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John Bowers KC
Work Department
Human rights, employment law and public law groups.
Position
Barrister specialising in employment law (individual and collective); discrimination law; pensions law and human rights; cases include: GMC v Michalak in the Supreme Court; ABP v TGWU; Payne v Port of London Authority; Luxmore May v Messenger May Baverstock; McLaren v Home Office; Whitbread v Mills; Wright v BRB; Wood v Cunard Lines Ltd; Hogg v Dover College; Porter v Queens Medical Centre; Gale v Northern General Hospitals; Wilkin and Chapman v Collins; Crosville Ltd v Tracey; Marley UK Ltd v Anderson; R v Secretary of State for Defence ex parte Smith (gay servicemen case); Dunnachie v Hull City Council; R v CAC ex p Kwik Fit plc; Celtec v Astley; Edgar v Met Office; Kuzel v Roche; Blockbuster Entertainment v James; Leisure Employment Services v HMRC; Allen v Newcastle City Council; Anderson v South Tyneside MBC; Hartley v Northumbria Health Care; Abbey National plc v Chagger. Regular appearances in Central Arbitration Committee, European Court of Human Rights and European Court of Justice.
Career
Principal Brasenose College Oxford. Full-time barrister and part-time author; honorary professor, University of Hull; former honorary legal adviser Public Concern at Work; publications include: ‘Law of Strikes and Recognition’; ‘Atkins Court Forms’ section on employment law; ‘Termination of Employment’; ‘The Employment Act 1988’; ‘Bowers on Employment Law’; ‘Textbook on Labour Law’; ‘Transfer of Undertakings’; ‘Employment Tribunal Procedure’; ‘Whistleblowing: The New Law’; ‘Human Rights and Employment Law’; regular lecturer and broadcaster; carries out work for the Bar Pro Bono Unit; and Employment Law Advice Service Project; former chairman of the Employment Appeal
Tribunals Users’ Group; Home Office Task Force on Human Rights; CEDR accredited mediator; past Chair Employment Law Bar Association; former member of Standards Board for England; Deputy High Court and Election Judge.
Memberships
Employment Law Bar Association; ALBA; ELA; Bar Disciplinary Tribunal.
Education
Mathew Humberstone Comprehensive School; Lincoln College, Oxford (BA Jurisprudence 1st).