Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
2

Band 2

Employment

North East

13 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Litigation

North East

4 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Christopher Graham

UK

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Chris has almost 20 years’ experience of advising commercial and public sector organisations on all aspects of employment law. He has always conducted his own advocacy, representing employers before the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the High Court as well as the Employment Tribunal. He has a very broad range of experience involving almost all applications before the Employment Tribunal and has particular expertise in business protection, unlawful discrimination, outsourcing (TUPE 2006) and industrial action.

As well as advising on all aspects of employment law, Chris frequently provides industry-specific training in both the private and the public sectors. ACAS regularly rely on Chris to provide elements of training to their own advisors.

Legal 500 recently rated the employment team very highly, stating "Christopher Graham acted as advocate for Atkins before the Croyden Employment Tribunal in its defence against whistleblowing and disability discrimination allegations. Graham, who heads the employment practice, has extensive experience representing employers before employment appeal tribunals and the High Court." 

Chris also has substantial experience in protecting businesses from unlawful competition, misuse of confidential information and fraud. He usually runs a number of high court actions for employers involving injunctions to enforce restrictive covenants to prevent database misuse and to recover diverted funds. Chris has a particular interest in technology and has recently secured a first injunction allowing for imaging of the defendant's servers and systems. Chris is experienced in freezing orders and contempt applications as well as director's duties more generally.

Recent experience

• Successfully resisting multiple claims under the TUPE Regulations 2006 for an outsourced contractor under a local authority framework agreement following a two week hearing. Such a decision develops the law on fragmentation in the context of framework agreements and, on appeal, will change the law relating to outsourcing

• Project managing large programmes for redundancy and the transfer of almost 3000 employees following a changeover of a contractor providing services to the government

• Successfully defending multiple claims under discretionary bonus schemes, resisting complaints for enhanced redundancy terms and managing changes to final salary and other types of pension scheme

• Successfully bidding for an exclusive contract for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to provide all employment services.

• Advising a range of new clients including Balfour Beatty Limited, Cape Plc and Whessoe Oil & Gas Limited

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Litigation - North East

2
Band 2
Individual Editorial

Christopher Graham has a busy practice as a litigator, handling contractual and shareholder disputes among other matters.


Employment - North East

2
Band 2
Individual Editorial

Christopher Graham advises employers and senior employees on employment disputes before the Employment Tribunal and higher courts. He also provides employers with redundancy and TUPE advice.

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