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Alice Mayhew KC KC
Position
Alice Mayhew KC is a specialist in employment litigation and advisory work involving restraint of trade, whistleblowing, all types of discrimination, equal pay, business transfers, wrongful and unfair dismissal, industrial action and breach of contract claims. She has extensive experience of acting for a wide variety of clients such as airlines, banks, local authorities, media, telecommunications and police forces as well as senior employees. Undertakes multi day complex cases before the employment tribunal, county court and high court as well as all levels of appeal (often being instructed for the first time at appellate level).
For more information on Alice’s practice and latest case highlights, please visit her full Devereux profile.
Career
Called 2001, Silk 2022, Inner Temple Major Scholarship, Pegasus Scholarship , Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for Student of the Year and Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Publications: Contributor to Bloomsbury Discrimination Law.
Memberships
ELBA; ELA .
Education
Gordonstoun School; Exeter University (1996 LLB 2(1)); awarded Christina Sachs Memorial Prize for Family Law); Cambridge University (1998 LLM 1st class); Lauterpacht Prize for International Law.
Leisure
Swimming, Yoga and going to the beach in Norfolk.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Alice Mayhew KC – Devereux ‘Alice has a brain the size of a planet, lashings of common sense and a warmth and charm that she deploys to great effect. She is a fantastic advocate, able to find a solution in the most complex of issues, and is articulate and persuasive on her feet.’
Devereux houses a team with ‘strong and well-respected employment expertise‘. Employment litigation remains a key area of instruction for the group, which also continues to advise on high-profile industrial relations matters. Bruce Carr KC is ‘a vastly experienced employment barrister‘, ‘always a reassuring presence for clients‘, and Andrew Burns KC is highly regarded for his ‘particular strength in industrial relations issues‘. The ‘shrewd and capable‘ Alice Mayhew KC is well versed in handling complex cases involving allegations of discrimination and whistleblowing, as well as equal pay claims. Turning to the juniors, Peter Edwards has an established track record in representing claimants and respondents in a wide spectrum of employment law matters, often acting for large banks and financial institutions in claims. Anna Greenley recently appeared before the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Nicol v World Travel and Tourism Council, a case concerning the degree of knowledge a decision maker must have of a whistleblower’s protected disclosure, in order for a claim of dismissal and detriment to be successful. The senior end of the team was bolstered by Christopher Stone KC taking silk in March 2024.