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Charles Crow
Work Department
Specialises in employment law, personal injury and costs.
Position
Charles has a growing reputation in the field of employment law having been involved in cases at all levels up to the Court of Appeal, and appearing before the Central Arbitration Committee. Recent cases include several with values exceeding £1 million. He is frequently instructed in internal investigatory and decision-making roles (grievance and disciplinary procedures) and is increasingly involved in High Court injunction applications. He has particular experience in the healthcare, social care, education, housing and banking sectors. He practises, in an advisory capacity, on behalf of both employers and employees. He is a trained mediator.
Charles also specialises in personal injury law, with a focus on the areas of travel litigation, health and safety at work, industrial diseases, and road traffic accident litigation (particularly fraud matters); regularly acting for both claimants and defendants at all stages of the litigation process including drafting and advising. Specialises in costs law, including appellate work.
Career
Called to the Bar 1999; Hardwicke scholarship and Tancred studentship (Lincoln’s Inn).
Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association; Employment Law Association; Birmingham Law Society’s Employment Law Committee; Employment Law Bar Association.
Education
LLB (Hons Exon).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Charles Crow – No5 Barristers’ Chambers ‘Charles is bright and can understand and direct a case very quickly. He has an excellent manner with clients, quickly winning their confidence. He is a fantastic advocate for positioning questions in a way that cuts to the heart of the issue; he is good at reading the correct tone of how to position arguments.’
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is a ‘go-to chambers’ whose members advise across the full spectrum of employment law, including on cases involving unfair dismissal, TUPE transfers, redundancy, unlawful deductions from pay and trade union disputes. Practice head Mugni Islam-Choudhury is ‘commercial, practical and proportionate in his approach’; he acts for employers and employees in cases involving alleged discrimination. Charles Crow has ‘exceptional technical strength and grasp of detail’ and recently represented University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in a race and disability discrimination matter. Helen Barney successfully acted for Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board in a whistleblowing and victimisation claim.