Employment Law

The firm is able to offer a high level of expertise in all areas of employment law and has particular involvement in the following:

• Employment Tribunal representation
• Redundancy practice and procedure
• Unfair dismissal
• Trade Union Law
• Sex, race & disability discrimination
• Employment / equal pay contracts
• Service agreements
• Restrictive covenants
• Transfer of undertaking regulations
• Parental leave legislation

Defamation

We are one of the few practices outside London to offer specialist advice in this field. The allied subjects of malicious falsehood and contempt proceedings are also dealt with.

Regular advice is given to newspapers across the North West of England and close contacts are maintained with specialist practitioners at the Bar.

This area of law often involves threatened action for injunctions. Two senior lawyers in the firm cover this field ensuring availability of advice at short notice and speed of response where litigation is threatened or commenced.