Employment

Sean Jones is someone of formidable intellect and huge emotional wisdom and, as such, is trusted by everyone - courts, opponents and clients alike.

Sean Jones is outstanding. He is extremely bright, but also very practical at the same time, and speaks to clients in a simple and direct way which they understand.

He combines deep knowledge of all areas of employment law, is eloquent and has focused written submissions and crisp oral advocacy that cuts to the quick of the other side's arguments.

His phenomenal gift is making complex concepts understandable. He is such a master of advocacy.

Andrew Edge is a superb barrister with exceptional drafting skills.

Andrew Edge was very good, robust and clear; he was very good all round and easy to work with.

Andrew is an excellent advocate, professional, and on the ball.

Andrew is a preferred junior on simple and complex cases alike.

Andrew is an absolutely excellent senior junior. He is my go-to.

Daniel Stilitz has great experience in appellate advocacy, including in the Supreme Court, and judges are always attentive to his winning, authoritative and persuasive oral advocacy.

Daniel is extremely clear-thinking and able to cut through a lot of noise to input on the strategy.

Daniel is technically outstanding and gives confidence to the client.

Dan is second to none. He is very good with lay clients as well as instructing solicitors. He is responsive and excellent on strategy.

Daniel Stilitz is measured and effective. He is very unflappable, chooses his words carefully, and is very effective. He is very effective in cross-examination and very persuasive.

Jane McCafferty is very good with difficult clients and at being direct. She is a great advocate.

Jane McCafferty is really at the top of her field. She can compare to a surgeon; people are in awe of her, she is super hard-working, and for big cases she is a go-to.

Jane McCafferty is super-smart and really good to work with.

Patrick Halliday is always willing, keen to get stuck in, hands-on, and good on his feet.

Patrick Halliday is an all-round exceptional barrister with extremely acute advocacy skills.

Patrick Halliday is always impressive and completely in control of his cases. Patrick is also excellent with lay clients.

Patrick is very easy to work with, responsive, and an excellent advocate in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Richard Leiper is excellent and a great advocate who knows exactly what the judges want to hear.

Richard Leiper's written and oral advocacy is fluent, persuasive and charming. He manages to express with great clarity the most impenetrable legal problems.

He is very clever, easy to work with, and super-responsive. He is brilliant.

Richard Leiper is just insanely charming, intelligent and brilliant at what he does, and his advocacy skills are second to none.

Simon Devonshire is very good, very talented and capable.

Simon Devonshire is supremely bright and the person to go to for highly technical work.

Simon is very good at teasing the facts out and great at cross-examining. He's a very experienced adviser and gives practical, commercial advice which is important.

Sophie Belgrove is client-friendly and has the ability to absorb a lot of detail.

Sophie Belgrove is calm under pressure. She's very clear in her thought process, good at bringing the judge along with her line of thinking, and has particularly good skill in arguments.

Hannah is a highly talented junior. Her star shines brightly.

Hannah Slarks is very user-friendly and has a good client rapport.

Hannah Slarks is a very good technical lawyer, but she also has a really good instinct for the best judgement and likely outcome.

Michael Lee has a very clear mind and understanding of employment law.

Michael Lee is very smart, committed, and he has excellent judgement. He rolls up his sleeves and gets involved and produces excellent-quality work.

Michael is clear and responsive and draws on his breadth of experience to give persuasive and detailed advice. His natural, relaxed advocacy style finds favour with judges.

Michael Lee is responsive, thoroughly on top of his brief and the relevant law, and a pleasure to work with.

Aileen has provided excellent, detailed advice about complex legal issues and robust advice on strategy. Aileen's approach has been calm and measured, which has been of huge assistance.

Aileen McColgan is a very articulate and unshowy barrister. She is very effective.

Amy provided all-round fantastic service and hugely contributed to the team.

Amy is really empathetic, really sharp, and completely on top of her brief. She is a razor-sharp leader and a surgical advocate.

Amy already has a reputation for her powerful intellect, and her written arguments are a model of clarity and incisiveness.

Anya Proops is an absolute joy to work with. She has the ultimate iron fist in a velvet glove, which is perfect for the discerning client.

