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Grace Nicholls
Work Department
Employment and Discrimination.
Position
Grace Nicholls is an employment specialist with a national practice in all areas of the field.
She has been ranked as a Rising Star in Legal 500 and Up and Coming Barrister in Chambers and Partners 2023.
Before coming to the Bar, she gained extensive experience in Employment Law working for almost two years in the London offices of a prestigious employment team and a second notable law firm. She worked within small teams with partners and senior associates servicing clients including FTSE 100 companies, hedge funds and international insurance companies.
Grace Nicholls acts for Claimants and Respondents and accepts instructions in all areas of employment law.
She has appeared in tribunals (at preliminary and final hearings) nationally involving issues such as unfair dismissal (including constructive unfair dismissal), TUPE claims (including failure to inform and consult), discrimination (including direct and indirect discrimination, discrimination arising from disability, failure to make reasonable adjustments, harassment, victimisation and equal pay), unlawful deductions from wages, commission issues, redundancy, whistleblowing and substantive jurisdictional issues. Grace’s practice also includes High Court injunctive work including issues concerning restrictive covenants.
She has been instructed by a wide range of clients, ranging from individuals to local authorities, recruitment agencies, and companies in the leisure, hospitality, tourism, retail and pharmaceutical industries. She also has experience acting for charitable organisations.
She has a busy practice drafting pleadings and providing written advice at various stages of litigation on a range of issues including advice on prospects and quantum. She also has experience drafting Notices of Appeal to the EAT.
Grace also has an appellate practice and enjoyed recent success in the Employment Appeals Tribunal.
Grace acted in cases involving the following allegations:
2022
K v GG and ors [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 4-day unfair dismissal claim
D v FC [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 4-day disability discrimination and unfair dismissal claim
C v AI [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 5-day unfair dismissal claim
O v NT [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 3-day whistleblowing, constructive dismissal and victimisation claim
J v NT [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 2-day unfair dismissal claim
N v WF [2022]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 2-day race/religious belief discrimination claim
S v ML [2022]
Successfully represented the Claimant in a 3-day unfair dismissal/redundancy claim
W v FRC [2022]
Successfully represented the Claimant in a 3-day unfair dismissal/redundancy claim
2021
M and ors v WW and ors [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 2-day claim on employer identity
S v DL [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 4-day disability discrimination and unfair dismissal claim
L v ML [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 1-day unfair dismissal claim
L v SVM [2021]
Successfully represented the Claimant in a 2-day wrongful dismissal claim
P v AUL [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 3-day disability discrimination claim
H v WSM [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 1-day claim involving substantive time issues
S v KE [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 5-day constructive dismissal claim
F v SBM [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 3-day sex, race and sexual orientation discrimination claim
C v MC [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 1-day unfair dismissal claim
F v SS [2021]
Successfully represented the Claimant in a 1-day wrongful dismissal claim
A v A [2021]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a 6-day whistleblowing claim.
2020
H v ABS [2020]
Successfully represented the Respondent in an unfair dismissal claim
H v PCL [2020]
Successfully represented the Claimant in a health and safety dismissal and breach of contract claim
A v DL [2020]
Successfully represented the Respondent in an unfair dismissal claim
C v JT [2020]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a disability discrimination claim
M v SC [2020]
Successfully represented the Respondent in a whistleblowing and ordinary unfair dismissal claim.
Career
Year of call 2015
Memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
Education
- LLB Law, Durham University
- BPTC, Kaplan Law School
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > South Eastern Circuit > Employment
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1Grace Nicholls –3PB ‘Grace is a considered and tactful barrister who builds a good rapport with clients and witnesses to put them at ease. Her advocacy is well thought out, prepared and compelling.’
A ‘first-class set’ 3PB has a ‘very good depth of experienced counsel in all areas of employment law’ and garners praise for providing ‘an effective and beneficial service’. Karen Moss successfully represented Boots in claims of unfair dismissal and disability discrimination raised by an employee of the company and is known for ‘providing excellent objectivity, getting into the nub of the issue and demonstrating her ability to reassure nervous witnesses’. Rising star Grace Nicholls is a ‘well prepared, responsive and skilled advocate with good client skills’ and successfully defended a respondent in a case concerning a dismissal that was alleged to be unlawful on TUPE grounds.