Kate Wyatt > Lindsays > Dundee, Scotland > Lawyer Profile

Kate Wyatt

01382 317182 katewyatt@lindsays.co.uk

Work Department

Employment

Position

Kate is a Partner in the employment team and is based in Lindsays Dundee office. She has specialised in employment law since qualification and has advised both employers and individuals in a wide range of employment matters. 

Kate has worked with employer and employee clients from a variety of sectors. She has experience of acting for organisations in the life sciences, the higher education and independent schools sector, and for charities and not-for-profit organisations.

Kate has experience of bringing and defending discrimination claims, along with unfair dismissal and equal pay claims, and provides her employer clients with advice in relation to disciplinary and grievance matters, capability and conduct dismissals, redundancies and restructurings along with contract issues. She has also advised employees and employers on the application of the TUPE regulations.

Kate also advises senior employees, including in relation to negotiating contracts of employment and settlement agreements, and on post termination restrictions.

Career

Training contract with Allen & Overy in the City of London; solicitor with Mills & Reeve in Cambridge; associate solicitor with Miller Hendry in Perth and Dundee; joined Lindsays in 2014, becoming a partner in April 2016.

Memberships

ELA (Employment Law Association)

Education

LLB in English Law – King’s College London; Maitrise in French Law – University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne;  LLM in Employment Law – University of Leicester; Qualified via the transfer test in Scottish law in 2012.  Fluent French and Spanish.