Bevan Brittan LLP’s Leeds employment offering is led by Jodie Sinclair, with support from Andrew Uttley and Lee Carroll. The team remains a key player in the public sector, advising NHS trusts, housing associations and local authorities on complex employment disputes, whistleblowing claims, and industrial action. Uttley is known for advising on matters involving registered professionals and board-level disputes, while Carroll has additional strength in healthcare-related litigation and business immigration issues.
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‘The team are organised, specialist and pragmatic in giving advice and finding solutions to issues. They have particular expertise in public sector work and apply that to new cases to find practical solutions that align with the particular needs of those organisations.’
‘Bevan Brittan are, in my view, the best solicitors for hospitals defending employment tribunal proceedings.’
Key clients
- South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tyneside Council
Work highlights
Successfully represented Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and another in the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an English nationalist whose beliefs were found not capable of protection as a philosophical belief due to anti-Islamic rhetoric which shared features “with an ideology such as Nazism”.
Practice head
Jodie Sinclair
Other key lawyers
Andrew Uttley; Lee Carroll