Weightmans LLP

EPI Liverpool

Partner - EPI Liverpool

Emlyn Williams is a partner and employment lawyer with Weightmans LLP, in the EPI team based in Liverpool. Emlyn heads up the Healthcare Employment Team nationally.

He has 35 years’ experience in all aspects of employment law.

Emlyn is recognised as a ‘strong advocate’ in Legal 500 and regularly represents clients in both the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

He specialises in all aspects of employment law, with interests in whistleblowing, discrimination, MHPS, SOSR cases, and TUPE. He regularly advises on complex reorganisation projects, sensitive discrimination cases, and high-profile issues concerning senior managers and Board members, including dismissals. Legal 500 also describes Emlyn as ‘highly regarded for his work on whistleblowing and discrimination matters.’

Feedback for Emlyn and his team includes:

‘What sets Emlyn, and his team apart is their user friendly, supportive, honest and outcome driven approach.’

Emlyn also has a strong track-record in delivering innovative training programmes. He regularly undertakes bespoke in-house training for NHS clients, ACAS, CIPD and other professional groups.

Feedback for Emlyn’s training sessions includes; ‘The best online training I have attended,’‘

‘A real eye opener – very clear about what needs to be done and how’, ‘Engaging and informative as always. Will be pinching some of the content for our in-house training’, ‘Really did enjoy the session. Very informative, delivered in an engaging manner, inclusive of everyone’, and ‘Brilliant, informative, engaging session’.

Emlyn was President of Liverpool Law Society from 2014 to 2015.

Away from the law, Emlyn was a Trustee of the Liverpool city centre -based art gallery and charity, FACT, from 2015 to 2021.

He has been a volunteer at Glastonbury Festival, in the recycling team, for over 10 years.

He has also recently, in association with a specialist NHS Trust in Liverpool, become involved in the Liverpool Chapter of Citizens UK, a charity which seeks to empower local communities to develop their voice, leadership and develop the power and strategy to make real change.

On 1 October 2025 Emlyn became a Trustee of Parkhaven Trust, a charitable NHS organisation based in Liverpool - https://www.parkhaven.org.uk/