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Nigel Porter

020 7632 8500 nigel.porter@11kbw.com

Position

Experienced specialist in all areas of individual and collective employment law litigation in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and appellate courts, encompassing all statutory employment rights (for example unfair dismissal, redundancy, all areas of discrimination, whistle-blowing, collective consultation and transfers of undertaking) and contractual employment disputes (including wrongful dismissal, deductions from wages and contractual construction), as well as substantial experience acting for both employers and employees in claims of unlawful competition by employees (including ‘garden leave’ injunctions, springboard injunctions, enforcement of post-termination restraints, misuse of confidential information, breach of fiduciary duty and related economic torts, and in claims for damages and accounts of profit arising from unlawful competition). Advisory work includes all of the above areas in both the public and private sectors, for both employers and employees. Relevant reported cases include: Adams and others v British Airways CA; Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and others CA; Davy International v Tazzyman and others CA; Admiral Management Services Ltd v Para-Protect Europe Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 2722; Middlesbrough BC v TGWU and others[2002] IRLR 332; Health Development Agency v Parish [2004] IRLR 500; Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and Others (Court of Appeal); Middlesbrough BC v TGWU and Others [2002] IRLR 332 EAT; Admiral Management Services Ltd v Para-Protect Europe Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 2722; Stevenson v Atos Origin IT Services Ltd UKEAT/0213/11/CEA; Abercrombie v Aga Rangemaster Ltd UKEAT/0099/12/SM.

Career

Fellow and lecturer in law Churchill College, Cambridge 1989-94, Director of Studies in law Churchill College 1991-94, Newton Trust lecturer Cambridge University 1993-94; called to Middle Temple 1994; joined chambers 1995; author of various articles ‘Cambridge Law Journal’; contributor of chapter ‘Civil Procedure’ (Sweet & Maxwell 1994); editor Butterworths ‘Local Government Law’; contributor of nine chapters ‘Tolley’s Employment Handbook’.

Languages

Working knowledge French.

Education

Park View School; Robinson College, Cambridge (1987 MA Law; 1988 LLM 1st); Inns of Court School of Law.