Matthew Smith

Practice:

Employment                                                                                                                                                                         Costs

 

Profile

Matthew is recommended for employment law in the Legal 500.

He deals with common law contractual disputes, especially those related to employment, for example disputes concerning restrictive covenants.

His work was for may years largely insurance funded work.  As a result Matthew has substantial experience advising and respresenting large employers both in respect of disputes with individuals and multiple claims, such as those for protective awards.  He has effectively become standing employment counsel to a number of organisations.

Other work has involved internal employment disputes, for example, advising local authorities on internal disciplinary proceedings at directorate level, advising on TUPE in contracting out matters, advising on disputes over local authority car mileage allowances and advising in partnership with other members of chambers where there is a cross over with local government law.

Over the last few years Matthew has been repeatedly required to provide advice and representation to local authority employers and unions with respect to large scale multiple part time pension claims and other equal pay claims.

Recommendations:

Legal 500 2007:
"has a good following"

Memberships:

Employment Law Bar Association

 

Panels:

Disability Rights Commission

 

Career & Education:

University:  Cambridge (Trinity Hall)

Degree:      MA

Called:        1991 (Lincoln's Inn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Smith

Year of Call:  1991

Specialises In:
Employment & Costs

Clerked by:
Stephen Loxton

 

 

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