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Band 4
About
Provided by Betsan Criddle KC
Practice Areas
All areas of employment and discrimination law and professional discipline, including High Court contractual disputes, industrial action injunctions and judicial review proceedings. Recent highlights include: R (ASLEF) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade [2023] EWHC 1781 (Admin) (quashing the statutory repeal of the prohibition on using agency workers to cover for strikers); Miles v DVSA [2023] IRLR 630 (whether belief about Covid-19 risks to health unreasonable in determining disability); Burn v Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust [2022] ICR 492 (whether there is an implied term of fairness in the conduct of disciplinary proceedings in an employment contract); Page v NHS Trust Development Authority [2021] ICR 941 (first appellate case on the distinction between manifestation of belief and its consequences); Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall v Town (appellate consideration of the distinction between pregnancy discrimination and health and safety) and PF v DBS [2020] UKUT 256 (AAC) (test case on the scope of the Upper Tribunal’s power to interfere with DBS’ findings of fact on appeal).
Career
MA (Hons) Law, St John's College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar 2002.
Professional Memberships
ELA, ELBA, ILS, ARDL.
Publications
Employment Precedents and Company Law Documents (Sweet & Maxwell); Labour Law Highlights (Institute of Employment Rights); Employment Tribunal Procedure (LAG).
Personal
Fluent Welsh speaker and able to conduct litigation through the medium of Welsh.
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