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Simon Forshaw KC

020 7632 8500 simon.forshaw@11kbw.com

Position

Specialist in employment, public and commercial law. He has appeared regularly in the employment tribunals, EAT, County Court, High Court (including Administrative Court) and Court of Appeal. Noteworthy cases include: Willoughby v CF Capital Ltd [2011] IRLR 198 (EAT) (concerning the special circumstances exception in relation to unambiguous words of dismissal of an employee); Aon Ltd v JLT Reinsurance Brokers Ltd [2010] IRLR 600 (HC, QBD) (concerning the appropriateness of interim disclosure orders in the context of a team poaching exercise); Booth v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council [2009] EWCA Civ 880 (CA) (concerning the interaction between the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the definition of permanent incapacity in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997); R (Gurung) v Secretary of State for Defence [2008] EWHC 1496 (judicial review action concerning the pension rights of serving and retired Gurkha soldiers); Woodward v Abbey National [2006] 4 All ER 1209 (an appeal in the against the determinations of both the employment tribunal and EAT concerning the rights of whistleblowers after the termination of their contracts of employment; Court of Appeal).

Career

Called 2004; Gray’s Inn.

Languages

French.

Memberships

ELBA; ILS; ELA.

Education

St John’s College, University of Oxford (2000 MA (Oxon)).