Helen Goss > Boyes Turner > Reading, England > Lawyer Profile

Boyes Turner
ABBOTS HOUSE
ABBEY STREET
READING
RG1 3BD
England

Work Department

Employment

Position

Helen is a partner in the firm’s Employment team and heads up the Leisure & Hospitality group. She advises organisations in various sectors including technology and hospitality on all employment and HR related issues with the aim of providing a workable solution which is commercial and pragmatic. Helen has particular expertise in complex discrimination, reorganisations and acquisitions involving employees. Helen is a fully qualified and accredited work place mediator and business coach and leads Boyes Turner Coaching for corporate clients.

Career

Helen qualified in a leading matrimonial firm in central London and dealt with multi £million financial cases. She was involved in 2 reported cases namely re A which was the first case under the Child Abduction Act 1984 and T V T in the Court of Appeal the first pension sharing case. Since 2001 Helen has been practicing employment law and acted for Serco in the landmark case of Lawson v Serco in the House of Lords in relation to employment rights of overseas workers.

Languages

English

Memberships

Law Society

Employment Lawyers Association

European Employment Lawyers Association

PMA

EEMC

Education

Helen graduated from University College Cardiff and the College of Law in London.

Leisure

Theatre, travel.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40

(Leading individuals)

Helen Goss  – Boyes Turner

Boyes Turner‘s employment practice group is among the largest in the Thames Valley and acts on behalf of international clients in the tech, leisure and hospitality sectors. Barry Stanton heads up the team and represents many of the firm’s high-end clients in this space. Helen Goss is another key contact within the team, praised for her ‘invaluable blend of legal guidance, support, encouragement and resilience’. She has particular expertise in discrimination, breach of contract and whistleblowing claims. Andrew Whiteaker handles the full-range of employment law issues, and is recommended by clients for providing ‘pragmatic advice in a user friendly manner’. Senior associate Claire Taylor-Evans is an experienced tribunal advocate and focuses her practice on complex discrimination claims and managing high-level exits.