About

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The Mourant Jersey Employment team provides a full-service offering, acting across a broad range of industry sectors and particularly well regarded for expertise in advising institutional clients in professional service industries. Such businesses are complex, with a number of key stakeholders involved on any matter. 


The inimitable breadth of experience across the team (including from our pension and regulatory experts) enables its provision of practical, high-quality advice. All key team members are Jersey-qualified lawyers and have unparalleled expertise within the market. With a number of highly experienced Jersey Advocates, we have unrivalled contentious expertise across the team.


We have a loyal, established client base across a variety of sectors that values the quality of our advice and industry knowledge. Our reputation garners instructions from significant new clients regularly. In 2023, new clients came from a range of industries including private equity, hedge funds, wealth management, transportation and the third sector. 


Routine work includes:


  • Employment advisory (internal processes and terminations)
  • Corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions)
  • Restructuring and redundancy
  • Contentious exits
  • Business licensing and immigration permissions
  • Consultancy/secondment agreements
  • Contractual/policy documentation


More complex work includes employment tribunal litigation, alleged criminal activity by employees and partnership disputes.


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Offshore: Employment - Jersey

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What the Team is Known For

Mourant is renowned for its work on both contentious and non-contentious employment law including restructuring, union disputes and tribunal claims. Its clients include domestic and international groups, as well as senior-level executives. The firm enjoys a growing reputation for acting as employment counsel on mergers and acquisitions. It offers additional capabilities in regulatory compliance including GDPR.

Work Highlights

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  • Mourant represented a public transport operator in a successful defence of a claim for unfair dismissal.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Carla Benest
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Carla Benest
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Carla Benest is the head of Jersey employment at Mourant. She operates a well-respected employment practice in which she advises a variety of clients including asset managers and trust companies on the full spectrum of employment issues.

Carla is a very practical and commercial adviser with a great understanding of the business.

Carla is unfailingly practical, pragmatic and cuts to the heart of the issue with ease.

Carla Benest has a wealth of knowledge and always offers excellent support and guidance.

Laurie Child
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Laurie Child
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Up and Coming

Laurie Child has a burgeoning disputes-focused practice but is also capable of advising clients on non-contentious matters.

Laurie always delivers promptly and to a high standard.

He considers the bigger picture and offers pragmatic advice to support the best outcome.

Laurie Chlid is very pragmatic in his approach and provides a very good balance of advice and support.

Katie Phillips
Katie Phillips
Associates to watch

Katie Phillips is a senior associate noted for her impressive employment practice. She regularly assists with discrimination matters and tribunal claims.

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Carla Benest
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Carla Benest
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Laurie Child
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Laurie Child
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Up and Coming
Katie Phillips
Katie Phillips
Associates to watch

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