She is a class act and has super client skills.

Jamie Susskind's written work and advocacy skills make him a leading light of the future.

Jamie is a technical master and a go-to junior for difficult cases.

Jamie is incredibly smart and user-friendly.

Julian Milford combines incredible intellect with pragmatism and exceptional client service.

Julian Milford is really at the top of his game. He is very bright, incisive and clear.

Julian Milford is hugely intelligent, very strategic, calm, and has a very good bedside manner.

Julian Milford is great with advice, client-friendly, and a strong advocate.

Katherine Eddy's attention to detail is fantastic. She has an analytical way of thinking, is resilient, and stays calm under pressure.

Katherine Eddy has clarity in her written style and is very persuasive.

Katherine is technically fantastic, both in terms of her ability to absorb and process huge volumes of factual information and her legal technical expertise.

His client-handling skills and approachability, together with his ability to explain very complex law in an intelligible manner without ever appearing patronising, make him very popular with clients.

Marcus Pilgerstorfer is as sharp as a tack, a brilliant cross-examiner, and a pleasure to work with.

Marcus Pilgerstorfer builds rapport quickly and provides reasoned, helpful, and insightful advice in what can be highly pressured situations and concerning complex legal issues.

Rupert Paines is really good, has lots of experience, and is very good in commercial employment cases.

Thomas Ogg is calm and measured. He is an excellent analyst and advocate, and he goes above and beyond in terms of work product.

He's very forensic in his approach. He is always calm and analytical.

Tom Ogg is really brilliant, really approachable, and willing to get involved. He is very measured; there are no theatrics and he gets all the points.

Harini is really easy to work with and has good attention to detail.

Judy always adds value with her perspective and ideas. She is responsive and her drafting is very clear.

Judy Stone is commercially astute and legally sharp.

Judy Stone is an excellent advocate on her feet as well as being very able in client management.

Ronnie is the complete, all-round package; he is incisive, professional, approachable, knowledgeable, personable and inspires confidence every step of the way.

Ronnie Dennis is really responsive, supportive and pragmatic.

Ronnie Dennis is a calm and confident advocate who instils confidence.

Simon grasps the issues very fast, provides clear and sensible advice, and always adds value when assisting with correspondence or other documents.

Simon Forshaw is extremely bright, good with clients, and good on his feet.

Simon is excellent to work with. He was responsive, thorough and helpful throughout our case.

Zac is an exceptional barrister whose written work is very tightly drafted. He is an excellent, confident advocate.

Zac Sammour is an impressive advocate who is able to demonstrate an impressive range of cross-examination approaches to fit any situation.

In addition to his great expertise, Nigel brings considerable empathy to the cases he works on.

Ruth is just incredibly user-friendly and very good with clients.

Ruth Kennedy is bright and excellent with clients.

Ruth Kennedy is an excellent barrister. She is intellectually robust, provides a great analysis, and her written advocacy is excellent.

Katherine Taunton is always very well prepared and ready to advise in relation to strategy and approach. She is great with clients and witnesses alike.

Katherine Taunton has judgement decades beyond her year of call - her star is burning bright and rising.

Leo Davidson's drafting is excellent. He is really intelligent and astute, gets to the nub of issues quickly, and wades through nonsense.

Leo Davidson has great legal knowledge, his writing skills are good, and he makes himself available.

Michael's help was invaluable. He was phenomenal, focused, intelligent and thorough.

Michael White is phenomenally hard-working and very bright, with impressive practical judgement and strategic prowess.

Michael is super-bright yet practical. His written work is outstanding.

Lucy Jones is extremely bright and helpful. She works incredibly hard.

Lucy provided very capable assistance on a complex and difficult matter.

Lucy Jones works extremely hard. She puts tremendous energy into cases, which is much appreciated.

Raphael Hogarth does superb written work and is highly skilled.

Raphael Hogarth is extremely clever, with an elegant and precise writing style.

Raphael Hogarth as a junior is very bright and clever.

Tom is always across all the issues and presents very effectively.

Tom Cross is very good. He is good on anything with human rights elements.