Alex is regularly instructed for the very start of proceedings and is know for his thorough and commercially-minded approach in assessing the matter from grievance all the way to final hearing.
He has appeared, and continues to appear, in multi-day Employment Tribunal disputes particularly covering areas of unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination and TUPE transfers. Alex also has experience in advising on appeal to the EAT and drafting pleadings covering every aspect of employment litigation.
Most recently, Alex appeared in a 5-day sexual orientation discrimination trial in which he was successful in having the claim reduced by £40,000.
Alex has also been successful in acquiring his client approximately £60,000 for a single incident of discrimination (involving multiple acts within it) on the basis of race and sex including injury to feelings, psychiatric harm and loss of earnings.
He has also appeared to in what is thought to be one of the first applications for Interim Relief following imposition of mandatory vaccination for care home workers.
Alex has also regularly lectured and advised on the following areas:
Redundancy and Redundancy Pay
Workers’ Rights
Pregnancy Discrimination
Witness Evidence and Strategy
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