Ms Ceri Widdett > Exchange Chambers > Leeds, England > Barrister Profile

Ms Ceri Widdett

0113 203 1970 widdett@exchangechambers.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Employment

Position

Ceri has over 20 years’ experience practising in employment law and personal injury and is a highly sought after advocate, continuously recommended as a leading junior in both Chambers and Partners UK and the Legal 500. She has extensive experience of equality law including sex, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, sexual orientation and discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services. She also undertakes all other aspects of employment law including whistleblowing. She has been instructed to advise and act on behalf of numerous Local Authorities and Unions including the Police Federation and the MPS, and has advised the Football Association on the impact of equality law outside the workplace.

Ceri undertakes all aspects of personal injury work but has a particular specialism in occupational stress at work claims. She further specialises in, Highways Act claims, road traffic accidents, civil motor fraud, defective premises, occupiers’ liability and accidents at work.

Ceri further specialises in regulatory law and has recent experience of appearing before the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health Care Professional Council.

Career

Called 1994; Equality and Human Rights Commission preferred panel of counsel (2011-2013)

Memberships

• Personal Injury Bar Association

Education

• BA (Hons) Keele University (Class II.i, 1993)
• Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School (Very Competent, 1994)
• Wansbrough Willey Hargrave Scholarship, Keele University (1994-1996)