaries; DDA/stress claims and equality and diversity. High-profile cases include interpretation of a collective agreement in the railway industry; a dispute over apportionment of firefighters pensions; representing the council for healthcare regulatory excellence in the High Court; judicial reviews involving the Local Government Finance Act. He is a regular speaker at seminars, focusing particularly on giving practical guidance and risk management advice, most recently having covered equality and diversity and age discrimination.

Career

Trained Alastair Thomson & Partners and worked there 1986-91; Vizards/Vizard Oldham, London 1994-2006 (merged with Weightmans to form Weightman Vizards 2002); Capsticks 2006.

Member

Law Society; Employment Lawyers Association.

Education

Lancing College; Oxford Polytechnic (1985 BA Hons Law and English 2(1)); College of Law, Chester (1986 Law Society Finals); Imperial College, London (1993 MA Business Administration).

Leisure

Running, football, tennis, theatre, cinema, creative writing.

Practice Areas

Employment

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