About

Provided by DAC Beachcroft LLP

This team is the largest specialist employment team in the region. In recent years we won Yorkshire Employment Team of the Year twice, and recognised as a leading employment team in the region. Our offering and experience is unrivalled:

• At the forefront of advising significant employers on issues relating to Covid-19 including advice to the NHS on all Covid employment issues, advising a globally recognised brand on furlough, store closures and safely returning staff to work which was highly reported in the press

Appointed to the panel for easyJet and Sainsbury’s for employment advice

• Advising Royal Mail on the leading Agency Worker Regulations litigation (the Kocur cases) – the key Agency Worker Regulations case law in the UK

• Leading lawyers to independent health providers and the NHS

• A dedicated Employment Practices Liability ("EPL") insurance team (led nationally by Louise Bloomfield) acting for most household name insurers including Zurich, Chubb, Axa XL and Aviva

What are known for

Contentious and non-contentious employment law, including executive disputes, contracts, policies & severance terms, disciplinary & discrimination issues, industrial action, and conducts complex and multi-day litigation in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Senior exits and complex litigation.

Advising corporates on all aspects of employment law, including TUPE, restructuring, industrial relations and restrictive covenants.

Advice in relation to complex NHS matters.

Chambers Review

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Employment - Yorkshire: South and West

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What the Team is Known For

DAC Beachcroft is adept at advising across the full range of employment matters for high-profile clients in the healthcare, insurance, retail and logistics industries. The team possesses significant experience handling sensitive employment litigation relating to claims of harassment and discrimination. The firm has additional strength in TUPE and trade union matters.

Work Highlights

  • DAC Beachcroft advised a national NHS organisation in relation to the transfer out of various functions and hundreds of staff into 42 NHS Integrated Care Boards.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Louise Bloomfield
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Louise Bloomfield is a well-regarded practitioner who heads the Leeds-based employment practice at DAC Beachcroft. She has considerable expertise in handling sensitive and complex discrimination, whistle-blowing and unfair dismissal claims, as well as advising on industrial relations issues.

Louise really knows how to apply the law commercially to our often complex issues. Her advice is clear, focused and relevant. She is very responsive and always available.

Louise knows our business exceptionally well. She takes everything in her stride, is thorough and diligent, and asks great questions.

Louise is very, very good.

Louise is great - very knowledgeable and very polished. I would highly recommend her.

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Anjali Sharma
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Up and Coming

Anjali Sharma is a partner in the employment team at DAC Beachcroft based in Leeds. She works for large corporate clients, providing comprehensive employment law advice alongside her specialist knowledge in insurance matters.

Anjali is extremely responsive and prudent in her advice.

Anjali is amazing.

Suki Chahal
Associates to watch

Suki Chahal advises employers in the private and public sectors on a range of employment matters. She is valued for her particular expertise in equal pay litigation, as well as for her ability in complex matters for NHS clients.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Employment

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Louise Bloomfield
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Anjali Sharma
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Up and Coming
Suki Chahal
Associates to watch

Members

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Anjali Sharma

Hilary Larter

James Rhodes

Zoe Thomas

Clients

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BT plc

Care UK

DHL

Dixons Carphone

HSS Hire

Royal Mail

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Unilever

Zurich Insurance

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