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Brian Napier KC

020 7827 4000 bn@cloisters.com

Position

Practises employment and discrimination law in England and Scotland (Faculty of Advocates). Cases of note include: Powdrill and Atkinson v Watson [1995] IRLR 269 HL; Wilson v Associated Newspapers [1995] IRLR 258 HL; Meade and Baxendale v British Fuels Ltd [1998] IRLR 706 HL; Archibald v Fife Council [2004] IRLR 651 HL; Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission [2006] IRLR 195 HL; Jackson v Computershare Investor Services plc [2008] IRLR 70, CA; Hewage v Grampian Health Board[2012] IRLR 870, SC; Doogan and Wood v Greater Glasgow Health Board [2014] UKSC 68; Bear Scotland Ltd. & Ors. v Fulton [2015] ICR 221, EAT and University and College Union v The University of Stirling (Scotland) [2015] UKSC 26.

Career

Called 1991; Middle Temple; advocate in practice at the Scottish Bar 1995; QC (Scotland) 2002; previously a lecturer in law at Cambridge University (Queen’s College) and a professor of law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Contributing editor: ‘Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law’ (Butterworths) and ‘Transfer of Undertakings’ (Sweet & Maxwell). Founding contributor ‘Butterworths’ Employment Law: Practice, Procedure and Precedents’ (5th ed 2007); ppointed by States of Jersey to conduct inquiry into the dismissal of a senior police officer (2010); prior to taking up full-time work at the Bar, acted as expert appointed by the International Labour Office and produced reports on employment law in Tanzania, Uganda and Bangladesh.

Languages

French (fluent – Visiting Professor, Universities of Paris 1 and 2, 1980-81).

Memberships

ACAS panel of arbitrators; Working Group for Reform of Employment Tribunal Rules (chaired by Mr Justice Underhill); ACAS panel of arbitrators.

Education

George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh (1971 LLB Hons, 1st); University of Cambridge (1976 MA and PhD).