Mariel Irvine

Practice Areas

Mariel Irvine is the principal of Mariel Irvine Solicitors, a firm based in London. She founded the practice in 2002 to provide a highly responsive, personal service for clients in the public and private sectors.

Areas of specialism include:-

• Sex and race discrimination

• Redundancy

• Unfair dismissal

• Harassment and bullying at work

• Working Time Regulations

• Pensions

• Data protection

• Drafting of witness statements and preparation of individuals to give evidence

• Breach of contract

• TUPE

• Whistleblowing

• Trade Union law

• Statutory interpretation of legislation

• Drafting of amendments to legislation

Corporate executives come to her on word of mouth recommendations for advice on how to instigate and progress exit negotiations. Hedge funds, City banks and multinational groups of companies refer their executives to her for independent advice on redundancy situations, and to negotiate settlement agreements and exit packages. She has recently successfully negotiated a settlement agreement for a top executive in a multi-national company.

Mariel advises and represents the Prison Governors’ Association, the Police Superintendents’ Association and the Chief Police Officers’ Staff Association and their members on a wide range of employment related issues.

Seven police staff associations instructed her in a number of cases concerning the Government’s reform of public service pensions, including judicial review proceedings arising out of its unlawful consultation on pension reform, following the Court of Appeal’s findings of discrimination in McCloud and Sargeant.

Mariel was also instructed in judicial review proceedings against the Government arising out of the police pay award for 2022 - 2023.

She is currently defending a claim for unlawful exclusion from trade union membership.

Career

Mariel founded the practice after some years as a partner in an Insurance Litigation firm in the City.

Professional Memberships

Law Society

Publications

A Practical Guide to Enforcing Data Protection Rights and Compensation for Data Breaches (2023), Law Brief Publishing

A Practical Guide to Vicarious Liability (2018), Law Brief Publishing

A Practical Guide to the Scrap Metal Dealers' Act 2013 (2019), Law Brief Publishing