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Michael Ford
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Work Department
Employment, personal injury.
Position
Michael has been instructed in several important appellate cases over the past 12 months. Other matters include a pending challenge, by way of judicial review proceedings, to system by which local authorities hold their pension funds; a case to be brought before the domestic courts and probably the ECHR as to union blacklisting in the past. Significant work/case highlights over the past 12 months include: Stringer v HM Revenue and Customs [2009] IRLR 214 [2009] ICR 932, European Court of Justice; [2009] UKHL 31, [2009] ICR 985, House of Lords. British Airways v Williams [2009] EWCA Civ 281, [2009] IRLR 491, [2009] ICR 907, Court of Appeal; Supreme Court pending. Austin v Chief Constable Surrey [2010] EWHC 266 (Admin), Collins J (Lawtel (Lawtel AC0123772; Chimerek and others; Gibb v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2009] IRLR 862, High Court; Amendments to the draft Agency Workers Regulations 2010; Grundy v British Airways (No.2) [2008] EWCA Civ 875, [2008] IRLR 815; other advisory work.
Career
Solicitor Slaughter and May 1987-89; lecturer in law University of Manchester 1990-92; Birkbeck College 1996-98; called 1992, Middle Temple; former visiting fellow at LSE; part-time Employment Tribunal chairman. Editor ‘Redgrave’s Health & Safety’; author ‘Munkman Employers’ Liability’; many other publications including ‘Privacy and Surveillance at Work’, articles in ‘Industrial Law Journal’, and ‘Modern Law Journal’.
Languages
French (fluent).
Member
Part-time Employment Tribunal Chairman; Industrial Law Society; executive committee member, Institute of Employment Rights.
Education
Gravesend Grammar School; University of Bristol (LLB Hons 1st class); University of Sheffield (MA distinction); Law Society Finals (1st class).
Leisure
Cycling (former member of the Great Britain Road Squad 1982-83), philosophy, natural history; Treasurer of the Bat Conservation Trust.
Practice Areas
Employment; Health and safety; Public inquiries
