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Littleton Chambers Offices
Littleton Chambers
3 KING'S BENCH WALK NORTH, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7HR
England
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Mr Gavin Mansfield KC KC
Position
Head of Littleton Chambers. Practice covers employment and discrimination law, partnership disputes and commercial litigation. Areas of practice include team moves, contractual disputes (wrongful dismissal, bonus claims, restrictive covenants and garden leave), breach of confidence and fiduciary duties, all aspects of statutory employment law, shareholder and joint venture disputes.
Career
Called 1992 (Middle Temple). QC 2013. Regular lecturer and writer on employment law topics.
Memberships
Employment Law Bar Association (past Chairman), Employment Lawyers Association, Industrial Law Society, COMBAR, Association of Partnership Practitioners; Bencher, Middle Temple.
Education
Nottingham High School; Jesus College, Cambridge.
Personal
Editor of Blackstone’s ‘Employment Law Practice’; contributor to Bloch & Brearley “Employment Covenants and Confidential Information” (4ed 2018).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Gavin Mansfield KC – Littleton Chambers ‘Gavin is a leading barrister in his field. Gavin provides commercial, pragmatic advice and combines that with a collegiate approach. Gavin has a good way with clients and gains their confidence from the outset.’
Littleton Chambers covers a full range of partnership issues, including those that intersect with employment. Within partnership disputes, members are instructed by financial and professional services LLPs, alongside other areas of law including discrimination and whistleblowing, both domestically and internationally. David Reade KC covers company, partnership and LLP disputes, while head of chambers Gavin Mansfield KC has been involved in Armstrong and others v Taylor and others, a High Court claim between members in an investment management business, where the claimant group claims the managing partner and a second group of partners conspired to remove the claimant group’s influence to siphon away profits from them. Mohinderpal Sethi KC handles domestic and cross-border partnership and LLP disputes, and James Bickford Smith is noted for his expertise acting for individual LLP members in exit disputes.
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Gavin Mansfield KC – Littleton Chambers ‘A silk who is willing to roll his sleeves up and is extremely commercial. He has a style judges love.’
Littleton Chambers is ‘a pre-eminent employment set with a wealth of talent at all levels‘. Among the silks, Gavin Mansfield KC‘s ‘legal knowledge is second to none‘, and has an excellent track record in advising on complex team move cases and business protection matters. David Reade KC is well known for his strength in handling equal pay litigation; Jeremy Lewis KC ‘has a breadth of knowledge of employment law that is unrivalled‘; and Nicholas Siddall KC is ‘a charming advocate, able to win over judges‘. In a recent work highlight, Adam Solomon KC, Niran de Silva KC, Sophia Berry and Charlotte Davies appeared in Jump Trading International Ltd v Couture and Verition Advisors (UK Partners) LLP, a business protection case involving the enforceability of a variable non-compete covenant – one which purported to grant the former employer discretion to determine a period between zero and twelve months- by means of an injunction. At the junior end of chambers, Lucy Bone handles a high volume of complex whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and Matthew Sheridan stands out as ‘a worthy opponent of any silk at the employment law Bar‘. The group was bolstered by the arrival of Tim Goodwin in November 2023.