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James is an Associate Director at ESP Solicitors with over 15 years’ experience in employment law.
James advises a wide range of private and public sector clients, including in financial services, biotechnology, hospitality, health care and the NHS, and private equity.
He has extensive experience in all aspects of employment law, including employment tribunal litigation (often involving discrimination career loss claims), the enforcement of post-termination restrictions, remuneration schemes and employee incentive plans, TUPE transfers and the employment aspects of outsourcing arrangements, and corporate reorganisations and redundancies.
James also advises on data protection and privacy and has experience extensive experience of workplace, private and judicial mediations. He provides bespoke training to our clients in many areas of employment law and practice.
Examples of James’ work include:
- defending a healthcare provider in a claim by a former employee alleging the misuse of private information, breach of common law duty of care, and breach of data protection legislation
- an HMRC investigation into NMW compliance at the hotel and leisure subsidiary of a Premier League football club
- providing strategic and day to day advice in relation to a large scale collective redundancy exercise.
James has advised on and managed a broad spectrum of employment matters, including: Defending an unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and whistleblowing claim with a ten week hearing and involving complex Polkey, psychiatric injury, and mitigation issues Defending a High Court breach of contract claim brought by the former Chief Economist of a global mining company for payment of a bonus claimed to be in excess of £500k Advising on a team move of 20 literary agents and their establishment of an agency in competition with their former employer The employment aspects of a $500mn acquisition of a unionised steel plant Aan HMRC investigation into NMW compliance at the hotel and leisure subsidiary of a Premier League football club He also has experience of workplace, private and judicial mediation, and provides bespoke training to our clients in many areas of employment law.
