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Keith Bryant KC

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Work Department

Pensions, Employment

Position

Barrister specialising in Pensions and employment. Recent cases include Britvic Pension Plan and Britvic PLC v Britvic Pensions Limited and Mr Simon Mohun [2020] EWHC 118 (CH); Carter v Chief Constable of Essex and another [2020] EWHC 77 (QB); Waterford Foods (UK) Group Pension Scheme (December 2019); Re ColArt Pension Scheme [2019] EWHC 3081 (Ch), [2020] PLR 3; R (Carter) v Chelmsford Crown Court and another [2019] EWHC 1484 (Admin), [2019] ICR 1470; Williams v Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme Trustees [2018] UKSC 65, [2019] 1 WLR 93, [2019] 2 All ER 1031, [2019] ICR 230, [2019] IRLR 306, [2019] PLR 11; Ibrahim v HCA International Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 2007; Williams v Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme Trustees [2018] UKSC 65, [2019] 1 WLR 93, [2019] 2 All ER 1031, [2019] ICR 230, [2019] IRLR 306, [2019] PLR 11; Ibrahim v HCA International Ltd [2019] IRLR 690; Gunny v Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation and ors [2018] UKEAT/0241/17/DA; Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme Trustees v Williams [2017] EWCA Civ 1008, [2018] ICR 233, [2017] IRLR 882.

Career

Keith Bryant QC was called to the bar in 1991 and took silk in 2013.

His wide experience includes advising and acting for commercial and public sector organisations, trustees, government departments and agencies, individuals and unions.

His practice is focused on pensions law and employment law and the areas of overlap between the two. He is also increasingly involved in cases with a financial services aspect.

Keith has been recommended by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for pensions and employment law for many years with Legal 500 stating that he “brings a very wide range of expertise and experience to his advice, and his ability to deal with both complex employment and pensions matters is invaluable.”

Keith is regularly instructed in the High Court (Chancery and Queen’s Bench Divisions, including Commercial Court and Administrative Court), the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Appellate Courts, both in England and Wales and also in Northern Ireland. He has been involved in a number of matters before the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator, the Security Vetting Appeals Panel, the Pensions Ombudsman and other specialist tribunals.

Keith has extensive experience of mediation and arbitration proceedings, both as advocate and as mediator. He also undertakes internal disciplinary and grievance investigations for a number of clients. He is able to accept instructions on a direct access basis.

Keith writes and lectures regularly on pension, employment and other commercial topics. He is co-author of National Security, Law, Practice and Procedure (OUP, 2021).

Keith sits as a fee-paid employment judge. He also has security vetting to Developed Vetting level.

Keith is a Head of Chambers (Head of the Business Team).

Memberships

• Association of Pension Lawyers
• Commercial Bar Association
• Employment Lawyers Association
• Employment Law Bar Association
• Financial Services Lawyers Association
• European Circuit
• Industrial Law Society
• Registered Member of the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre
• Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Panels of the LCIA-DIFC

Education

King’s School, Rochester; Clare College, Cambridge (1986 BA Hons); King’s College, Cambridge (1989 Dip Comp Sci).

Leisure

Singing, skiing, walking, twins.