Western Circuit
3PB remains the leading set for employment law work on the South Eastern Circuit and offers a ‘wide range of barristers’ with varied experience. Karen Moss has an excellent reputation for being ’calm under pressure, incredibly pragmatic and experienced’. She is regularly instructed by both claimants and respondents in relation to discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and whistleblowing claims, among others. Mark Green’s varied experience encompasses age, disability, and race discrimination claims as well as whistleblowing and redundancy cases. Naomi Webber successfully represented the claimant in Sturgess v Cambridge Country Club, who was found to have been unfairly dismissed following allegations of inappropriate sexual advances made towards colleagues. Grace Nicholls is noted particularly for her recent work in connection with unfair dismissal claims and is widely praised by clients as a ‘strong advocate with great technical skills’.
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Employment and Discrimination.
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Overview
Grace Nicholls acts for Claimants and Respondents and accepts instructions in all areas of employment law.
She has appeared in tribunals (at preliminary and final hearings) nationally involving issues such as unfair dismissal (including constructive unfair dismissal), TUPE claims (including failure to inform and consult), discrimination (including direct and indirect discrimination, discrimination arising from disability, failure to make reasonable adjustments, harassment, victimisation and equal pay), unlawful deductions from wages, commission issues, redundancy, whistleblowing and substantive jurisdictional issues. Grace's practice also includes High Court injunctive work including issues concerning restrictive covenants.
She has been instructed by a wide range of clients, ranging from individuals to local authorities, recruitment agencies, and companies in the leisure, hospitality, tourism, retail and pharmaceutical industries. She also has experience acting for charitable organisations.
She has a busy practice drafting pleadings and providing written advice at various stages of litigation on a range of issues including advice on prospects and quantum. She also has experience drafting Notices of Appeal to the EAT.
Grace has an appellate practice and is available to advise on Interim Relief matters.
Employment and discrimination
Grace Nicholls acts for Claimants and Respondents and accepts instructions in all areas of employment law.
She has appeared in tribunals (at preliminary and final hearings) nationally involving issues such as unfair dismissal (including constructive unfair dismissal), TUPE claims (including failure to inform and consult), discrimination (including direct and indirect discrimination, discrimination arising from disability, failure to make reasonable adjustments, harassment, victimisation and equal pay), unlawful deductions from wages, commission issues, redundancy, whistleblowing and substantive jurisdictional issues. Grace's practice also includes High Court injunctive work including issues concerning restrictive covenants.
She has been instructed by a wide range of clients, ranging from individuals to local authorities, recruitment agencies, and companies in the leisure, hospitality, tourism, retail and pharmaceutical industries. She also has experience acting for charitable organisations.
She has a busy practice drafting pleadings and providing written advice at various stages of litigation on a range of issues including advice on prospects and quantum. She also has experience drafting Notices of Appeal to the EAT.
Grace also has an appellate practice and enjoyed success in the Employment Appeals Tribunal.
Career
Year of call 2015
Memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association
Education
- LLB Law, Durham University
- BPTC, Kaplan Law School
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