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Michael Duggan
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Position
Barrister specialising in employment law: all areas of discrimination, wrongful and unfair dismissal, redundancies and dismissals/variation of employment contracts arising out of reorganisations. Particular experience of large-scale wrongful dismissals, restrictive covenants, harassment, trade union law including labour disputes and whistle-blowing. Recent clients have included/include financial institutions (Bank of England; Cantor Fitzgerald); local authorities (Kent, Swale, Leicestershire, Bradford); universities (Cambridge, Trinity Hall, UKC, Leicester, Lincoln); police constabularies (Kent, Nottingham, Lancashire, RART). Acts for both employer and employee. Recent cases: Driskel v Peninsula Business Services Ltd (EAT) [2000] IRLR 151; Wall v BCAS [2004] IRLR 147; Fitzgerald v UKC [2004] IRLR 300; The Scotts Co (UK) Ltd v Budd [2004] ICR 299; Fulham FC v Tigana (led in trial before Elias J November 2004); Wall v British Compressed Air Society [2004] IRLR 147 CA; Evans v Oaklands Nursing Home Group Ltd (EAT) Lindsay J; Brake Brother v Ungless (obtained injunction in first instance); Intercall Conferencing Services Ltd v Steer [2007] EWHC 519 (QB) (Full cv at www.littletonchambers.com/Barrister/Michael-Duggan.aspx). Other areas of practice include building and construction law, health and safety and professional negligence and general commercial law, especially including cases involving applications for interim injunctions and freezing orders.
Career
Called 1984; Gray’s Inn; ADR-qualified mediator. Author: ‘The Modern Law of Strikes’; ‘Business Re-Organisations and Employment Law’ (FT Law & Tax); ‘Termination of Employment of Directors’ (FT Law & Tax June 1997); ‘Unfair Dismissal’; ‘Law, Practice and Guidance’; ‘Wrongful Dismissal’; ‘Law Guidance and Precedents’ (2003); ‘Family Friendly Policies: A Handbook for Employers and Employees, and Contracts of Employment’; ‘Law Guidance and Precedents’ (2nd ed January 2005 – two volumes); XPL Publishing; (2003); ‘The Law of Industrial Action and Trade Union Recognition’ (2004; OUP with John Bowers QC/David Reade). Editor-in-chief of the ‘Civil Practice Law Reports’. General editor XPL employment law series.
Member
Employment Lawyers Association, (London and South-East representative 2004-05 and 2005-06); member Gray’s Inn barristers’ committee; ELBA; COMBAR.
Education
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA; LLM; BCL).
Practice Areas
Commercial; Employment; Litigation - commercial
