Bates Wells

Employment

Paul is a Partner and Head of Employment at Bates Wells. As a specialist employment and discrimination lawyer, he advises employers and senior executives on the full range of legal issues connected with employment, including the formation and termination of the employment relationship, litigation, large-scale redundancies, TUPE, share options, and bonus disputes.

Paul’s corporate and institutional clients include media organisations, financial institutions, charities (including schools), technology companies, and professional firms (including other law firms and barristers chambers).

His litigation experience includes pursuing and defending cases in the Employment Tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court, and the Court of Appeal. Some of Paul’s work include: conducting a successful appeal in the case of Charm Offensive Productions v Lazarov; advising an organisation in respect of contractual changes, achieving savings in excess of £5m; successfully defending a household name business facing class action litigation worth in excess of £1.5m; and successfully defending an international airline facing claims of sex discrimination and unfair dismissal (before the Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal).

Partner, Bates Wells

Joined Bates Wells Braithwaite, 2011

Solicitor, Eversheds LLP, 2008- 2011

Admitted as a solicitor, 2007

Trainee, Rowley Ashworth 2005-2008

Member of the Employment Lawyers Association Training Committee

Member of the Industrial Law Society

Featured in The Lawyer’s 2019 Hot 100 list

Current directorships: Trustee and Director of School 21

College of Law (London)

University of Kent

Bristol University

St Simon Stock RC, Maidstone, Kent