David Buckle > gunnercooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

gunnercooke LLP
1 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3ND
England

Work Department

Employment Law

Position

Partner

Career

David is an experienced employment lawyer with specific focus on employment-related issues with unusual legal and factual aspects to them.

He has over 20 years’ experience of all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law including:

  • Representation in Employment Tribunals, County Court, High Court and the Central Arbitration Committee Tribunal in contentious matters.
  • Claims ranging from all types of discrimination, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and whistleblowing, to those involving data protection, transnational and regulatory issues.
  • Advice on the enforcement of restrictive covenants and non-competition clauses.
  • Appeals to the upper Courts and Tribunals in Employment matters.
  • Day-to-day preventative HR employment advice.
  • Drafting of contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures.
  • Advice on consultants and subcontractors, commercial agents and agency workers agreements, IR35 and CIS, the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 and the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
  • Redundancy and restructuring advice.
  • Corporate transactional support including advice on the employment elements of mergers and acquisitions/TUPE transfers.
  • Advice on individual and collective consultation with employees/unions, both locally and trans-nationally involving European Works Councils.
  • Employee benefit work including share schemes (Enterprise Management Incentives, Company Share Option Plans, Employee Benefit Trusts and restricted and phantom share schemes).
  • Data protection and Freedom of Information Act applications.
  • Negotiating settlement agreements/termination packages.
  • Providing in-house training courses on various topics such as data protection and diversity.

Previous Law Firms

  • Greenwoods GRM LLP
  • Laytons LLP
  • Cubism Law
  • BP Collins, Gerrards Cross
  • Magrath & Co, London