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Employment

Jack Feeny

Jack Feeny

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No5 Barristers’ Chambers remains a ‘go-to chambers for employment work’ in the Midlands ’with quality counsel at all levels’. ‘Silk in the making’ Mugni Islam-Choudhury mainly acts for large institutional employers such as NHS trusts, charities, and schools, and is noted particularly for his experience handling whistleblowing, grievance, and disciplinary investigations. He leads the team, with discrimination, whistleblowing, and TUPE specialist Jack Feeny deputising. Feeny recently appeared in the Court of Appeal on behalf of the claimants in Clark and Bell v Chief Constables of Derbyshire & West Midlands Police & Home Secretary, with the appeal considering whether the Employment Tribunal had jurisdiction to consider discrimination complaints relating to the policy injury benefit scheme following claims by two retired police officers that the scheme was discriminatory against people with their specific disabilities.
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Position

Jack is a specialist employment practitioner and acts on behalf of claimants and respondents. He has a broad practice encompassing unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal and breach of contract claims and he specialises in complex claims involving discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE, and trade union disputes. He also acts in professional discipline proceedings. Jack is regularly instructed to act on behalf of FTSE-100 companies and international corporations in retail, manufacturing, logisitcs, hospitality, sport, leisure and energy. He also has a busy public sector practice, acting on behalf of local authorities and NHS Trusts. Jack has significant experience in industrial disease claims, including: asbestos litigation, noise-induced hearing loss; vibration white finger; COSHH claims; carbon monoxide poisoning; and repetitive strain injuries. Jack is a specialist practitioner in respect of noise-induced hearing loss. He is frequently instructed to advise and appear in such claims and has a detailed knowledge of the common issues that arise, particularly in respect of limitation and causation. He is happy to accept instructions on a CFA where appropriate. Jack is also regularly involved in asbestos litigation and is instructed to advise, draft statements of case and appear at hearings in such claims. He often appears in the specialist mesothelioma list in the High Court. He has acted in multi-track trials, taken evidence on commision in living claims and represented parties at coroner’s inquests. He has acted in a number of cases for defendants where exposure and causation has been challenged in asbestosis and asbestos-induced lung cancer claims based on histology evidence.

Career

Called 2005; Inner. Before practising as a barrister Jack worked as a solicitor in the industrial disease team at Berrymans Lace Mawer where he specialised in high-value/complex asbestos related litigation.

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