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St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5LS
England
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Elizabeth Hodgetts
Work Department
St Philips Employment
Position
Elizabeth practises exclusively in employment law and employment-related civil litigation. She is regularly briefed by government bodies, local authorities, NHS Trusts, educational institutions and private sector employers, including blue chip companies. She also welcomes instructions from claimants. Her Employment Tribunal practice includes the full range of discrimination claims, including complex and high value claims involving assertions of historical allegations and psychiatric injury arising from discrimination, whistleblowing claims, equal pay, collective consultation and trade disputes including claims involving administrations and insolvencies, TUPE disputes, breach of contract claims including enhanced redundancy and commission disputes, and significant unfair and wrongful dismissal claims. She is regularly briefed to appear in multi-week hearings. Elizabeth also advises and represents in employment-related High Court and County Court litigation, including breach of contract claims and restrictive covenant claims in which injunctive relief is sought.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1998; Middle Temple; appointed to Attorney General’s Regional Panel of Counsel in 2012; reappointed 2018.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association (currently Midlands Regional Representative)
Education
Mansfield College, University of Oxford (BA Hons, exhibitioner; MA); Middle Temple (Harmsworth scholar and exhibitioner).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Elizabeth Hodgetts –St Philips Chambers ‘Elizabeth has professionalism and thoroughness. She has a very good advocacy style and an excellent, reassuring demeanour.’
St Philips Chambers is a ‘trusted chambers with a great selection of talented barristers’ and continues to advise claimants and respondents on discrimination, unfair dismissal and whistleblowing cases, as well as handling equal pay and restrictive covenants matters. Edmund Beever has ‘an inherent ability to put clients at ease’, and is currently representing an employer in a gross misconduct dismissal matter. Sophie Garner is representing a claimant in a discrimination and unfair dismissal matter, while Elizabeth Hodgetts is defending a local government employer against a claim for constructive unfair dismissal brought by a former employee. Theodora Hand is now head of employment at Appleby in Bermuda, and Jonathan Gidney was made an Employment Judge in April 2023.