Director

Sarah is an employment law and litigation expert with over 26 years of experience in employment law. She began her career as an advocate for an employment law consultancy and has since worked as an advisor for several reputable regional UK law firms.

Sarah Dillon

Director of Legal & ER Advisory

Partners

Chris MacNaughton

Senior Lawyer and Head of Legal Services

Chris has over 20 years of experience in employment law. He has extensive knowledge of all aspects of employment law and advises large, blue chip organisations across all areas employment practice and industrial relations. He is a highly experienced and successful advocate with vast experience of complex, multi-day discrimination, whistleblowing,...

James Davies

Partner

James is a Partner at ESP Solicitors with 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...

Nina Robinson

Partner

Nina is an accomplished employment solicitor with experience at leading UK law firms and expertise across a wide range of employment law topics, including discrimination, TUPE, and restrictive covenants. Initially qualifying as a corporate solicitor in 2005, Nina has practised employment law exclusively for over 15 years, providing invaluable and...

Nathan Millard

Partner

Nathan is a Partner at ESP Solicitors and has over 30 years of experience. He has extensive experience working with large and complex organisations in both the public and private sectors, advising on a full range of employment law issues. While Nathan practices in all areas of employment law, he...

Lisa Harris

Partner

Lisa is a Partner at ESP Solicitors and has over 25 years of experience in employment law. She has extensive knowledge of all aspects of employment law and advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare and education (both public and private), agronomy, creative industries, charities, and public...

Associate Directors

Charlotte Ashton

Associate Director and Head of Immigration

Charlotte has over 15 years of experience, specialising in both employment law and business immigration. She works with a diverse range of private businesses across sectors such as hospitality, financial services, housebuilding, education, and care. Charlotte advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, providing tailored guidance to decision makers...

Charlotte Morris

Associate Director

Charlotte is an Associate Director at ESP Solicitors with over 15 years of experience handling a diverse and complex caseload, with a focus on the retail and hospitality, transport and logistics, and manufacturing sectors. She also has significant experience in the education sector, not only advising clients but also providing...

Colin Henney

Associate Director

Colin is an Associate Director at ESP Solicitors with over 30 years of employment law experience. He previously established and led a nationally recognised employment team for a major regional firm and was an ACAS trainer for many years. Colin has appeared in numerous cases before employment tribunals and the...

Associates

Daniel Rawcliffe

Associate

Daniel is an Associate employment solicitor who qualified in 2016. He has experience advising business clients on unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, restrictive covenants, long term sickness absence, disciplinaries and grievances. He has worked with clients of all structures and sizes in different sectors including hospitality and leisure, manufacturing, retail and...

Katharine Sherratt

Associate

Katharine qualified as a solicitor in 2006 at a leading UK law firm and has specialised in employment law ever since working exclusively for employer clients. In 2012, Katharine took up a role in a large public sector employer as an in-house solicitor and worked there for over 12 years....

William Lane

Principal Employment Law Advisor and Solicitor

William is a Scottish-qualified solicitor with ten years of post-qualification experience. He has specialised in employment law since his qualification and is accredited as a specialist by the Law Society of Scotland. William’s principal area of expertise is Employment Tribunal litigation, and he represents a diverse range of clients—both public...

Sarah James

Associate

Sarah is a commercially-focused employment law and employee relations expert with over 25 years of experience in the field. She is skilled in both contentious and non-contentious employment law and has a proven track record of successfully representing clients in complex employment disputes, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, and whistleblowing cases....

Julie Stockton

Associate

Julie has over 15 years of experience practicing exclusively in Employment Law. She has experience acting for Claimants and Respondents, including work in-house at one of the largest trade unions in the country giving her a unique insight into how claims are managed for both parties. Julie has a particular...

Fiona Chadwick

Associate

Fiona has specialised in employment law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2002, primarily representing employers. She has extensive experience from her time as a senior lawyer at a prominent regional firm in Manchester, where she advised businesses across various sectors, from SMEs to large corporations. Fiona is proficient in...

Alexandra Scarfe

Associate

Alex is an Associate at ESP Solicitors with over six years of experience in employment law. She specialises in all aspects of employment law and has experience advising on disciplinary matters, grievances, redundancy situations, performance management, and managing sickness absence. Alex has represented clients in employment tribunals, often handling complex...

Solicitors

Raff Hussain

Solicitor - Immigration

Raff qualified as a Solicitor in 2022. He initially qualified as a personal injury specialist however, retrained in personal immigration/business immigration law. Raff has 3 years of immigration experience. Raff advises on all aspects of immigration law. He can assist a business in obtaining a sponsorship license, advise on how...

Dan Rawstorne

Solicitor

Dan is an employment solicitor (11yrs PQE) with wide-ranging expertise, across both the public and private sector. He has advised a broad range of clients most commonly HR professionals on employee relations issues and strategic projects. Dan is an enthusiastic trainer and presenter, evidenced by extensive teaching and training experience...

Sophia Goodall

Solicitor

Sophia joined ESP Solicitors in 2024 as a newly qualified employment solicitor. Positions held prior to qualification included managing a team of paralegals at a transatlantic law firm on high volume projects such as e-disclosure, subject access requests (SARs) and commercial contracts for national retailers and banking clients. At ESP,...

Paralegal

Taryn Soanes

Paralegal

Taryn is a Paralegal at ESP Solicitors and has been with the firm for over ten years. She has extensive experience in employment law issues and employment tribunal rules of procedure. Taryn also leads the organisation of external training events for clients. As a key contact for our Schools...

Operations Team

Leanne Dunning

Operations Administrator

Leanne joined ESP Solicitors at the start of February 2024 as an Operations Administrator. Prior to this role, she worked as a Client Services Advisor for a law firm and has been in the legal industry for the past six years. Leanne enjoys working as part of a team and...

Caroline Spencer

Legal Secretary

Caroline joined ESP Solicitors in May 2022 as a Legal Secretary and the first point of contact for clients. Prior to this role, she worked as a Medical Secretary for the NHS, managing interactions with medical professionals, patients, and medical referrals. Caroline has thrived in her new legal environment, enjoying...

Rebecca Ellis

Operations Executive

Rebecca joined esphr in January 2023 as a Legal Support Administrator. Before this role, she worked as a Project Manager for a renewable energy company, managing a variety of projects, including those for churches and schools. Rebecca thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys the variety her role offers.

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Ellie Leyshon

Client Manager

Ellie joined esphr in January 2024 bringing extensive experience in client management and business development. Prior to this role, she worked for the commercial arm of a gender equality charity, where she assisted senior HR professionals with their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and provided strategic solutions. This experience...

Mark Shannon-Little

Operations Team Leader

Mark joined esphr in April 2024 as the Operations Team Leader. Previously, he spent over 25 years as a practice manager in various law firms, handling HR matters, ensuring Solicitors Regulation Authority compliance, and overseeing the smooth running of operations and departments within these organisations. He enjoyed the diversity of...

Statutory Directors

Please see our statutory directors

Christopher Diddams, Gavin Snell, Gary Jones and Nathan Millard

Team

Sarah Dillon

Partners

Chris MacNaughton

Associate Directors

Charlotte Ashton

Associates

Daniel Rawcliffe

Solicitors

Raff Hussain

Paralegal

Taryn Soanes

Operations Team

Leanne Dunning

Statutory Directors

Please see our statutory directors

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