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Simon Gorton QC
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Work Department
Employment and discrimination.
Position
Simon Gorton is a barrister specialising in employment law. Simon’s expertise is in employment tribunals and the High Court and includes restrictive covenants and breach of fiduciary duty, trade dispute litigation, TUPE and all types of discrimination with a particular emphasis on Equal Pay. He has significant experience in advocacy, advisory and drafting work at appellate level and has appeared in many leading cases, most notably as junior counsel in the landmark equal pay case of Derbyshire v St Helens MBC and the leading TUPE authority, Wilson v St Helens MBC, both in the House of Lords. Most recently Simon appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal case of UNITE v Metrobus on behalf of UNITE dealing with the right to strike under the ECHR. He is recommended as a leader in employment law both in ‘Chambers & Partners’ and the ‘Legal 500’. Endorsements attributed to Simon include that he has ‘the right touch with clients’ and is a ‘very practical and shrewd operator’ who earns top marks for his expertise on equal pay and TUPE litigation; ‘incisive, determined’. Simon lectures regularly on a variety of employment law issues.
Career
Called 1988.
Member
Employment Law Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Practice Areas
Employment
