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Caspar Glyn KC
Position
Caspar is an expert in the employment relationship, contractual (including injunctive relief) and regulatory sports’ disputes and other linked contractual / commercial claims including civil fraud and fiduciaries.
He advises on contentious disputes and is a trial lawyer with a national reputation – representing employers when facing mass claims, those of legal principle or those affecting reputation and bringing mass claims for employees.
He has a busy and flourishing appellate practice, with judgments from the Supreme Court in 2022 on the accrual of holiday pay (Harpur), in 2021 to his challenges to the calculation of the national minimum wage for workers required either to work at home and or to sleep at work (Mencap) and in 2018 the Supreme Court implied a new term into all contracts of employment as to notice (Haywood) as well as, in an earlier case, accepting his arguments as to consultation obligations (UCU). In 2022 the Court of Appeal Appeal accepted his arguments allowing gig economy workers to carry over both untaken and unpaid leave until the end of their employment (Pimlico No2) and in 2019 he appeared before the Court of Appeal as lead counsel in three leading cases: constructive dismissal and suspension (Lambeth v Agoreyo), Agency workers (Kocur v Royal Mail) and part-time / zero hours holiday pay (Harpur). He is a trained mediator, carries out investigations for organisations, prosecutes and defends in disciplinary hearings, is experienced in sports’ arbitrations in all roles as an advocate, Arbitrator and Chairman.
Caspar remains a trial lawyer in cases of importance and or high value.
Caspar has become an acknowledged expert on the impact of Covid on the employment relationship including vaccination.
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Career
Call 1992, Silk 2012, Recorder of Crown Court 2018, Deputy High Court Judge 2019
Languages
Restaurant French, bar room Spanish.
Memberships
Vice Chair Employment Lawyers Association 2022-24, Chair Legislative / Policy Committee Employment Lawyers Association 2020-22 & Chair Industrial Law Society 2013-2015.
Education
Manchester University (LLB Hons).
Leisure
Qualified Rugby Union referee and coach, Chelsea Football Club, skiing.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Caspar Glyn KC –Cloisters ‘A powerhouse in the tribunal. He strikes fear into the hearts of opposing counsel as he is so sharp and on top of his brief. A silk with an impressive level of gravitas.’
Cloisters ‘has an excellent employment law offering‘. The ‘very strong‘ team is ‘incredibly knowledgeable‘ and has an excellent track record for advising across the full spectrum of employment law matters. Discrimination cases form a key pillar of the practice, and members report an uptick in equal pay claims as well as undertaking larger volumes of sensitive investigations. Schona Jolly KC and Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick represented the applicant before the European Court of Human Rights in Buttet v UK, which considered the extent to which the law of state immunity can prevent foreign nationals from bringing proceedings against their own governments in the British courts. In another matter, Caspar Glyn KC and Adam Ohringer successfully acted for an employer before the Employment Tribunal in a claim concerning the dismissal of care home employees who declined COVID-19 vaccinations. Key growth for the set includes Sheryn Omeri KC and Akua Reindorf KC taking silk in March 2023, and Andrew Watson joined the team in June 2023.