Unfair and Wrongful Dismissal

The law of unfair dismissal is intended to safeguard employees from dismissal without valid or lawful justification. The widespread reach of such provisions has impacted hugely on good industrial relations practice. Members of the employment team provide a specialist advisory and advocacy service to both individual and collective groups of employees as well as employers of all sizes.

Employers are well advised to ensure they have in place bespoke contracts of employment and relevant policies incorporated within those contracts to ensure they are in a position to defend such claims. Members of the team have extensive experience in the drafting of such policies (e.g. redundancy and sickness), together with the formulation of comprehensive employment contracts. The team has extensive experience in the pursuit and defence of claims of unfair dismissal on a collective or individual basis.

Members of the team further have extensive knowledge of costs applications calculated to ensure that any opportunity to recover litigation costs is fully explored.

Instructions are accepted on a direct access and direct professional access basis.

Further specialist areas include:

• Trade Union membership and redundancy (see also collective labour disputes and Trade  Union litigation)
• Health and safety in the workplace
• Discrimination (see also discrimination and equal opportunities Litigation
• Contractual disputes
• Compromise agreements

To view a list of our members who specialise in this area, please click on the drop down menu to the left.