Joanne Connolly

Practice Areas

Joanne Connolly is pleased to act for both respondents and claimants. Her practice focuses on the higher-value, more complex, sensitive or multi-week discrimination, transfer of undertakings and whistle-blowing claims or claims with additional difficult or more technical points whether because of EU law, human rights arguments or some other unusual dimension. Her practice also includes high profile / sensitive unfair dismissal claims. She regularly handles cases involving groups of workers. She is generally accustomed to the pressure of cases where there is a great deal at stake whether in terms of reputation and publicity, level of compensation, seniority of stakeholders and witnesses or number of employees affected. Her work incorporates employment disputes in all areas including the NHS, education, banking, local government, various regulated industries and the legal profession as well as business generally. Joanne is regularly instructed by in-house solicitors as well as those in private practice. She is experienced at appellate levels and has appeared in a number of reported cases. She also has substantial experience of acting as a representative in mediations.

Career

LLB (Nottingham). Called to the Bar in 1992. Awarded Council of Legal Education Studentship and Jules Thorn scholarship. Appointed Fee Paid Employment Judge November 2010.

Professional Memberships

The Employment Lawyers Association.

Employment Law Bar Association