Mr James Anderson > Doyle Clayton > Reading, England > Lawyer Profile

Mr James Anderson

0118 959 6839 janderson@doyleclayton.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Employment team, Reading

Position

James has over 20 years’ experience specialising in employment law and deals with a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious matters for both employers, employees, contractors and partners.

He conducts complex and high value discrimination cases in the Employment Tribunal. As well as conducts appeals to the EAT and the Court of Appeal and injunction proceedings in the High Court and overseas.

Business he regularly advises include various FTSE and NASDAQ on the full range of employment law issues including the employment and dismissing of senior managers. Other areas he regularly advises on include :-

• Unfair dismissal claims generally arising from misconduct, capability, redundancy and constructive dismissal;
• Discrimination and equal pay claims which are often complex and sometimes high value;
• Fair dismissal procedures and the particular issues involved in dismissing senior executives;
• High Court injunctions and the protection of confidential information;
• Bonus entitlement and share disputes;
• Compromise agreements, COT3s and settlements;
• TUPE and other employment issues on the purchase/sale of a business.

Career

Where trained: Bower & Bailey Solicitors
Year qualified: 1996

Year made partner in present firm: 2011

Please summarise your professional career (ie: posts, jobs, appointments)

James’s first position as a qualified solicitor was with Bruce Lance & Co in High Wycombe where he started to build a practice specialising in employment law. He moved to Clarkslegal LLP in 2000 where he gained experience with larger corporate clients. James then returned to Oxford to work for Henmans LLP (now Freeths LLP in 2005) where he worked as an associate. He was offered partnership with Henmans but instead joined Doyle Clayton in 2010 where he was made a partner in 2011.

Languages

English

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
ELLINT Employment Labor Lawyers International

Education

Main secondary school attended: Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh.
Universities and colleges attended: St Peters College, University of Oxford.
(degrees and qualifications with years attained): BA(Hons) Jurisprudence 1991, LSF 1994.

Leisure

Shooting, cricket, saling, rugby and mountain walks