Paul Gilroy KC

Practice Areas

Paul Gilroy is a specialist Employment Tribunal practitioner who is instructed in cases of the greatest value, complexity, and sensitivity. His Tribunal practice spans the full range of workplaces, from local and central government, the NHS, commerce and industry to the professions and academia.

Paul Gilroy has extensive High Court experience, with a particular emphasis in the following areas:

• Disputes relating to unlawful competition involving executive departures, team moves, restrictive covenants, garden leave, confidential information, applications for injunctive relief (including springboard relief and search order applications), pre-action disclosure and speedy trials.

• Disputes concerning deferred remuneration, bonuses (including ‘discretionary’ bonuses), share options, deferred remuneration and other employment benefits.

• High value wrongful dismissal claims including breach of fiduciary duty.

• Disputes in relation to liquidated damages and penalty clauses.

• Pursuing and defending actions for declaratory relief (eg trade unions v corporations).

• High Court proceedings concerning trade unions including applications for injunctive relief to restrain strike action.

• Class actions including claims concerning the incorporation of the terms of collective agreements into individual contracts of employment.

Paul Gilroy is renowned for his sports law practice, covering advisory work, litigation and all regulatory aspects of sport. He has extensive experience of issues relating to selection/non-selection, anti-doping and safeguarding in sport. His football practice covers the High Court and arbitration proceedings, principally FA Rule K8 matters and proceedings before the FA Premier League Managers Arbitration Tribunal.