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Simon Forshaw KC
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)).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(2024 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Forshaw KC – 11KBW ‘Simon has a razor-sharp intellect that he brings to every case. He deploys his knowledge masterfully, and manages to bring judges with him carefully but convincingly.’
11KBW is ‘a leading set for employment work‘. The team has been kept busy handling large-scale equal pay claims, high-profile industrial relations cases, discrimination matters and whistleblowing claims, to name a few areas of instruction. The ‘authoritative‘ Sean Jones KC handles the full gamut of employment law matters, and Richard Leiper KC is ‘the Rolls Royce standard‘. Recent highlights include the ‘highly impressive‘ Daniel Stilitz KC leading Hannah Slarks for the Department for Business and Trade in Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer, a case heard by the Supreme Court concerning if employees who take part in industrial action can be subjected to disciplinary action short of dismissal; the case concerned a care home worker who was suspended (and therefore not receiving overtime pay), but not dismissed, by her employer. Among the juniors, the ‘exceptional‘ Sophie Belgrove has ‘a deep understanding of all aspects of employment law‘. Amy Rogers KC, Simon Forshaw KC and Judy Stone KC were all elevated to silk in March 2024.