John was called to the Bar in 1996. Since 1997 he has practised exclusively in employment law in London and regional Chambers, and has been cited as a 'Leader in Employment Law' in Chambers & Partners. Regularly instructed on behalf of employers and employee organisations throughout England and Wales, John is a member of the Employment Law Bar Association and the Industrial Law Society.
In recent years he has been involved in a number of reported
appeal cases including: Tait v Redcar and Cleveland Borough
Council, [2008] IRLR ‘suspensions as continuing acts’;
Kettle Produce v Ward [2006] IDS Brief 826 April 2007,
featured in IDS Brief 844, use of comparators in discrimination
cases; Lake v British Transport Police EWCA 2006/2112 the
immunity of Police Disciplinary Tribunals from suit; Collins
v National Trust IDS Brief 803/10, 'exceptionally serious
failures' in PIDA cases to the press; Awotona v South
Tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust, Court of Appeal (the scope of
s. 117(3) ERA 1996 to limit compensation in reinstatement
cases); Commissioner of Inland Revenue & others –v- Post Office
Limited [2003] IRLR 1999, (status of sub postmasters as workers
or independent contractors); GMB v- Hamm IDS Brief 682 (meaning
of reasonable practicability in trade union cases).
Publications include:
Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Local Government Journal, Sweet & Maxwell; The Law of Disability Discrimination, Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries; Equal Pay, Solicitors Journal, July 2004.