Irwin Mitchell‘s full-service practice has noted capabilities in high-value and complex tribunal claims while also providing clients with day-to-day employee relations advice, such as technical advice around holiday pay, immigration issues, and IR35 mandates. Team head Jenny Arrowsmith also leads the specialist national education sector team; she advises on strategic issues impacting the sector. Padma Tadi-Booth heads up the commercial employment offering in Leeds and specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment and business immigration matters.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team are knowledgeable and takes the time to understand our particular needs.’

  • ‘Padma Tadi-Booth is excellent. She is always quick to come back with advice.'

  • ‘The team is polite, focused, and keen to assist with issues, and they always get back to me promptly.'

  • ‘As well as exceptional employment knowledge, they turn this into pragmatic commercial advice.'

  • ‘Padma Tadi-Booth is very informative, helpful, and practical in supporting clients, whatever the situation.'

Key clients

  • Association of Colleges
  • Capita PLC
  • Colosseum Dental
  • Costa Coffee
  • DAS
  • ERS Medical
  • Ed Lounge Limited
  • Rose Learning Trust
  • Headway Group (National Brain Injury Association)
  • Bradford College

Work highlights

  • Advised over 350 employees working for a large public sector employer on the terms and effect of their settlement agreements over the space of three months.
  • Supporting the Association of Colleges and its members on an employment law helpline and advising multiple colleges on trade union disputes, holiday pay and other issues.
  • Successfully defended a complex maternity discrimination claim.

Lawyers

Practice head

Padma Tadi-Booth; Jenny Arrowsmith